[h=3]By ANA CAMPOY[/h]
Colorado prosecutors planned to file formal charges Monday against James Eagan Holmes, the former neuroscience student accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at an Aurora movie theater. Ashby Jones has details on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
The charges could put the 24-year-old former doctoral student in prison for the rest of his life if he is convicted.
Mr. Holmes appeared listless and unshaven, with bright orange-red hair, and spoke only once during the hearing, answering "yes" when the judge asked him whether he wanted to waive his right to a preliminary hearing within 35 days. He is being held in an Arapahoe County jail pending trial.
Prosecutors didn't disclose whether they would seek the death penalty against Mr. Holmes, a legal but rare form of punishment in Colorado that would be applicable in this case. They had previously indicated they would take several months to consider that possibility and would discuss it with victims and their families.
Mr. Holmes was arrested outside the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises," still clad in body armor and armed with several weapons, including a semiautomatic rifle. Authorities say he started shooting at the audience shortly after the film began after entering through one of the theater's emergency doors.
[h=3]The Colorado Shooting[/h]James Holmes, the 24-year-old suspect in the the Colorado movie theater shooting rampage, will be formally charged. Follow streaming updates on the case.
[h=3]Related Reading[/h]Read the complaint posted on the Colorado state-judiciary website.
He had been a graduate student in the neuroscience program at the University of Colorado but told the school he was withdrawing in June without giving a reason or completing the necessary paperwork. He was a patient of a psychiatrist at the school, according to court documents, and sent her a notebook that a law-enforcement official has said contained drawings of the shooting spree.
Mr. Holmes's lawyers tried to suppress that material as evidence, arguing that its contents are protected communications between a patient and a doctor, and complained that the government leaked the information last week to the news media.
Carol Chambers, the district attorney for Colorado's 18th Judicial District, has denied the defense's claims. A court order limits pretrial publicity.
Write to Ana Campoy at [email protected]
Colorado prosecutors planned to file formal charges Monday against James Eagan Holmes, the former neuroscience student accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at an Aurora movie theater. Ashby Jones has details on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.The charges could put the 24-year-old former doctoral student in prison for the rest of his life if he is convicted.
Mr. Holmes appeared listless and unshaven, with bright orange-red hair, and spoke only once during the hearing, answering "yes" when the judge asked him whether he wanted to waive his right to a preliminary hearing within 35 days. He is being held in an Arapahoe County jail pending trial.
Prosecutors didn't disclose whether they would seek the death penalty against Mr. Holmes, a legal but rare form of punishment in Colorado that would be applicable in this case. They had previously indicated they would take several months to consider that possibility and would discuss it with victims and their families.
Mr. Holmes was arrested outside the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises," still clad in body armor and armed with several weapons, including a semiautomatic rifle. Authorities say he started shooting at the audience shortly after the film began after entering through one of the theater's emergency doors.
[h=3]The Colorado Shooting[/h]James Holmes, the 24-year-old suspect in the the Colorado movie theater shooting rampage, will be formally charged. Follow streaming updates on the case.
[h=3]Related Reading[/h]Read the complaint posted on the Colorado state-judiciary website.
He had been a graduate student in the neuroscience program at the University of Colorado but told the school he was withdrawing in June without giving a reason or completing the necessary paperwork. He was a patient of a psychiatrist at the school, according to court documents, and sent her a notebook that a law-enforcement official has said contained drawings of the shooting spree.
Mr. Holmes's lawyers tried to suppress that material as evidence, arguing that its contents are protected communications between a patient and a doctor, and complained that the government leaked the information last week to the news media.
Carol Chambers, the district attorney for Colorado's 18th Judicial District, has denied the defense's claims. A court order limits pretrial publicity.
Write to Ana Campoy at [email protected]