aurora shooting
Alexandria Ferlo
History 101
November 18th 2013
Aurora Colorado Shooting July 20, 2013
The event I chose to talk about is the Aurora Colorado movie theatre shooting on July 20, 2012. The shooting killed 12 people and injured 58 others. James Holmes who is now 25 years old and was a former doctoral student in neuroscience. Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reasoning of insanity to his charged of murdering 12 people and attempting to murder dozens more. Holmes is currently awaiting formal arraignment for 166 charges, including murder, attempted murder and weapons offenses. And 14 people have recently filed legal documents indicating they are planning to sue Dr. Lynne Fenton, the psychiatrist who treated Holmes, and the University of Colorado Denver, where she worked, for negligence. (cnn.com)
As part of his plea, he has already undergone one court-ordered, independent psychiatric evaluation at the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. Prosecutors in the Aurora movie theater shooting case have filed two motions asking for another psychiatric evaluation of the gunman. Prosecutors rarely ask for second opinions in insanity cases, said Denver defense attorney and legal analyst Dan Recht. (denverpost.com) In a motion filed last week, the lawyers ask that the death penalty be thrown out as an option in the murder case against Holmes. Holmes’s lawyers say the results of a psychiatric evaluation show he is too mentally ill to face the death penalty.
Holmes had a series of meticulously laid traps waiting for first responders, involving jars packed with napalm, blaring music, a remote controlled car, and an improvised tripwire. A thermos full of glycerine hung over a frying pan loaded with oxidizing crystals. One of Holmes's thwarted plots, as outlined by FBI bomb technician Garrett Gumbinner, would've gone like this: A computer programmed to play about a half-hour of silence before launching into some high-volume music would've forced
History 101
November 18th 2013
Aurora Colorado Shooting July 20, 2013
The event I chose to talk about is the Aurora Colorado movie theatre shooting on July 20, 2012. The shooting killed 12 people and injured 58 others. James Holmes who is now 25 years old and was a former doctoral student in neuroscience. Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reasoning of insanity to his charged of murdering 12 people and attempting to murder dozens more. Holmes is currently awaiting formal arraignment for 166 charges, including murder, attempted murder and weapons offenses. And 14 people have recently filed legal documents indicating they are planning to sue Dr. Lynne Fenton, the psychiatrist who treated Holmes, and the University of Colorado Denver, where she worked, for negligence. (cnn.com)
As part of his plea, he has already undergone one court-ordered, independent psychiatric evaluation at the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. Prosecutors in the Aurora movie theater shooting case have filed two motions asking for another psychiatric evaluation of the gunman. Prosecutors rarely ask for second opinions in insanity cases, said Denver defense attorney and legal analyst Dan Recht. (denverpost.com) In a motion filed last week, the lawyers ask that the death penalty be thrown out as an option in the murder case against Holmes. Holmes’s lawyers say the results of a psychiatric evaluation show he is too mentally ill to face the death penalty.
Holmes had a series of meticulously laid traps waiting for first responders, involving jars packed with napalm, blaring music, a remote controlled car, and an improvised tripwire. A thermos full of glycerine hung over a frying pan loaded with oxidizing crystals. One of Holmes's thwarted plots, as outlined by FBI bomb technician Garrett Gumbinner, would've gone like this: A computer programmed to play about a half-hour of silence before launching into some high-volume music would've forced