Timeline: holmes

2015-08-25 06:21:06sentencessite
  • James Holmes appears in court for the sentencing phase in his trial on Monday at Arapahoe County District Court in Centennial, Colo.
2015-08-24 05:15:09sentencessite
  • The three-day hearing gives survivors a chance to share their harrowing stories with the judge, but it won't change Holmes' sentence.
2015-08-24 05:09:11sentencessite
  • Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. will formally sentence Holmes to life on 24 counts of first-degree murder - two for each of those killed.
  • They won't be able to address Holmes directly but rather the judge.
2015-08-24 05:09:11sentencessite
  • At least 100 people may speak at James Holmes' sentencing
2015-08-14 22:50:22sentencessite
  • George Brauchler, lead prosecutor in the case against convicted Colorado theater shooter James Holmes, responds to questions during an interview Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, in Centennial, Colo.
  • Brauchler said that the jury's refusal to sentence Holmes to die for one of the worst massacres in the country's history does not mean the public is growing wary of capital punishment because only a single juror blocked the execution.
  • The lone holdout felt just as strongly that Holmes should get a life sentence as the 11 other jurors believed he should die for the 2012 shooting, District Attorney George Brauchler said, based on prosecution interviews with some of the panel.
  • When it was clear she wouldn't budge, the jurors took a vote, and the holdout told them that if mental illness hadn't been a part of Holmes' defense, she too would have favored a death sentence, Brauchler said.
2015-08-14 22:41:24sentencessite
  • The holdout hasn't come forward to speak with prosecutors, but other jurors have said testimony about Holmes' mental illness persuaded her to show mercy.
2015-08-08 05:55:08sentencessite
  • - James Holmes will spend the rest of his life in prison after at least one juror balked at the possibility of sentencing him to death for the massacre that claimed 12 lives and spawned a gut-wrenching four-month trial.
  • Nine jurors wanted to execute Holmes, but one was steadfastly opposed and two others wavering, a juror told reporters after the verdict was announced.
  • Holmes' mother, Arlene, who had begged jurors to spare his life, leaned her head against her husband's shoulder and began sobbing.
  • In the back, Aurora police officers who responded to the bloody scene of Holmes' attacks began crying.
  • Sandy Phillips, whose daughter Jessica Ghawi was killed by Holmes, shook her head no and then held it in her hands.
  • Ashley Moser, whose 6-year-old daughter died in the attack and who was herself paralyzed by Holmes' bullets, also shook her head and then slowly leaned it against the wheelchair of another paralyzed victim, Caleb Medley.
  • There was never any question during the trial as to whether Holmes was the killer.
  • The verdict was also a setback for District Attorney George Brauchler, who two years ago rejected a plea deal from Holmes' attorney that would have ended the case with life in prison, the same result.
2015-08-08 03:51:00sentencessite
  • One juror told reporters outside court that there was a single juror who refused to give Holmes the death penalty and two others who were wavering.
  • The key issue was Holmes' mental illness.
2015-08-08 02:39:47sentencessite
  • The case could have ended the same way two years ago when Holmes offered to plead guilty if he could avoid the death penalty.
2015-08-08 02:28:12sentencessite
  • Jurors in the Colorado theater shooting have been dismissed after failing to agree on a sentence for gunman James Holmes.
2015-08-08 02:28:12sentencessite
  • The lead prosecutor in the Colorado theater shooting case says he's frustrated that gunman James Holmes didn't get the death penalty, but he praised jurors for doing a "hell of a job."
2015-08-08 02:18:08sentencessite
  • Jurors in the Colorado theater shooting case reached a decision Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, on whether Holmes should be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty.
  • That automatically eliminates the death penalty for Holmes, who blamed his killings of 12 people on mental illness.
  • Jurors also previously moved closer to the death penalty when they quickly determined the heinousness of Holmes' crimes outweighed his mental illness.
2015-08-08 01:18:06sentencessite
  • Jury verdict means James Holmes will spend life behind bars
2015-08-07 03:05:24sentencessite
  • Holmes jurors begin final deliberations: ?Evil? vs. ?mercy?
  • In this image taken from video, defense attorney Tamara Brady, right, gestures during closing arguments in the sentencing phase of the James Holmes trial, in Centennial, Colo., Thursday.
2015-08-03 22:42:43sentencessite
  • Ian Sullivan, the father of Holmes' youngest victim, 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, closed his eyes when her name was read.
  • But Robert Holmes acknowledged that they rarely communicated in the months before the theater attack, and that in his family, emotions just weren't talked about, even though his own father and sister had been hospitalized with mental illness.
2015-08-03 20:02:35sentencessite
  • ? Jurors in the Colorado theatre shooting trial declined to rule out the death penalty Monday as they move toward sentencing James Holmes, finding his defence failed to persuade them to show him mercy.
  • The same jury last month convicted Holmes of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in the July 2012 attack at a suburban Denver movie theatre.
2015-08-03 15:30:44sentencessite
  • Jurors must decide whether there are any reasons, such as Holmes' mental illness and his trouble-free youth, that mean he should be sentenced to life in prison without parole instead of to death.
  • If jurors unanimously agree that such factors outweigh the heinousness of the July 2012 attack that killed 12 people and injured 70 others, Holmes would be sentenced to a life term.
2015-08-03 15:29:11sentencessite
  • The jury in the Colorado theater shooting trial resumed deliberating Monday whether to keep the death penalty on the table for gunman James Holmes.
  • The same jury rejected Holmes' insanity defense and convicted him of 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and weapons charges last month.
2015-07-29 02:27:55sentencessite
  • James Holmes in 2013.
2015-07-29 02:27:55sentencessite
  • Defence attorney Tamara Brady: "Is James Holmes your son?"
  • Robert Holmes: "Yes he is."
2015-07-29 01:07:08sentencessite
  • (AP) - The father of Colorado theater gunman James Holmes said he never suspected his son was mentally ill before the 2012 attack, but he and his wife became increasingly concerned about him when he stopped returning their phone calls.
  • "He told us he loved us, but I could see there was something really wrong with him," Robert Holmes said.
  • Robert Holmes said he has seen James Holmes in jail only three times because his son typically does not allow visitors.
2015-07-29 01:07:08sentencessite
  • A photo showing James Holmes is displayed on a monitor.
  • She told them James Holmes was dropping out of his prestigious neuroscience graduate school program.
  • Immediately after the testimony, the defense showed the now-familiar mug shot of James Holmes smirking at the camera.
2015-07-28 22:14:21sentencessite
  • The father of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes said he didn't know his son suffered from mental illness until he killed 12 people at a Batman movie.
  • On the first point, the defense brought back the same court-appointed psychiatrist who found Holmes was legally sane during the attack, this time to say that it was severe mental illness that drove Holmes to kill.
2015-07-28 22:14:21sentencessite
  • Robert Holmes said he wasn't aware of mental illness in the family until investigators researched it in preparation for this trial.
  • "I assumed he might be depressed," Robert Holmes said.
2015-07-28 22:14:21sentencessite
  • Father of James Holmes thought 'he might be depressed'