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   In article , stank@aol.com says...   
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   > DENVER ?  Colorado theater shooting defendant James Holmes must   
   > undergo a second psychiatric evaluation at the state mental   
   > hospital because the first was "incomplete and inadequate," the   
   > judge ruled Wednesday.   
   >   
   > Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. agreed with   
   > prosecutors that the first evaluation, conducted last summer,   
   > was flawed. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, and   
   > Holmes' fate likely hangs on whether the jury decides he was   
   > sane or insane at the time of the shooting.   
   >   
   > If jurors determine Holmes was insane, he would be acquitted and   
   > sent indefinitely to the state hospital. But if they decide he   
   > was sane, he could be convicted and sentenced either to be   
   > executed or spend life in prison without parole.   
   >   
   > Prosecutors had asked to have doctors of their choosing conduct   
   > the new evaluation, but Samour denied that request, ordering   
   > that the second evaluation be conducted by the state hospital,   
   > but by a different doctor than last time.   
   >   
   > Holmes is charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 in a   
   > 2012 attack on a suburban Denver movie theater. He pleaded not   
   > guilty by reason of insanity.   
   >   
   > His lawyers have acknowledged he was the shooter but said in a   
   > court filing he was "in the throes of a psychotic episode."   
   > Colorado law defines insanity as the inability to tell right   
   > from wrong.   
   >   
   > The verdict on insanity is up to the jury, but the conclusion of   
   > the state hospital's evaluation is critical evidence in that   
   > decision.   
   >   
   > The decision to order another evaluation means another delay in   
   > the trial, although how long is uncertain.   
   >   
   > Holmes, now 26, is charged with planning and carrying out the   
   > assault on 421 people watching a midnight showing of the Batman   
   > movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in the Denver suburb of Aurora. He   
   > is charged with more than 160 counts of murder and attempted   
   > murder.   
   >   
   > Police also say he rigged his apartment with potentially deadly   
   > bombs to distract first responders.   
   >   
   > Holmes had been a promising student in high school and college,   
   > and in 2011 he enrolled in a Ph.D. program in neuroscience at   
   > the University of Colorado, Denver. But he quit the program a   
   > few weeks before the shootings. Prosecutors say he had failed a   
   > key test.   
   >   
   > http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/19/judge-orders-new-mental-   
   > exam-in-colo-theater-shooting/   
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