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   On 24 Feb 2014, Bill Steele  posted some   
   news:QeednY6P5vCaLJbOnZ2dnUVZ_sadnZ2d@earthlink.com:   
      
   > On 2/19/14, 9:44 PM, Stan wrote:   
   >> 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/   
   >>   
   >   
   > Of you included the date we might notice that this is old news. Just   
   > give us your new opinions.   
      
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