James Holmes Update: Colo. theater shooting expected to enter plea today

[Jazzy]

James Holmes, the accused gunman in the deadly Colorado theater shooting last July, is expected to enter a plea in court today. It comes nearly eight months after he went on a shooting rampage that killed 12 people during a screening of the latest Batman movie.

If Holmes, 25, pleads not guilty by reason of insanity, he would be examined by doctors at the state mental hospital and could be given truth serum under a court order issued Monday to help determine whether he is legally insane.



Holmes faces multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in the July 20, 2012 attack that killed 12 and injured 70 during a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in the Denver suburb of Aurora.



Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester said Holmes could be required to submit to a narcoanalytic interview, a decades-old process in which patients are given drugs to lower their inhibition. Academic studies showed that the technique involved the use of sodium amytal and pentothal, sometimes called truth serum.



In an advisory that Holmes would have to sign if he enters an insanity plea, Sylvester didn't specify what type of drugs would be used but said the examination could include medically appropriate ones.



Sylvester said Holmes also could be given a polygraph examination as part of the evaluation.



After reading a draft of the advisory, Holmes' lawyers objected, filing documents opposing the technique. They said a narcoanalytic interview and a polygraph would violate their client's rights.

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Violate their client's rights? What about the right to live that he took from 12 innocent people. I think a firing squad would be appropriate justice.

 

[Evil Eye]

I always think this is a bit weird. If you kill 12 people like this, you're obviously not quite right in the head...