BREAKING: Aurora Shooter James Holmes Guilty of Murder in First Degree

By Dan Zimmerman

Despite the orange hair and the vacant expressions, a jury has found Aurora theater mass murderer James Holmes guilty of murder in the first degree. Jurors were apparently unpersuaded by his attorneys’ arguments that he was schizophrenic and suffering a psychotic episode when he killed 12 people and injured another 70 during a screening of Batman on July 20, 2012 in a designated gun-free Cinemark theater. It’s worth nothing that Holmes . . .

was force-fed meds to “protect other prisoners.” His lawyers argued that the state did so made their client appear sane – so that he could be pronounced mentally fit enough to receive a death sentence. Anyone who’s read his “manifesto” or followed revelations about his pre-mass murder behavior might disagree with that assessment. But the jury decided otherwise.

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