CENTENNIAL, Colo.—Colorado theater shooting defendant James Holmes will return to court in late January for a hearing on prosecutors’ request that he undergo additional psychiatric examination.
The judge set the new date Wednesday. The hearing was to take place this week, but the judge postponed it after saying the defense had made contradictory statements about its request.
Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in the 2012 attack.
He underwent a sanity evaluation in the summer but the findings haven’t been made public.
Defense lawyers, meanwhile, said they haven’t decided whether to appeal a New York State Court of Appeals ruling that New York-based Fox News reporter Jana Winter doesn’t have to testify on a side issue in the case.
