An , urging jurors to remember that he suffers from mental illness.
“The psychosis is what caused James Holmes to shoot the people in the Century 16 theater,” attorney Tamara Brady told jurors during closing arguments in the second penalty phase of Holmes’s murder trial.
“It was not about notoriety. It was not about hatred. It was about the delusion,” Brady said.
While the defense was giving their closing statements a woman in the courtroom began yelling, claiming to be the biological mother and saying “they took him away” from her.
“Don’t kill him, don’t kill him, it’s not his fault,” she yelled as she was being escorted out of the courtroom.
The judge later told the jury to ignore the outburst.
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Denver firefighters are working Thursday to for the past several weeks.
“Because the water has been flowing so much, we haven’t been able to put divers in the water,” said Lt. Mike Pylar, spokesman for the city’s fire department.
Pylar says all six vehicles are in the area of Platte River Drive and Florida Avenue.
A seventh vehicle is submerged in the river near Sports Authority Field at Mile High, officials say, and fire crews are hoping to remove it from the river soon. Pylar said there could be even more that authorities haven’t found yet.
Pylar said a few of the vehicles found in the area of Platte River Drive are believed to have been stolen and dumped in the South Platte. The owner of a Jeep found out it was stolen Sunday when Denver police found it sitting in the river, police said.
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A Denver Police Department officer will be inside a holding cell because city officials violated his rights to due process during the disciplinary process.
Patrolman James Medina appealed his termination, and Civil Service Commission hearing officer Terry Tomsick ruled Wednesday that he instead should serve a 60-day suspension and be on probation for two years, according to Tomsick’s written order on the case.
Medina, who was fired in March, also will be owed back pay to June 3, Tomsick’s order said.
Tomsick found sufficient evidence that Medina had violated five department policies, including inappropriate force and duty to report use of force.
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The Buttermilk Estate in Aspen is an ultra-modern property that provides amenities such as a roof-top pool, a media room and easy access to skiing in the Rockies.
The 14,929-square-foot home was built in 2013 by Kaegebein Fine Home Building and has been lived in by one family. .
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