Aurora Theater Trial

CU News Corps CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Tomorrow, one of the prosecution’s key witnesses will roll into the courtroom in her power wheelchair and testify. Ashley Moser arguably suffered the most of all of the theater survivors. She not only lost her 6 year old daughter, Veronica (the only child killed...

We will miss her. She had class. Always dressed in proper attire (nix on the shorts and Harley Davidson shirt , third row juror). She paid attention. She took her job as one of 24 jurors in the batman theater shooting trial like the privilege to serve that it is...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The jury of James Holmes' peers grew smaller again today. Judge Carlos Samour Jr. excused another juror from the original pool of 24 today. This juror's removal marks the second dismissal this week, the fifth since the trial began in April. Juror 276 works as a school...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The jury of James Holmes’ peers grew smaller again today. Judge Carlos Samour Jr. excused another juror from the original pool of 24 today. This juror’s removal marks the second dismissal this week, the fifth since the trial began in April. Juror 276 works as a school...

Bonnie Kate Zogbhi (center) with her husband Max (right) and mother (left). Zogbhi was shot in the leg in the Aurora theater shooting. CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The entire courtroom took notice of Bonnie Kate Zoghbi. Outfitted in a bright orange skirt, a yellow cardigan and a wreath of flowers on...

We started with 24 jurors. We now have 20. Of 19 original women, four have been excused. (Why all women?) There are still five men. It’s strange to look at the three rows of seats and see empty grey chairs. This latest juror, number 901, is a graduate student in...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — He said only fools would blame his murders on bad grades. “Most fools will misinterpret correlation for causation, namely relationship and work failure as causes,” Aurora theater shooter James Holmes wrote in his infamous spiral notebok. But Monday’s court proceedings indicated otherwise. The prosecution screened surveillance footage...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — At first, the Gmail chats between Aurora theater shooter James Holmes and his then-girlfriend Gargi Datta were innocuous enough. Starting in October 2012, the pair flirtatiously chatted about gaming, school and lab rotations. Their typed conversations, full of pop culture references, are peppered with emoticons and sexual...

Toews suffered gunshot wounds to his head as a result of the shooting. While he was on the stand, the court displayed the picture of his head wound from the hospital that night. Dr. Lynne Fenton took the witness stand today, visibly shaking as she recounted her seven psychiatric appointments...

We’re down to 21 out of an original 24 jurors. In a move that delayed the trial a day, three of the 19 women on the panel were kicked off the Batman movie theater shooting trial last week. I think it’s a good thing. One of them, a mother of...