Ten Executions Gone Shockingly Wrong
James Holmes, Alleged Theater Assassin, Rigged His Apartment to Kill
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 6:21 am
Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: The brilliant, apparently deranged grad-school student booby-trapped his home in a way that was intended to explode if anyone entered. How did cops manage not to set the place ablaze after a massacre at a nearby theater? Westword has the story.
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Exactly, and nobody is saying it was a breakdown. Quite the opposite. Esp with all the premeditiation. Insanity seems his only defense at this point. From what I have read. The blood tests are back and he had nothing in his system, legal or illegal. Or otherwise traceable.So... there you have it. Seems that he wasn't cutting it academically and that made him snap. Best they have so far.
Leah, and since you are expert on low standards of competency, we hope you will enlighten us all as to the correct outcome for this case.
Yeh they cant exactly say it was a mental breakdown...that lasted months and months while he planned this.
He is supposed to be arraigned on the 30th. It'll take that long to add up all the charges for this selfish little prick. Read that insanity is just about the only defense he'll be able to use. Thankfully, the standard for competency is low. I am sure they will have a psych eval and go to town with all the diff mental illnesses he has but I don't see how they can negate the premeditation.
To answer the question, even without clicking the related article: because they're not dumbfucks. I'm just glad nobody was hurt getting in this guy's place, JESUS CHRIST, talk about a minefield! This guy is bonkers to the extreme.
