Judge William Sylvester ruled in favor of prosecutors to have access to the school records of alleged Colorado shooter James Egan Holmes.
Prosecutors are hoping that the 24-year-old's school records will provide some insight on the mental condition of the Ph.D. drop out. While defense maintains that Holmes suffers from an "unknown mental illness," prosecutors are trying to show that the "Dark Knight Rises" shootout was not a spontaneous mental trigger, but a pre-planned attack by a sane mind frustrated over his performance in the neuroscience program.
Early on in the case, prosecutors showed that the time Holmes started collecting weapons coincided with his deteriorating grades and eventual dropping out of the Ph.D. program.
Defense maintains that access to the records is merely a "fishing expedition," and cannot reveal anything significant to the case.
Recently, Prosecutors have added 14 additional charges against Holmes. Prosecutors have also amended five of the other charges pitted against him in a Thursday hearing. Holmes has already been charged with 12 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder.
Currently, the alleged shooter Holmes is being held in a detention facility of Arapahoe County in solitary confinement. Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers told News Day that she is considering pursuing the death penalty, but only after consulting with the victims and their families.
On July 20, at a midnight screening of the cult-inducing Dark Knight Rises film at a movie house in Aurora, Colorado, Holmes, opened fire killing 12 people and injuring 59 others. He was arrested that morning and placed in custody.
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