CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A union plumber, a school teacher and a survivor of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre were among the 19 women and five men chosen to serve as jurors in the death penalty trial of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes.
The 12 jurors and 12 alternates were chosen Tuesday after a selection process that began Jan. 20, and which experts said was among the largest and most complicated in U.S. history.
Holmes is charged with killing 12 people and wounding 70 others in the July 2012 attack in suburban Denver. His attorneys don't dispute that he pulled the trigger, but say he was in the grips of a psychotic episode when he slipped into the packed movie theater and opened fire. Read more...
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