[Updated at 12:31 p.m ET] The suspect in Colorado shooting case has been charged 24 counts of first-degree murder.
Holmes was charged twice for each victim who was killed.
There are three different classes of murder charges in the state of Colorado. One set of charges is because Holmes is accused of shooting after deliberation, referring to the planning of the attack. The second set of charges is because he is accused of having an attitude of universal malice, manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.
Holmes was also charged with 116 counts of attempted murder, one count that is a sentence enhancer because of violence and one count for possession of explosive devices.
Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers said last Monday that deciding whether to pursue the death penalty would involve input from victims and their relatives. A capital case would require a finding of either extreme indifference or deliberation.
[Updated at 12:17 p.m ET] James Holmes, the man accused of opening fire this month inside an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater, has been officially charged with a total of 142 counts, including first degree murder in relation to the shooting.
[Posted at 11:30 a.m. ET] The man accused of opening fire this month inside an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater will have his second court appearance Monday, when he is to face formal charges.
James Holmes is suspected of killing 12 people and wounding 58 during a Batman film premiere on July 20. He is also being held in connection with the subsequent discovery of his booby-trapped apartment, which authorities think he rigged before the massacre in the Century Aurora 16 multiplex.
Holmes is to be led Monday morning through an underground tunnel that connects the courthouse to the Arapahoe County Jail, where he has been held in isolation without bail.
At his court appearance, which starts at 11:30 a.m. ET, he is expected to face 12 charges of first-degree murder, charges of attempted first-degree murder and charges related to the booby-trapped apartment.
In his initial court appearance last Monday, the 24-year-old former doctoral candidate - his hair dyed various shades of orange - appeared dazed and did not speak.
Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers said last Monday that deciding whether to pursue the death penalty would involve input from victims and their relatives. A capital case would require a finding of either extreme indifference or deliberation.
Authorities have remained silent about a possible motive in the case.
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you know what...if it is my taxpayer money that is going to defend/prosecute this nutjob, then at the very least the camera should be in the courtroom/death chamber....If I'm paying, i'm wathcing....burn in hell "joker"
If this coward was black it would be Obama's fault. Then perhaps if Romney had another son, he'd look like James Holmes.
if this guy was black Al Charlton and the rest of the black community would be on his side.
*Sharpton
What's the need to turn this into a politcal issue? Black, or White the only person to blame for this is the one who comitted the crime...
I'm sorry, but I'm tired of all the bleeding hearts. Everyone does NOT deserve a fair trial. He was caught at the scene, in the act. It is an absolute waste of taxpayer money and time to have a trial. He only deserves 30 minutes to appear before a judge for sentencing. Just like his victims, he has no right to life. I don't care if he's crazy or not. End it.
I need to clarify something - his victims had a right to life, which he took away in one monsterous act. With that, the monster himself lost all right to life. He is hideous.
You'd be sorrier if our justice system was not based on the "rule of law" and instead went to the posse of gatherers that saw him out in the parking lot as the police arrived.
The Rule of Law is to do away with people lynching others on the spot. And you don't get the luxury of choosing when your country gets to be one when it suits you, and the other when guilt isn't "so clear".
Look up the definition of a Republic, and why it is superior to a Democratic State. Notice I did not declare the US to be, because we're some convoluted mix which isn't purely one or the either.
I agree 100%. For some reason I dont think the founding fathers wrote the law for this situation. Has to be different when your caught red handed, with literally, the smoking gun. Do it quick and save the taxpayers money. Im sure there would be a lot of donars for the one bullet needed to go into his head to kill him. He needs to die, painfully
Bleeding heart, my rear end. It's the freakin' LAW, Sparky, and we live in a nation supported by LAW. Get it? You and I don't have to like it. Maybe they do things differently where you come from, but this is America.
He's going to commit suicide at some point.
Good!!!!!!!!!!!
Then his family would sue the police for not watching him and win millions!!
Don't send him to death row! Let him stay with the general prison population. Prisoners love to torment, uh, I mean, "take care" of a child killer.
I can bet he thinks Jose "the bozo" Baez would be the perfect defense lawyer for him.
Just like in the baby murderer Casey Anthony's case, he will throw so much confusion and blurr the line between reality, fiction and speculation to the point that 12 fools might not see right from wrong and acquit him.
I wish we could just bring back gladiator games and have a fight to the death.. I would pay to see people on death row kill each other because its what they deserve.
His is a converted memeber of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Check it out
This will never be a ending current of events. This will HAPPEN again and again and again.
Be ready America more death to come. God help us all!
People, please read the book Medication Madness. This is about the dangers of mood altering medications, specially, on young people. My guess is that this person is under some pill spell. The pharmaceutical companies should be on trial, too.
If Rush Limbaugh had a son, he'd look like James Holmes.
Until the National Rifle Association can be forced to "shut down" their ugly advertisements and their websites full of suggestions of gun violence, we will never prevent a tragedy like Auora, Colorado!! Guns kill people, and ruin the lives of thousands of others, day by day, and year by year. When is America going to step up to the plate and say "Enough is Enough!!! It is far past time!
If Dick Cheyney had a son, he'd look like James Holmes.
COME ON CNN!!!!! The poor father of a son killed by this man gives you an interview and then you have the audacity to place the beautiful picture of his son on your homepage next to the much more prominent picture of his killer. PLEASE ETHICALLY CORRECT YOUR HOMEPAGE!!!!
i hope they make him keep his orange through this whole process.
Put him in general population. He can play the tickle monster in the showers with that stupid orange hair.