He is working hard on that look & maintaining it.

I sincerely wish they'd stop using any photos of him where he's staring straight at the camera. The man is clearly disturbed; we don't need to be reminded of that so vividly with each article.

That being said, disturbed or not, he KNEW what he did was wrong. Mailing the notebook was a last cry for help of some sort.

How convenient for the University that the mailroom was "unable" to deliver the package to the campus psychiatrist. I smell a LIE.

I agree he should be in a hospital, as a lab rat for experiments with a high fatality rate.

Death penalty , only cure & only way to make sure this man never gets out to continue he spree. Only down fall is the expenses due to attorney fees, if when there is no doubt of guilt.

I'm not dead-set against the death penalty, but I do think in this case that prison will punish him more. I suspect he will fare very poorly there.

Umm. Ever hear of A Beautiful Mind? John Nash is an example of mental illness co-existing with high intelligence. It's often a gradual process. You don't go to bed normal one night and wake up the next day bug sh*t crazy in most cases. And are you offering your opinion as a licensed psychiatrist or psychologist or are you just pulling an opinion out of your non-mental health professional behind?

This ain't no movie, and he is as crazy as he wants to be. Lets remove his brain and find out.

Gutsy girl, because we have rational minds we want to think he is crazy because we don't think the same way, nor can we relate to his way of thinking.. He could be perfectly sane without a conscious/empathy/sympathy..

That face he makes is just him wanting folks to think he is crazy.. Hell I could take the same picture and post it here and you all would think I was bat @!$%# crazy by looking at my eyes..

I think the man is sane, because how many people insane that you know can plan that attack, horde that mass amount of guns and ammunition, drive to a movie theater, prop a door open, go to the car retrieve the guns, go in and speak a line from the movies, and start aiming to kill..

I have had clients snap and go through what we call disassociation, or a psychotic break.. They have no clue what they are doing, such as catching a bed on fire and locking themselves in a room while speaking in tongues.. Walking around like a zombie not knowing what day or time it is, they can barely take their own pants off to pee let alone think out that type of plot to attack a movie theater..

Some Lame Name Here - I'll give you my opinion.. ^^ How is my fine sexy friend doing?

Hey Gusty, sereal killers are good at what they do, evil, no feelings of guilt however I wouldn't they are normal.

Hey Calico. We'll have to respectfully agree to disagree. One of the reasons I feel the way I do is that recently I had an ex-girlfriend contact me from the mental hospital she's been in for the last 4 years. She tried to rob a gas station with her finger in her pocket as a gun and her defense attorney suggested she try for a psych eval to avoid jail time. Well they locked her up as mentally ill and 4 years later she's still there and as she said herself the irony was that if she had taken the felony she would have been out in less than a year. I knew she had problems since the last time I had seen her she was talking "psychically" with a friend across the country while sitting in the front seat of my car and another time had shown up at the house of a friend of mine in a disheveled state rambling about how there people watching her in her apartment and wanting to stay with him. She wrote me a letter not long after contacting me and was telling me about reading Utopia by Sir Thomas More. She wrote a very cohesive and intelligent letter but she is still mentally ill and they will not let her out of the mental hospital. For me, at least, it is proof that you can still plan and have cohesive thoughts and still have mental problems that make being integrated with society a problem or be a danger to yourself and others. Not every mental illness is the same or of the same level of severity. That's why I brought up John Nash. While a movie was made about him it does not take away the fact that despite having schizophrenia he still is a brilliant mathematician who has formulated theories that are widely used today while having his mental illness and has been a guest speaker at numerous events as late as 2005. Sometimes the descent into madness is gradual and not always a sudden psychotic break as you have experienced with your clients.

@Lenny12. C'mon man you can disagree with someone without disparaging them. Just because you don't have the same opinion doesn't mean you have to put someone down for having a different one than yours.

her defense attorney suggested she try for a psych eval to avoid jail time. Well they locked her up as mentally ill and 4 years later she's still there and as she said herself the irony was that if she had taken the felony she would have been out in less than a year.

Getting in is often far easier than getting out. And as my wife used to say 'these people don't realize that malingering is a full time job."

Getting in is often far easier than getting out.

Jon Ronson made that point painfully clear in The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry.

Maybe he didn't plan it all. He may simply be a fall guy that they made insane.

Seriously?

Lenny12- Hey might be a good time to learn to read, before you jump to the same moronic conclusion.. I think he is SANE.. Or do you not know the difference between insane and sane..

Same-- I get there is mental illness, there is all kinds out there.. But my opinion based off of what I have read would be that he is sane.. Court of law sane.. He knew right from wrong.. I should clarify that when I post.. He could be totally bat @!$%# crazy but I haven't heard of him being medicated or treated for any mental illnesses.. They will get to psychologist that will argue that one finds him ape @!$%# crazy and the other will say he knew right from wrong..

http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1239161151105&ssbinary=true

Enjoy.

To convict a person of a crime, the prosecution must prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant committed each element of the crime with the required degree of mental culpability (e.g., willfully, intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly). If the defendant's mental condition prevented the defendant from forming the required degree of culpability, the prosecution cannot prove the element of mental culpability beyond a reasonable doubt, and thus, the defendant cannot be convicted of the offense. The defendant is held not guilty because of insanity or impaired mental condition. Also, if a person who is charged with committing a crime exhibits mental illness to the extent that he or she
cannot understand the nature and course of the proceedings against him or her or cannot participate or assist in his or her own defense, under the statutes, the person must be found incompetent to stand trial until he or she can understand the proceedings or participate in his or her defense.

Bassai- Thanks for the info..

M'Naghten Rule-

the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

Because it is easier for the perps to walk from a mental hospital, hospital staff even takes the criminal insane tp public outings such as County & State Fairs, movies & so forth.

DKJ - idk where you got your info from but if someone is forcefully put in a mental institution after committing a crime, they're not going on public outings or to the movies. It is a prison for people with mental issues.

very clever but lol this is a civilized country. we don't combat crimes with cartoon punishments.

Why not? I got a whole bunch of ideas from Wiley E. Coyote and Yosemite Sam.

Let us not forget his purchase of body armor to keep from being shot while he was on his murderous spree.

Insanity is a legal term and has nothing to do an inability to develop and carry out complex plans.

(CBS/AP) CENTENNIAL, Colo. - Colorado prosecutors filed 24 counts of murder charges Monday against James Eagan Holmes, the former neuroscience student accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 others at an Aurora movie theater.

For each victim who died in the rampage, Holmes, 24, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one for allegedly intending to cause harm and another for allegedly acting with extreme indifference to human life, according to court documents.

A conviction under extreme indifference means that any life sentences would have to be served consecutively, not concurrently, said Craig Silverman, a former chief deputy district attorney in Denver.

Prosecutors also filed 116 counts of attempted murder against Holmes

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57482151/james-eagan-holmes-charged-with-murder-attempted-murder-from-colo-rampage/