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Preliminary Hearing Begins In July Aurora Shooting Case

Catherine Green |
January 7, 2013 | 9:14 a.m. PST

Executive Producer

 

The scene of daylight hours following the shooting this past July. (Alan Mittelstaedt/Neon Tommy)
The scene of daylight hours following the shooting this past July. (Alan Mittelstaedt/Neon Tommy)
Prosecutors begin a week-long preliminary hearing Monday to detail their case against James Holmes, the 25-year-old man charged with killing 12 people and injuring 58 in a Colorado movie theater shooting last July.

According to The New York Times, their insights are expected to offer new details of the attack, including a look behind Holmes' plotting. 

Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester will decide at the end of the week whether there is sufficient evidence to take the suspect to trial.

That trial would still be several months away, if the judge does indeed decide prosecutors can pursue it. Holmes faces 160 counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder. "The fact that Mr. Holes did not kill himself," the Times reports, "has transformed the aftermath of the tragedy into a costly and legal case."

Read the full story here, and more of Neon Tommy's coverage of the shooting and its aftermath here.

 

 

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