James Holmes Says He's Koo Koo for Cocoa Puffs
 

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DENVER (AP) — The man accused in the deadly Colorado theater shootings wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, his lawyers said Tuesday.

Attorneys for James Holmes said in a court filing they plan to formally ask for the change of plea at a May 13 hearing.

A judge in the case previously entered a standard not guilty plea for the 25-year-old Holmes. If the judge accepts the new plea, Holmes would be sent to the state mental hospital, where doctors would determine whether he was insane at the time of the July 20 shootings.

If the doctors do determine that Holmes was insane, a jury could still find him guilty.

Colorado law defines insanity as the inability to distinguish right from wrong, caused by a diseased or defective mind. The law specifically excludes depravity, "moral obliquity" or passion caused by anger or hatred from being considered insanity.

The insanity plea was widely expected given the compelling evidence against Holmes. He is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Holmes' attorneys have said in court hearings and written in court documents that Holmes is mentally ill. He was being seen by a psychiatrist before the July 20 attack at a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie that killed 12 people and injured 70.

Prosecutors say Holmes spent months buying guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition, donned police-style body armor and opened fire in the crowded theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora.

Holmes could be executed if he's convicted of more than 160 counts of murder and attempted murder.

Last month, prosecutors filed a court document listing aggravating factors they plan to raise in a possible death penalty phase of the trial. The factors included the death of 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, the youngest of dead.

Prosecutors also said in the filing that the slayings were "especially heinous, cruel or depraved."

Dude planned for months. Sounds sane.

It's called a cheap ass way out. He wasn't insane when he did it, he deserves to pay for the crimes he's committed. Not sit in a stray jacket for the rest of his days.

Why do we even give this guy an attorney?

Good luck.

Colorado is one of the most difficult states in the country to plead insanity.

Don't you have to be insane to commit mass murder?

In a sense, they would all get off. But he shouldn't, and he won't. He must be held accountable for his actions to the fullest extent of the law.

Not surprising, and it won't change the outcome. Holmes is a dead mother****er.

If by meaning fullest extent of the law then in prison he gets shoved down a meat grinder.

so if he's insane he's just a crazy person that got a hold of weapons and did bad stuff.

if he's sane and planned it, then virtually anybody is capable of what he did.

The guy was drugged the **** up.

Which one? Pot or Vicodin?

I'm supposed to ****ing care?

The CO insanity defense specifically excludes drug and alcohol intoxication.

Mickey Mouse ask the judge for a divorce

Judge ask what cause or reason for the divorce


Mickey Mouse says that Mini Mouse is crazy


Judge ask How so?


Because she is ****ing Goofy

Does it matter?