A view of the jury box inside Courtroom 201, where the trial of Aurora movie theater shootings defendant James Holmes began on April 27, 2015, at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in Centennial.
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An alternate juror in the Colorado theater shooting trial showed up in court wearing a Metallica T-shirt with the image of a man being electrocuted.
The juror told Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. that he wasn’t trying to send a message.
His defense attorneys yesterday then urged jurors to spare his life, despite the horrors he caused.
The jury last week found Holmes guilty of killing 12 people and wounding dozens of others in the July 2012 massacre. The juror’s name was included in both the tweet and the linked story.
The sentencing hearing for Colorado theater shooter James Holmes has been canceled for the day because a juror is ill.
In phase one, jurors had to decide whether there were aggravating factors for the death penalty.
Samour seemed equally unsettled, ruling on Wednesday afternoon that all Newsweek employees would be banned from the courtroom for the duration of the trial.
Burningham said Newsweek editors forgot to delete the tweet that initially went out with the story Thursday, and deleted it Wednesday.
Given the fact that Newsweek’s editors have told the court they have no further plans to cover the trial, Samour deemed the ban sufficient.
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In the article, Newsweek said that the juror, whom it identified by given name and surname, stared at Holmes while the judge read the guilty verdicts. The decision means Holmes may still be sentenced to death.
