Theater Shooting Trial Highlights

Closing out the Aurora theater shooting trial on Wednesday, Judge Carlos Samour Jr. sentenced the shooter to the maximum 3,318 consecutive years in prison on top of the 12 consecutive life senten...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/12-life-sentences-3318-years-judge-imposes-maximum-sentences-on-gunman/

"Get the defendant out of my courtroom, please," Judge Carlos Samour said before members of the gallery erupted in applause.

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/video-judge-samour-reads-formal-sentences-gallery-applauds/

Prosecutor George Brauchler in court as James Holmes appears before the judge to be formally sentenced. The formal sentencing continued for the third day at Arapahoe County District Court in Cent...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/photos-formal-sentencing-for-theater-shooting-gunman/

Denver Post reporter John Ingold wraps up the final day of the trial as Judge Carlos Samour handed over the maximum sentence of 12 life sentences without parole plus 3,318 years to James Holmes.

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/video-wrapping-up-the-final-day-of-the-theater-shooting-trial/

Victims and families took to the lawn outside the Arapahoe County Courthouse to react to Judge Samour delivering the maximum sentences to the theater shooting gunman. Click here to watch all of r...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/videos-victims-families-react-to-maximum-sentence/

Denver Post reporter John Ingold describes the feeling inside the courtroom as Judge Carlos Samour handed over the maximum sentence of 12 life sentences without parole plus 3,318 years to James H...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/video-john-ingold-describes-the-feeling-in-the-court-room-as-maximum-sentence-handed-down/

Kristian Cowden speaks tearfully about losing her dad, Gordon Cowden, in the Aurora Theater Shooting during the formal sentencing phase of the trial. Theresa Hoover (mother of shooting victim A.J...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/video-kristian-cowden-daughter-of-theater-shooting-victim-gordon-cowden-testifies/

Kathleen Pourciau, the mother of Bonnie Kate Pourciau Zoghbi, took the stand to testify about the impact of her daughter's injury. (Read more here.) After describing the life her daughter is livi...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/mother-of-victim-calls-life-sentence-unsatisfactory-samour-responds/

Judge Samour has begun hearing testimony from the families of victims who were injured in the shooting and first responders in the formal sentencing phase for the charges of attempted murder the ...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/formal-sentencing-phase-begins/

Jordan Steffen profiles district attorney Lisa Teesch-Maguire, who by virtue of working with more than 1,000 people victimized by the Aurora theater shooting, has become an expert in dealing with...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/a-prosecutor-has-become-a-sudden-expert-on-dealing-with-mass-shooting-victims/

John Ingold talks to the family of John Larimer, who attended every single day of the trial of their son's killer while living out of a room at the Embassy Suites. They attended every day of the ...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/for-john-larimers-family-trial-brings-uncertain-closure/

Denver Post reporters John Ingold and Jordan Steffen dive into the story of why and how the Aurora theater shooting case progressed into one of the largest trials in Colorado history, rather than...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/how-the-theater-shooting-case-went-from-plea-discussions-to-opposition/

John Ingold interviews the team of prosecutors who worked on the James Holmes case, including Rich Orman, Karen Pearson, Jacob Edson and Lisa Teesch-Maguire.

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/interview-with-proscutors-who-worked-on-the-james-holmes-case/

Across thousands of pieces of evidence, hundreds of witnesses and dozens of hours of video-recorded interviews, the Aurora movie theater murder trial churned out a nearly unprecedented amount of ...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/lessons-on-preventing-mass-shootings-elusive-in-aurora-theater-trial/

The man who committed one of the worst mass murders in Colorado history will not suffer the state's strictest punishment because of persuasive efforts his attorneys began before a jury was even p...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/how-the-defense-laid-the-groundwork-for-a-life-sentence/

James Holmes will spend the rest of his life in a prison cell instead of dying in an execution chamber, jurors in the Aurora movie theater shooting trial decided Friday. After deliberating for le...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/life-in-prison/

Denver Post reporter Jordan Steffen talks about being inside the courtroom during the sentence reading in the Aurora Theater Shooting trial.

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/watch-jordan-steffen-describes-scene-in-courtroom/

District attorney George Brauchler talks to the media after the jury in the Aurora theater shooting trial announced their final sentence of life in prison for the gunman.

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/watch-da-brauchler-reacts-to-life-sentence/

Judge Samour reads the 24 decisions reached by the jury in the final sentencing phases.

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/watch-judge-samour-reads-sentencing-verdict/

Denver Post Legal Expert Larry Pozner explains to Director of DPtv Molly Hughes the power and weight behind the decision they have to make in the final phase of the sentencing hearing for the Aur...

https://theatertrial.denverpost.com/a-jurors-burden-legal-expert-explains-what-death-penalty-jurors-face/