AURORA | Jurors in the Aurora theater shooting trial started their deliberations Wednesday morning and, based on their questions for the judge, appear to be focused on doctors’ sanity evaluations of James Holmes.
The latest question jurors sent to the court asked if the reports and notes from the four doctors who examined Holmes — two of whom found him sane, two found him insane — were admitted into evidence. Judge Carlos Samour Jr. told them those reports and notes were not admitted as evidence.
As of 2 p.m., the jury had sent Samour four questions. Early in the day, they asked for a white board and Samour said his staff would get them one.
Later, the jury asked if the court could give them a guide so they could more easily find specific items among the thousands of pieces of evidence admitted in the trial.
But Samour told them they could not have any sort of guide to the thousands of pieces of evidence admitted during the three-month trial.
The issue with a guide, Samour said, is that it would require some sort of description of each item of evidence, and prosecutors and defense lawyers would likely disagree over that description.
“Unfortunately they have to do it the hard way,” he said.
The jurors told the court Wednesday they plan to deliberate each day from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until a verdict is reached.