Message #2828

[Genichiro]

Those thoughts are pretty much reciprocated by the article I read today:

The prosecutor in the case of James Holmes, suspected in the shooting deaths of 12 moviegoers in Colorado, said Monday that the prosecution has an "enormous amount of evidence," but that she would not call it a "slam dunk."

"There is no such thing as a slam dunk case ... we would never presume that it would be a slam dunk. We will work very hard on this case to prosecute it," Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers said.

I suppose nothing is ever a "slam dunk," but insanity is the only way out of the death penalty for Holmes at this point. The man was caught in the act, still armed, still dangerous. It's really hard to say someone else did it in that situation, unless by some crazy coincidence, there was another person dressed exactly like him, with the exact same weapons, doing the exact same thing, and Holmes got caught before he could do it himself.