Colorado Shooting Suspect Faces Potential Capital Charge
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James Holmes, arrested in the shooting deaths last week of 12 people at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater, is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, a charge that can carry the death penalty.
Before a packed courtroom yesterday in Colorado District Court in Centennial, a suburb of Denver, Judge William Sylvester advised Holmes of his rights and set a July 30 hearing for formal charges. With his hair dyed orange and dressed in red prison clothing, Holmes, 24, sat in the jury box with a defense lawyer.