Monday, October 21, 2013

Colorado theater gunman coerced into incriminating statements, defense says

Accused Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes listens at his arraignment in Centennial By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Police coerced movie theater gunman James Holmes into talking about explosives found in his apartment after he shot 12 people to death, and those statements should be barred from his murder trial, defense lawyers argued in a Colorado courtroom on Monday. Prosecutors stood by the admissibility of the statements, countering that police were merely trying to obtain information on how to safely defuse the bombs to protect law enforcement officers and the public from a potential detonation of the booby traps. ...








via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/colorado-theater-gunman-coerced-incriminating-statements-defense-says-044658839.html

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