Prosecutors wrap up case in Colorado theater shooting trial

Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shooting trial will rest their case today after eight weeks of testimony in which they sought to show that former neuroscience student James Holmes meticulously planned and carried out the 2012 massacre.
The team relied on emotional testimony from dozens of survivors, graphic photos and Holmes' own videotaped statements to a state-appointed psychiatrist to undermine his claim that he was so mentally ill he didn't know right from wrong at the time he killed 12 people and wounded 70.
Weapons dealers and investigators described how Holmes spent thousands of dollars to amass an arsenal of guns, ammunition, body armor and enough chemicals to rig his apartment into a potentially deadly booby trap.

Classmates, a former girlfriend and two university psychiatrists who treated him before the shooting all testified that they knew nothing of his plans to attack a midnight showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20, 2012.
But prosecutors showed Holmes' spiral notebook, in which he made lists of weapons he planned to buy and included detailed drawings of the theater complex complete with pros and cons of attacking different auditoriums. He wrote about an "obsession to kill" he held since childhood.
Holmes' defence said confusing musings about his life make up a greater part of the notebook, which included the word "why" repeated over several pages.

Now the four defence lawyers will begin calling their own psychiatrists and presenting other evidence to argue Holmes should be found not guilty. They plan to begin their case next Thursday.