The Insanity Plea By James Eagan Holmes

as a child had vanished. Holmes was starting over on the right track. When June of 2011 came along, James enrolled at the University of Colorado. More specifically, he was a student at the university’s medical campus, Anschutz, in Aurora. He was studying to get his PhD in Neuroscience. Throughout 2012, it was obvious something in Holmes was changing. Once a straight A student, his grades began to decline drastically. After failing a very important exam that June, Holmes dropped out. July 19th

Imagine you are at work. You know your son is pulling into the driveway at about this time. You never thought anything bad could happen to him; this has been his daily routine for nearly two years. A man is sitting in his closet. He knows exactly what time you go to work, what time he gets to school, when he comes home from school, and when you get home from work. He knows these things because he is smart. He has studied, calculated, and has done this before. He has been planning this for quite

structure of America, it protects their money, their politics, and their society. James Eagan Holmes, a 26 year old male from San Diego California, is the accused perpetrator of a mass shooting that killed 12 and murdered 70 people at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, 2012 during the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises (Wikipedia, n.d.) On March 12, 2013, a Colorado judge entered a plea of not guilty when Holmes’s attorney

inside a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The gun man this time was James Holmes, who was just 24 years old when he decided to commit such as heinous crime. Although an intelligent young man, what made him want to kill so many people? What set him off? What was his motive? This paper is therefore designed to show that anyone including the smartest and most reserved man in the room can be the next mass murderer. James Eagan Holmes was born in San Diego, California on December 13, 1987 but raised in