Holy cow, I'm listening to the recording of yesterday's verdict reading. The poor judge is still going after over 30 minutes! He has 165 counts to read.
I should point out that the jury found Holmes guilty on all the charges, except they did reduce the count to attempted 2nd degree murder for the three folks who were in theater 8 and were hit by bullets that went through the wall. I guess they thought that while he was purposely trying to kill the folks in theater 9, he didn't intentionally try to kill people in other theaters, that was just an unfortunate circumstance.
Wow, he's just finished ... the defense was able to sit down.
The judge is now asking if the lawyers want him to poll the jurors. The prosecution said no, but the defense said yes. He's now going through the 12 deliberating jurors - thankfully he doesn't have to read each one out, he's simply asking if these are their verdicts, the juror just has to answer yes or no.
Obviously we can't see either the jury or the gallery in the live feed, but the news reports I read said that there were a lot of tears in both areas.
And now we're back to where I started yesterday ...
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