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... Winter is currently facing a jail sentence for refusing to reveal the sources who provided her with alleged Aurora shooter James Holmes’ notebook, which he had sent to a psychiatrist and which was"full of details about how he was going to kill people." Holmes’ defense attorneys subpoenaed Winter to testify about who told her about the notebook and a Colorado judge has said that he will rule on April 10th whether Winter must reveal her source or face jail time for refusing to testify.

Colorado prosecutors have reached the decision that James Holmes deserves to die for killing 12 people in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater last July. Their decision comes after Holmes’ offer to plead guilty to the shooting in exchange for receiving life in prison was rejected by prosecutors.

Ceremony seen as a way of moving forward, but some victims are boycotting.

A judge on Friday granted a defense motion to delay the arraignment of James Holmes until March 12.

Aurora massacre suspect James Holmes was “very relaxed” when police grabbed him outside the movie theater where 12 people had just been murdered and dozens more wounded, an officer testified Monday.

Prosecutors added 14 counts of attempted murder to the charges against shooting suspect James Holmes. Prosecutors also amended five other counts that Holmes, 24, already faced. Details about the new charges were not made public.

The suspect in a deadly movie theater attack in Colorado threatened a professor before the shooting, leading the university to ban him from campus, prosecutors said in court documents released Friday.

Colorado prosecutors on Thursday will again try to get a look at a notebook sent to a University of Colorado psychiatrist by the suspect in the Aurora movie theater shooting. The notebook, sent by suspect James Holmes to psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, reportedly contains descriptions of a violent attack that could be similar to the one at the Aurora theater on July 20.

Court records confirmed Friday that James Eagan Holmes was seeing a psychiatrist before he allegedly opened fire in a Colorado movie theater last week, killing 12 people and wounding dozens of others. The disclosure came in a motion(.pdf) seeking a hearing on what Holmes' lawyers called inappropriate leaks to the news media. The motion was granted, and the hearing is scheduled for Monday.

Following pleas from victims' relatives and others, politicians and some journalists are refraining from naming the Colorado theater shooting suspect. Facing an audience of thousands gathered to remember victims of the deadly theater shooting here, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper made a strategic choice: He didn't mention the suspect's name.