Accused Colorado theater gunman competent to stand trial, evaluators say

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Accused Colorado theater gunman competent to stand trial, evaluators say

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/accused-colorado-theater-gunman-competent-stand-trial-evaluators-043320404.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/VFMI25NYA8D1YluFAgV9pQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-12-21T043320Z_1_CBRE9BK0CO200_RTROPTP_2_USA-SHOOTING-DENVER.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="James Holmes sits in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in Centennial" align="left" title="James Holmes sits in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in Centennial" border="0" /></a>By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The former graduate student accused of gunning down scores of patrons in a Colorado movie theater last year was found competent to stand trial by court-appointed sanity evaluators, a judge said Friday. The disclosure by Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour came in the course of legal wrangling over the evaluations that threaten to delay for months a possible trial for 26-year-old James Holmes, who is charged with killing 12 people and wounding dozens more during a midnight screening of the Batman film, &quot;The Dark Knight Rises&quot;, in the Denver suburb of Aurora. Samour, in disclosing that Holmes was deemed competent in September to stand trial, did not say whether the evaluators viewed him as sane at the time of the shootings. However, longtime Colorado criminal defense attorney and legal analyst Wil Smith said that he could be found not guilty by reason of insanity even as he is viewed as competent to stand trial.</p><br clear="all"/>

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