Bloomberg article about possible investigation. [11] He has a sister. [59], In 2012, Holmes' academic performance declined,[60] and he scored poorly on the comprehensive exam in the spring. His father rarely, if ever saw him with friends. I'm not saying that there are not a lot of questions about whether or not James killed any of those people, in fact, I don't even think he did. 2015 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Holmes left Rotkovich one voicemail in reply. 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[62][79] All three of these weapons were bought legally, and background checks were performed. It was like somebody was trying to be as weird as possible," Rotkovich said. His father rarely, if ever saw him with friends. He is Robert M. Holmes, senior lead scientist at the San Diego office of Minneapolis-based FICO, New York Stock Exchange-listed company that was formerly named Fair Isaac. "But he told us he loved us. Scanned the board. His was father had degrees from prestigious universities like Stanford and UC Berkeley and worked as a mathematician/scientist. This sounds reasonable given that FICO is one of the big credit rating agencies - the software sounds like it's more or less about determining how much of a credit risk someone is. And how do we lessen the guilt of being alive? It defies logic. [12] Holmes was raised in Oak Hills, a community in Monterey County near Castroville, California, where he attended elementary school. Holmes entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which was accepted. [161], On October 8, 2015, Holmes was assaulted by another inmate, identified as Mark Daniels, who had been convicted of auto theft. A mandatory protection order was issued by the judge. The 27-year-old NFL star smiled proudly as he posed with son Patrick "Bronze" Lavon, 3 months, and 2-year-old daughter Sterling Skye, in a shot from the family's recent photo shoot. "Most important to note about James Holmes, however, this report says, is that his father, Robert Holmes, was said to have been scheduled to testify within the next few weeks before a US Senate panel on the largest bank fraud scandal in world history that is currently unfolding and threatens to destabilize and destroy the Western banking system. Truth-seekers have a new standard, a better standard, for discourse, free from your suppression tools like "evidence" and "burden of proof." 1765) and Jenny Downs Holmes (b. [140][141], On June 19, the prosecution called as their last witness Ashley Moser, the mother of slain victim Veronica Moser-Sullivan. They called him Jimmy., It is a childhood nickname only witnesses may use in court, as per the order of Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. Defense attorneys call him Mr. Holmes. He decided to pursue a graduate degree in neuroscience at the University of Colorado and moved to Aurora. "[159], On December 4, 2015, Judge Carlos Samour ordered Holmes to pay $955,000 in restitution to the victims. The trial was delayed to December 8 upon a defense request for a continuance to further evaluate Holmes' mental condition. The disclosure was made at a court hearing in Centennial where news media organizations were asking a judge to unseal court documents in the case. It's like writing a word on a piece of paper, burning that piece of paper, then saying "give me evidence of what that piece of paper said!". According to his LinkedIn profile, James Holmes's father, Dr. Robert Holmes, who received a PhD in Statistics in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley, worked for San Diego-based HNC Software, Inc. from 2000 to 2002. This was written by known disinfo agent Sorcha Faal and has absolutely no corroborating evidence. [91] The responding officers recovered several guns from inside the car and the theater. [50] According to UCR recommendation letters submitted to the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign (UIUC), Holmes graduated in the top 1 percent of his class with a 3.949 GPA. It's not clear that any software he wrote for his job would necessarily be relevant to the LIBOR scandal. [160], In September 2015, Holmes was moved to the Colorado State Penitentiary in Caon City. So I think it is quite unlikely that whistleblowing/software of Robert Holmes angered shadowy bankers to such a degree, that they planned a gruesome revenge for Robert Holmes and his family. [97] He was read his rights, and no bail was given due to the nature of the charges. The father of convicted Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes ended a three-year public silence on Tuesday, taking the stand at his son's sentencing to make a final plea to save him from. He is absolutely testifying. Allegedly this investigation will be jointly conducted by the New York State attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman and the Conneticut attorney general George Jepsen. [147][148] The court expected the sentencing phase to last for one month. The same juryconvicted Holmesof the massacre this month, rejecting defense lawyers' arguments that he was legally insane at the time of the attack. The university was not planning to expel him; however, Holmes was in the process of withdrawing from the university. [20][21] According to Holmes' lawyer, Daniel King, Holmes began to suffer from mental health issues in middle school and attempted suicide at age 11. Nearly three years ago, Holmes donned what prosecutors call his kill suit and shot up an Aurora, Colo., movie theater filled with happy Batman fans at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. The killing took only minutes: 12 dead, 70 wounded. [46][47][48][49] He was a member of several honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key. His father Robert Holmes is a mathematician and scientist [11] with degrees from Stanford University, UCLA and UC Berkeley, and his mother Arlene Holmes is a registered nurse. James Holmes had one sister. An interpreter then said the letters aloud, so the court could hear his answers. [72] Dave Aragn, an actor from the MTV television series Pimp My Ride, stated that Holmes called him twice the month before the shooting took place. This is precisely why conspiracies and conspiracy theorists are so incredibly dangerous. He was born and raised in Columbia, SC. [10], On August 5, 2013, Holmes was transferred to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, Colorado. **The conspiracy subreddit is a thinking ground. [119][120] On May 23, 2013, Holmes's attorneys called the state's insanity-plea rules unconstitutional. Holmes allegedly considered other locations for a mass shooting, such as an airport, but ruled it out because an airport would have too much security. Holmes's attorneys tried to call for a mistrial, saying that the jurors heard an unprompted opinion that complicated the legal standard for judging the sanity of a person, but the judge refused to grant the request. [22][23], According to Holmes, during his childhood, he was frightened of what he called "Nail Ghosts" that would hammer on the walls at night. His parents were thrilled to learn he had started dating in graduate school, and knew it wasn't a good sign when that first relationship ended, he said. During the trial there has been very little interaction between James Holmes and his parents. [69], Initial reports from the Los Angeles Times quoting one of Holmes' classmates indicated that Holmes was a fan of superheroes and also quoted an anonymous law enforcement official as claiming that Holmes' apartment was "decorated with Batman paraphernalia". [103], On August 9, Holmes' attorneys said their client was mentally ill and that they needed more time to assess the nature of his illness. He paused. [114], On March 27, 2013, Holmes' attorneys said he would be willing to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty. The committee has published a report which includes a list of the witnesses. The gunmans attorneys call their client Mr. Holmes and acknowledge that he carried out one of the worst mass shootings in American history. If two people could be invisible and have a flashing neon sign over their heads at the same time, it would be Robert and Arlene. The father said that he has only seen his son in jail three times because he typically does not allow visitors. That child grew into a deeply uncommunicative young man. Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6 years old, was dead. He diagnosed him as having schizotypal personality disorder, which is characterized by constricted behavior and difficulties relating to others. [9][10] On August 26, 2015, Judge Carlos A. Samour sentenced Holmes to 12 consecutive life sentences plus 3,318 years without parole after the jury spared Holmes the death penalty by a single vote. 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