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We had the report of domestic violence against him and in 89 or 90 he was arrested for an arson case in georgia. >> and the last year he was convicted, he booby trapped it and put cement in the pipes and defecating in the rooms. detectives are going through the journal and blogs that he was active in. there is a possibility we may never know what brought him to the movie theater on thursday. there is a mix of grief and anger. we talked to the father of one of the victims and his daughter is a de...

This point. >> we are joined now by jim cavanaugh, nbc law enforcement expert. jim, what is the standard procedure now on that scene? >> well, they dune active shooter response which sounds like they may have already done lawrence to get to the person or persons shooting and try to engage and stop the activity of course. that means the officers may have engaged with the shoot er and shot him, like we saw in chattanooga last week. or it could be a suicide, murder-suicide type case. we dont know. ...

Be -- each side is going to persuade them, right? the prosecution he premeditated, he showed up and he had full body armor and a helmet, a neck guard, he had leg protectors, he knew what was going on. he booby trapped the the apartment. but the defense will say hes in a psychosis. how do we know hes not well? because two psychiatrists looked you in the eye and told you so. if you look at that and his family history and own histories you will have no choice, ladies and gentlemen, but to declare h...

Legal or factual defense. he put himself in body armor. that shows hes thinking he is doing something wrong. he targeted specific moviegoers as they were leaving the theater. he booby trapped his apartment so law enforcement would get hurt. this is thought-out problems. >> i know in the boston case the prosecution asked the judge please let the family members testify quickly so we can put the fbi agents back on the street no longer protecting the tsarnaev clan. thank you. two former officials ...

>> reporter: the prosecution goes first. the district attorney is expected to remind jurors of the horrors of july 2012. hes charged with murdering 12 people at the you aurora 16 center. they say he purchased assault rifles and bomb-making materials. he booby trapped his apartment. the d.a. says in this case justice is done. bill: a tough trial there. the u.s. drone program in the crosshairs after the death of a

Starts with the sheer amount of planning that went into this massacre at the theater. he bought four guns and 6,000 rounds of ammunition in the two months leading up to it. he wore body armor. he wrote in an online chat group asking people if they would, quote, visit him in jail. and then theres his apartment. he booby trapped it with wires and ten gallons of gasoline. it all can go to the premeditation and knowing right from wrong, but with this case likely being a death penalty case, the prose...

Between being right and wrong n. this case it is the prosecution that has to show that he was sane and the defense obviously is going to have to have the rebuttal to show was insane, but thats not just because you are seeing a psychiatrist that proves you are insane at the time that this happened. rick: dan, what about the defendants competence to stand trial? that is something we saw in the tucson shooters case where hes getting medical treatment so in the future he may be able to stand trial. ...

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To overreact, of course, we weep and we grief for those losses. we are just shocked and sickened by the evil and tragedy but you can go too far. the discussion of metal detectors if movie theaters. >>neil: it gets crazy. i think, also, given the stocks and the performance today, anything connected to movie industry or making movies, or theaters themselves, including our parent company all hit because it would put a chill on movie attendance. and that is not a go thing. say warner brothers pulled...

We had the report of domestic violence against him and in 89 or 90 he was arrested for an arson case in georgia. >> and the last year he was convicted, he booby trapped it and put cement in the pipes and defecating in the rooms. detectives are going through the journal and blogs that he was active in. there is a possibility we may never know what brought him to the movie theater on thursday. there is a mix of grief and anger. we talked to the father of one of the victims and his daughter is a de...