Jury Selection Begins in US Theater Massacre

A judge in the western U.S. state of Colorado has begun screening potential jurors for the death penalty trial of a gunman accused of killing 12 people and wounding 70 others in a movie theater near Denver in 2012. The selection process, expected to take weeks, is the first step in the trial of 27-year-old defendant James Holmes.   A former University of Colorado neuroscience graduate student, Holmes is accused of opening fire with an automatic weapon in a packed cinema house in...

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