and give us whatever information they can about the charges agains james holmes, the suspect in the theater massacre. once again back to william buckley, the retired chief deputy district attorney in denver. you helped write the statute that says victims have rights to be in the courtroom and present at every step of this proceeding. there are an awful lot of victims there. where are they going to get the space if all of them will be in the courtroom? that will be a real logistical problem. the constitutional amendment in colorado, i was on the committee that wrote it, that victims have a right to be notified of, to be present at and to be heard where relevant at all critical stages of the prosecution. and when you think that you ve got the families of 12 victims who have lost their lives, plus all of these other victims who have been injured, those courtrooms in arapaho county are pretty small. i would suggest they probably could seat 100 people.
that is so unpredictable. i would have no idea. would you consider domestic terrorism charges? that would not be something that we would normally consider in state prosecution. [inaudible] the mood is not to go forward with the death penalty, do you have discretion [inaudible] or are you bound in some way to it will, ultimately, be the decision of the prosecutors on the case. [inaudible] that s nothing we don t have a lot of information on that and nothing we could issue if we did. does anybody else on the team have anything they want to say? how long until you expect this to go to trial? that is also very unpredictable. it s going to depend on the number of motions, the availability of the court. it will nothing in the court system moves all that quickly, and so so months, years? at least a year, i would say.
about. the video is being recorded in the courtroom and it will be available for replay. so at some point during the day, after the camera crew is available to leave the courtroom and feed this video back, there will be a replay of everything that is happening now live. but once again, just let me explain, there is one camera in the courtroom under the courthouse rules. that camera is feeding video and auto audio through a cell phone and that cell phone signal is then transmitting these pictures and the audio to the rest of us outside. all of the broadcast media outlets are affected by this same situation. so you don t need to change the channel. it will be the same everywhere. because of the cell phone can only pack a limited amount of information, you re getting this kind of interruption. the feed seems to be a bit
mentioned, she is term limited. her term as district attorney ends in november when she will be replaced, and so she will make the decisions that steer this case in the early going, but it is, as you heard, almost impossible that the suspect, james holmes, will be facing charges in court, that is that his trial will actually start this year. we will see what happens as this case moves along, but it s going to be very complicated as you heard there, and it s going to take some time. in the meantime, i just wanted to share with you some information that i learned from a source last night who was one of the first responders inside the theater on the night of the shooting, and the point that this source stressed to me was that as bad as this event was, it could have been so much worse. i was told that, in fact, the shooter did toss tear gas
what sort of information are you still trying to figure out? obviously, you learned quite a lot in the first couple days. where from now, what are the questions that you still have that you re trying to get answers to? well, it s still a very active, ongoing investigation. we re still doing subpoenas, search warrants, and so i don t we re still looking at this case from every angle, following up on information that the media has obtained that would be of interest to the officers. so we re still very much partnered with the aurora police department on finding information. [inaudible] we certainly know that that will be an issue that will be brought up to the court. the jump suit that we saw him in today, is that the standard color that a suspect or an inmate wears in the county jail here? i would refer that to the sheriff s department. i don t know how they dress people. [inaudible conversations]