Dan Elliott

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Prosecutors: Don’t televise theater shooting trial

Dan Elliott · September 8, 2014 9:24 pm

Holmes jury selection to be open to public, media

Dan Elliott · June 11, 2014 11:32 pm

Daniel King, defense attorney for James Holmes, arrives at the Arapahoe County Justice Center for a hearing on Thursday, May 29, 2014 in Centennial, Colo. The hearing will focus on how prospective jurors should be interviewed and what they should be asked in a written questionnaire. James Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in the July 2012 attack. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Jury selection is scheduled to start in October, and the judge has said it could take up to three months. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Andy Cross, Pool)

James Holmes’ lawyers want closed jury selection

Dan Elliott · May 30, 2014 1:18 am

Holmes prosecutors hint at possible new searches

Dan Elliott · April 28, 2014 4:55 pm

Energy and Environment

Colorado oil, gas regulators say next flood could be worse

Dan Elliott · March 18, 2014 12:00 am

Judge: DA can use Holmes’ cellphone as evidence

Dan Elliott · February 10, 2014 9:46 pm

Brett Mills, front, an FBI crime scene expert leaves the courtroom for a hearing for Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes at district court in Centennial, Colo., on Friday Jan. 31, 2014. Mills was on the stand when the judge recessed for lunch. Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 people and injuring 70 at a Denver-area movie theater in July 2012. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, Pool)

Holmes defense to take reporter to Supreme Court

Dan Elliott · February 1, 2014 12:33 am

Eric Jensen, 37, leaves the federal courthouse in Denver on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, with attorney Forrest Lewis after he and his brother Ryan were sentenced to five years of probation and six months of home detention. The two Colorado cantaloupe farmers who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from a deadly listeria outbreak in 2011 were also ordered to each pay $150,000 in restitution and perform 100 hours of community service.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Farmers get probation in fatal listeria outbreak

Dan Elliott · January 28, 2014 9:07 pm

FILE - This June 4, 2013 file photo shows Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes in court in Centennial, Colo. Holmes returns to court Monday Jan. 27, 2014, for a closed hearing on whether he should get a second psychiatric evaluation. Holmes is charged with the July 2012 Aurora shootings that killed 12 people and injured 70. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Andy Cross, Pool, File)

5 Things to Know as James Holmes returns to court

Dan Elliott · January 27, 2014 6:01 pm

Holmes sanity test team likely will have 3 members

Dan Elliott · June 11, 2013 11:13 pm

FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, James Holmes, left, and defense attorney Tamara Brady appear in district court in Centennial, Colo. for his arraignment. Holmes, the suspect in the Colorado theater massacre, could enter his long-expected insanity plea at a hearing Tuesday June 4, 2013, though the case could also veer off on another tangent as his lawyers seek the strongest possible defense. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool, File)

James Holmes could enter insanity plea Tuesday

Dan Elliott · June 4, 2013 4:00 am

Colorado prosecutors eager to get Holmes notebook

Dan Elliott · May 30, 2013 10:02 pm