Lynne Fenton, the psychiatrist who had been seeing Holmes, testified in a preliminary court procedure that she had not reported him to be a "threat to harm" anyone; see: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57503831/psychiatrist-i-met-james-holmes-once/
Quoting from the above news article: |When asked on the stand Thursday if she reported Holmes, who |was studying neuroscience at the university's medical campus, |as a "threat to harm," she said she did not. | |Fenton's testimony comes as investigators seek to have access |to a notebook sent to her by Holmes on July 19, the day before |the shooting in which he is accused of killing 12 people and |wounding 58 at a showing of "The Dark Knight Rises." | |A court order currently has the contents of the notebook sealed, |but prosecution lawyers believe it contains descriptions of a violent |attack and argue that the evidence is critical in establishing a |motive in their case against the former student. It should be noted that two other "professionals" saw Holmes but their identities have not been revealed. In my research methods course I contrast legal procedures with research studies and point out that the goal of legal procedures is not to establish all of the facts about a situation -- only the facts that appear to be relevant to the court procedure. Moreover, since an adversarial approach is used, information that one side has might not be shared with the other side (long time watchers of the TV series "Law & Order" will remember episodes when some information that might sway a jury be kept out of court by some technicality; I was a juror on a murder trial where pre-trial information was not presented but, once I and other jurors found out about it after our verdict, thought it very relevant). It seems absurd that Holmes' notebook has been sealed and kept from the prosecution (and the general public) but that's how the legal game is played. It will be quite a while before the most relevant details are made available. And some people might just not talk about things because of fears of some legal action being taken against them. I wonder how long it will be before someone sues Dr. Fenton and/or CU-Denver for "incompetence" or "negligence" or whatever Colorado law allows. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=20117 or send a blank email to leave-20117-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
