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| James Holmes trial: Batman cinema gunman guilty of murder | |
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| A man who killed 12 people and injured 70 others when he opened fire in a crowded Colorado cinema in 2012 has been found guilty of murder. | |
| James Holmes, 27, was found guilty on multiple counts of murder and attempted murder for the shooting at a midnight premiere of a Batman film near Denver. | |
| He had pleaded not guilty due to insanity - his defence said he was controlled by his schizophrenia. | |
| Prosecutors may now seek the death penalty for the neuroscience student. | |
| The panel of nine women and three men rejected the claim that Holmes was legally insane. | |
| During the 49-day trial with more than 250 witnesses, the court heard Holmes entered the cinema in Aurora where The Dark Knight Rises was being screened, armed with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol. |