Theatre shooting trial jury selection enters final stage

Jury selection in the Colorado theatre shooting case has entered its final stage with attorneys questioning prospective jurors as a large group.

Prosecutors and defence attorneys will whittle 115 remaining candidates down to 12 jurors and 12 alternates to serve in the months-long trial of James Holmes. Opening statements are scheduled for April 27.

Holmes is charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 others in the July 20, 2012, attack on a Denver-area movie theatre. His defence attorneys do not dispute that he pulled the trigger but say he was in the grips of a psychotic episode when he slipped into the theatre and opened fire while dressed from head to toe in combat gear.