James Holmes.

Late last month, a court document suggested that the attorneys representing accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes wished to enter a not-guity-by-reason-of-insanity plea on his behalf.

At a hearing today, the defense team formally did so in the case, which involves the murder of twelve people and the wounding of seventy others at a midnight screening of The Dark Night Rises on July 20, 2012. However, Judge Carlos Samour has not yet accepted the plea. His decision will come at month's end.

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James Holmes.

Accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes "intends to tender a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity" at the next hearing in the case, which is scheduled for Monday, May 13, according to a motion filed today by Holmes's attorneys.

Holmes's attorneys have previously indicated that they were considering entering an insanity plea -- perhaps even against their client's will. The motion filed today was brief; it simply announced Holmes's intentions and cited the applicable Colorado law. Read it below.

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Update below: Are attorneys for accused theater shooter James Holmes considering entering a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, or NGRI, against Holmes's will? A court document filed Monday hints as much. "As the Colorado Supreme Court recognized...a defendant's own thoughts, desires and opinions about a plea may be 'a manifestation of mental illness' lacking 'a plausible grounding in reality,'" they wrote. "That is one reason why Colorado's insanity statute provides a mechanism for entering a NGRI plea over the objection of a defendant in some circumstances."

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In most cases, an order for prosecutors to make sure the defense team has access to all of their documents is commonplace. But there's no such thing as business as usual when it comes to the Aurora theater shooting.

In a newly released document on view below, 18th Judicial District DA George Brauchler asks the judge in the case to clarify his order about sharing items with defense, given that they've already shared 37,000 pages of documents and 436 discs -- and there may be a lot more than that.

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Megan Sullivan.

The surviving victims of the Aurora theater shooting and their families have had well-documented issues with the charitable support coming from around the state and the country.

The problems got so bad that Governor John Hickenlooper was forced to step in and appoint Ken Feinberg to serve as a "special master" charged with developing a protocol to ensure that the funds being donated toward the Aurora shootings were actually reaching the victims and not just other charities.

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A Portland man has been arrested for harassing the families of victims of the Aurora theater shooting.

Kevin Michael Purfield, 45, is accused of "e-mailing, calling and using social media to contact various family members of victims of the theater shooting," the Portland police say in a statement. "None of the contacts were threatening but were unwanted and annoying, and Purfield would often use vile language. "

This week's cover story, "Sticks and Stones," explains that victims have been harassed by other people, too.

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Fox News reporter Jana Winter was not forced to take the stand today and testify about her unnamed sources. Instead, the judge in the Aurora theater shooting case ordered Winter back on August 19.

By then, an attorney for suspect James Holmes said several outstanding issues should be resolved. She didn't elaborate, but the judge said he won't rule on the testimony issue until he decides whether a notebook Winter wrote about will be admitted as evidence, a decision that could depend on Holmes's plea.

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A.J. Boik

Chris Bates's reaction to the Aurora theater shooting last summer was one shared by countless other Coloradans. "I felt this really strong urge that I had to do something," says the Fort Collins artist.

But Bates was initially at a loss as to what. After listening to a talk about "art's ability to heal the world," he says the idea came to him: He'd contact the families of the deceased victims and offer to make them a custom drawing of their loved one. The girlfriend of eighteen-year-old A.J. Boik was immediately interested.

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Jana Winter.

Fox News reporter Jana Winter won't face such a tough decision tomorrow after all. The judge in the Aurora theater shooting case has delayed a ruling on whether to compel Winter to testify about her confidential sources until after he decides whether to allow a notebook that suspect James Holmes mailed to a psychiatrist to be admitted as evidence in the case.

Winter wrote a story quoting unnamed law enforcement sources as saying the notebook contained "details about how he was going to kill people."

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Among the documents released yesterday in the Aurora theater shooting case was a wide-ranging inventory of the contents found in accused killer James Holmes's apartment.

We've got the complete list below. But among the more interesting items are three video games, none of which are the sort of realistic first-person shooter games most people (including those eager to blame actual tragedy on pop culture) probably expected.

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