Jury Deliberating In Aurora Theater Shooting Civil Trial
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Jurors are deliberating in a civil trial over whether the owner of an Aurora movie theater should have done more to prevent a 2012 shooting that left 12 people dead.
The jury met for a short time after getting the case Wednesday evening and reconvened Thursday. Jurors must determine whether Cinemark should have foreseen the risk for violence during the packed midnight premiere of a Batman movie in an era of mass shootings.
They also will decide whether the nation's third-largest movie theater chain failed to take precautions that would have thwarted the attack that also injured more than 70 people.
The victims say Cinemark's lax security allowed for the rampage. But the company says it couldn't have predicted an attack from a gunman as heavily armed as James Holmes.
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