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A guide to Day 2 of the Colorado theater shooting trial

People enter the Arapahoe County Justice Center on the first day of the trial of Aurora movie theater shootings defendant James Holmes, in Centennial, Colo., Monday, April 27, 2015. As the trial begins, the key won't be whether he caused the carnage, but whether Holmes was sane at the time of the killings. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
People enter the Arapahoe County Justice Center on the first day of the trial of Aurora movie theater shootings defendant James Holmes, in Centennial, Colo., Monday, April 27, 2015. As the trial begins, the key won't be whether he caused the carnage, but whether Holmes was sane at the time of the killings. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) People enter the Arapahoe County Justice Center on the first day of the trial of Aurora movie theater shootings defendant James Holmes, in Centennial, Colo., Monday, April 27, 2015. As the trial begins, the key won't be whether he caused the carnage, but whether Holmes was sane at the time of the killings. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) – Testimony starts Tuesday, the second day of the long-awaited trial of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes. Here’s a look at where things stand:

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LONG-AWAITED ANSWERS

In the trial’s first hours Monday, prosecutors and defense lawyers filled in many gaps in the story of Holmes’ life: Two court-ordered psychiatric exams concluded he was sane at the time of the massacre. He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He died his hair reddish-orange because he thought it looked good, not because he wanted to look like The Joker, Batman’s nemesis.

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