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James Eagan Holmes sent a notebook to his psychiatrist, his lawyers disclosed.
By NBC News staff
Court records confirmed Friday that James Eagan Holmes was seeing a psychiatrist before he allegedly opened fire in a Colorado movie theater last week, killing 12 people and wounding dozens of others.
The disclosure came in a motion(.pdf) seeking a hearing on what Holmes' lawyers called inappropriate leaks to the news media. The motion was granted, and the hearing is scheduled for?Monday.
The motion noted media reports this week that Holmes had sent a "package" to a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado-Denver medical school, where he was a first-year graduate student studying neuroscience and psychiatric disorders.
The existence of the package was first reported by Fox News. A law enforcement source later told NBC News that the package contained writings about killing people but wouldn't go into more detail.
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In their motion, Holmes' court-appointed attorneys disclosed that the package contained?a notebook and confirmed that Holmes was a patient of Lynne Fenton, the medical school's student mental health director. That means his communications with her should be protected under doctor-patient confidentiality rules. The disclosure, they argued, put his right to a fair trial "in serious jeopardy."
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