article_snippet.sent: James Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
article_snippet.sent: Jurors will also be asked to consider events that occurred before and after the July 20, 2012, shooting -- namely, evidence that appears to show James Holmes planned James Holmes attack, even going so far as to buy James Holmes movie ticket 12 days before, along with police allegations that officers who arrived to search James Holmes apartment had to navigate booby traps incorporating gasoline and grenades.
article_snippet.sent: James Holmes faces 165 counts, including murder and attempted murder charges, but there have already been some notable legal battles in the run-up to the actual trial.
article_snippet.sent: In March 2013, James Holmes offered to plead guilty so James Holmes could avoid the death penalty, a deal the district attorney declined.
article_snippet.sent: A few months later, a judge ruled that James Holmes had to be restrained during the actual trial, via a hidden harness anchored to the floor.
article_snippet.sent: The defense filed an objection, conceding that James Holmes exacted the violence but blaming James Holmes actions on mental illness.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Carlos Samour last year ordered James Holmes to submit to an additional sanity exam, saying that the previous test, conducted in 2013 at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, was "incomplete and inadequate.
highlights_snippet.sent: James Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2012 theater shooting .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: James Holmes trial begins Monday, and Homes faces 165 counts, including murder and attempted murder .