(Reuters) - Attorneys for a man accused of killing 12 people at a Colorado movie theater last July have not made a legitimate offer to have him plead guilty in the case, prosecutors have said, the Denver Post newspaper reported on Thursday.
Defense attorneys for James Holmes, 25, said in court papers filed on Wednesday that they had offered to have him plead guilty in exchange for a life prison term.
Such an agreement would spare Holmes the death penalty in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
But prosecutors, in a response filed with the court on Thursday, said there was no acceptable offer on the table, the Post reported in a story on its website.
"There is not ? and has never been ? an actual or unqualified 'offer' to plead guilty," prosecutors wrote, according to the Post. "The prosecution indicated that it could not consider such an offer without specific additional information, which the defense refused to provide."
Holmes faces multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder stemming from the July 20 massacre at a showing of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colorado that also wounded 58 people.
Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler has said that he would formally inform the court during a hearing scheduled for Monday whether his office would seek the death penalty against Holmes.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb and Keith Coffman; Editing by Kevin Gray, Bernard Orr)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/colorado-theater-shooter-lawyers-lack-legitimate-plea-offer-000802456.html
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