The judge overseeing the Aurora movie theater shooting murder case has denied the last of the defense’s motions to keep evidence from trial.

In eight separate orders issued Monday, Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour rejected motions from the defense to keep jurors from hearing about evidence found in James Holmes’ iPhone, iPod, computers, e-mails and bank records.

It appears that evidence from the iPhone, in particular, will play an important role at trial because investigators say they found pictures on the phone of Holmes posing with guns and also what appear to be photos taken of movie theater doors as part of possible planning for the attack that killed 12 people and wounded dozens more.

Defense attorneys had challenged the pieces of evidence by arguing that the search warrants used to obtain them weren’t specific enough. For instance, the defense attorneys said detectives didn’t attempt to set a date range for the e-mails sought, making their search “unconstitutionally overbroad,” according to their motion.

But Samour rejected that argument, writing that the massive scale of the attack required police to think big in their investigation.

“No date range could have been justified,” Samour wrote in several of the orders issued Monday. “Officers realized that these were no impromptu crimes; extensive planning and preparation had obviously gone into the shooting and the booby-trapping of the apartment. But they had no way of knowing whether it had taken months, a year, two years, or longer to complete such planning and preparation.”

In another of the orders issued Monday, Samour said prosecutors can also use records from Holmes’ credit union, despite police having initially obtained those records illegally. Prosecutors said the illegal seizure resulted from an honest mistake by police, which they set straight when they learned about it nearly a year later. Defense attorneys argued that prosecutors shouldn’t get a “do-over.”

On Monday, Samour ruled that they should.

“There is no allegation of prosecutorial misconduct and no basis to sanction the prosecution,” Samour wrote. “Police officers alone were responsible for the 2012 illegal search and seizure.”

Samour’s orders on Monday mark the last of the major fights over what evidence should be admitted at trial. Previously, Samour has denied most other defense motions to block jurors from hearing about statements Holmes made to police or items found in his apartment.

Meanwhile, Samour has yet to rule on whether Holmes, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, should undergo a second court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. The trial is on hold until Samour makes his decision.

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