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What's it like in there?

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It's a question I keep getting in some form as the Aurora theater trial crawls forward: "what's it like in there?" As I write this we are in week 3 of what's anticipated to be a 4-5 month long mass-murder trial, so large in scope that it can be hard to grasp. This case has more victims of attempted murder (those wounded in the July 2012 shooting) than there are seats in the courtroom. Countless others are touched by the loss of the 12 people who died as a result of the attack. The truth is... there just isn't a simple answer to the question of what it's like to cover this trial. There are many moments in which I feel like I'm on a 1,000-mile long moving walkway: this thing is moving, but I can't even imagine being near the end yet. There are other moments that I know I'll remember for the rest of my life. I can't even begin to fathom what it's like to have lost a person to an attack like this, but I do get glimpses. Insid