Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes (C) leaves court for the last time before beginning his life sentence with no chance of parole after a hearing in Centennial, Colorado August 26, 2015. The judge in the Colorado movie massacre trial will condemn Holmes to 12 life sentences and potentially thousands more years in prison on Wednesday, and is expected to address Holmes directly as the proceedings conclude. Holmes was found guilty in July of murdering 12 people and wounding 70 when he opened fire inside a packed midnight screening of a Batman film at a multiplex in the Denver suburb of Aurora. REUTERS/RJ Sangosti/Pool 

District Attorney George Brauchler (C) listens to victim statements being read in court before Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes was sentenced to a life sentence with no chance of parole, in Centennial, Colorado August 26, 2015. REUTERS/RJ Sangosti/Pool 

Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes stands with defense attorney Daniel King (L) at a court hearing, before beginning his life sentence with no chance of parole, in Centennial, Colorado August 26, 2015. REUTERS/RJ Sangosti/Pool 

Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour Jr. speaks as he sentences Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes, before Holmes began his life sentence with no chance of parole, in Centennial, Colorado August 26, 2015. REUTERS/RJ Sangosti/Pool 

Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes sits with defense attorney Katherine Spengler (L) at a court hearing, before beginning his life sentence with no chance of parole, in Centennial, Colorado August 26, 2015. REUTERS/RJ Sangosti/Pool 

Colorado shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes makes his first court appearance in Aurora, Colorado, July 23, 2012. REUTERS/RJ Sangosti/Pool 

Police continue to investigate at the movie theater where 12 people were shot last Friday in Aurora, Colorado July 23, 2012. REUTERS/Rick Wilking 

The Century 16 Theatre where a masked gunman killed 14 people at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012. REUTERS/Evan Semon 

Police examine the car of James Eagen Holmes behind the theater where a gunman opened fire on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012. Holmes, 24, also booby-trapped his Aurora apartment with sophisticated explosives, creating a hazard for law-enforcement and bomb squad officers who swarmed to the scene. REUTERS/John Wark 

Investigators examine the shooting suspect's vehicle following an overnight shooting that killed 12 people at a midnight premiere of the new "Batman" movie in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver on July 20, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Hatfield 

Tom Sullivan holds up a photo of his son Alex Sullivan pleading the media to help find him, outside Gateway High School a few blocks from the scene of the Century 16 Theatre shootings in Aurora, Colorado July 20, 2012. REUTERS/ Evan Semon 

Law enforcement officers line a window with wires for an explosion at the apartment where James Eagan Holmes lived. An explosion occurred at the booby-trapped apartment of Holmes in Aurora, Colorado, July 21, 2012. REUTERS/Joshua Lott 

An investigator carries out a computer hard drive from the apartment of James Holmes. Deliveries received by Holmes, suggest months of "calculation and deliberation" leading up to the shooting rampage that killed 12 people in Aurora, Colorado July 21, 2012. REUTERS/Jeremy Papasso 

Firefighters move a propane tank outside the apartment complex where James Eagan Holmes lived. Police probing a Colorado shooting rampage prepared to send in a robot to detonate what they called a sophisticated booby-trap in the apartment of Holmes in Aurora, Colorado July 21, 2012. REUTERS/Joshua Lott 

Denise Paba, who lost her 6-year-old niece Veronica Moser, cries during a memorial for victims behind the theatre where a gunman opened fire last Friday on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado July 22, 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 

A Batman logo is covered in dirt left at the memorial for victims of the movie theater shooting in Aurora July 25, 2012. REUTERS/Rick Wilking 

People participate in a vigil for victims behind the theatre where James Holmes opened fire on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado July 22, 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 

A family portrait of shooting victim Gordon Cowden is seen behind a cross at a memorial site for victims behind the theater where gunman James Holmes opened fire on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado July 24, 2012. TREUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 

Marlene Knobbe (2nd R), grandmother of massacre victim Micayla Medek waves as Medek's casket is loaded into a hearse after her funeral in Aurora July 26, 2012. REUTERS/Rick Wilking 

Pallbearers escort the casket of Alexander J. "AJ" Boik, victim of the deadly shooting rampage, to a hearse after Boik's funeral in Aurora, Colorado July 27, 2012. REUTERS/Rick Wilking 

Naomi Hicks (R) hugs a woman at a memorial for victims, behind the theater where a gunman opened fire on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado July 21, 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 

A sign is seen at a memorial for the theater-goers killed in the July 20, 2012 mass shooting, in Aurora, Colorado July 27, 2012. REUTERS/Rick Wilking 

Students grieve as they leave a memorial honoring AJ Boik, who was killed when a gunman opened fire on moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado July 21, 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton 

Windan Palmer, 2, runs around pinwheels set up as a memorial to those killed in Aurora, Colorado July 28, 2012. REUTERS/Rick Wilking 

Victims and family of victims wearing Batman clothes arrive for the second court appearance of James Holmes, in Centennial, Colorado July 30, 2012. T REUTERS/Rick Wilking 

Rita Paulina, shot twice in the arm and once in the leg, leaves the second court appearance of James Holmes, the accused shooter in the July 20, 2012 theater shootings in Centennial, Colorado July 30, 2012. REUTERS/Rick Wilking 

Shooting victim Pierce O'Farrill and other guests wait before the reopening and remembrance of the Century Aurora Theater in Aurora, Colorado January 17, 2013. REUTERS/RJ Sangosti/Pool 

Jansen Young (L) who was in theater 9 with slain victim Johnthan Blunk stands with her aunt Sherrie Hawley after the reopening and remembrance of the Century Aurora Theater in Aurora, Colorado January 17, 2013. REUTERS/ RJ Sangosti/Pool 

Arlene and Robert Holmes, parents of accused Aurora theater gunman James Holmes, leave James Holmes' arraignment in Centennial, Colorado March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Rick Wilking 

James Holmes and his defense attorney Daniel King (R) sit in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in Centennial, Colorado June 4, 2013. REUTERS/Andy Cross/Pool 

James Holmes (L) is seated during his trial in Arapahoe County District Court in Centennial, Colorado in this still image captured from a pool video footage April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Reuters TV/Pool 

Victims and family members of victims leave Arapahoe County District Court in Centennial, Colorado April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Evan Semon 

Josh Nowlan (R) leaves Arapahoe County District Court in Centennial, Colorado April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Evan Semon 

Larry Trujillo (R), Denver's former fire chief and Colorado's director of Homeland Security, walks out of Arapahoe County District Court with his wife Michelle Trujillo in Centennial, Colorado April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Evan Semon