08-08-2014, 12:08 PM
Barry Roux Delivers the Defense Closing Arguments -- 08 August 2014
-Roux challenged all of the state's witnesses' credibility and the physical evidence handling; he essentially accuses the state of a conspiracy against Oscar Pistorius.
-He said that Pistorius responded to the perceived threat of an intruder in the same way that an "abused woman killing her husband" would.
-He told the judge that if she believes Pistorius acted reasonably based on his perceived threat, it was self defense and she must acquit him (he's asking for an exception to the standard reasonable bar for all citizens; he wants the judge to consider Pistorius differently because of his disability).
-Nel responded that even if the judge buys the acting under perceived threat story, she could not acquit Pistorius because in that case he would be guilty of at least culpable homicide.
-Roux tried to reconcile his own claims in court that it was putative self-defense with Pisotrius' subsequent testimony claiming that he didn't even know he was shooting -- that it was primal or involuntary shooting. (HOTD: Roux didn't succeed in cleaning up that mess.)
Read the Defense's Closing Arguments -- Live Blog
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...-live.html
Watch the Defense's Closing Arguments -- Trial Video
Part 1
Part 2
-Roux challenged all of the state's witnesses' credibility and the physical evidence handling; he essentially accuses the state of a conspiracy against Oscar Pistorius.
-He said that Pistorius responded to the perceived threat of an intruder in the same way that an "abused woman killing her husband" would.
-He told the judge that if she believes Pistorius acted reasonably based on his perceived threat, it was self defense and she must acquit him (he's asking for an exception to the standard reasonable bar for all citizens; he wants the judge to consider Pistorius differently because of his disability).
-Nel responded that even if the judge buys the acting under perceived threat story, she could not acquit Pistorius because in that case he would be guilty of at least culpable homicide.
-Roux tried to reconcile his own claims in court that it was putative self-defense with Pisotrius' subsequent testimony claiming that he didn't even know he was shooting -- that it was primal or involuntary shooting. (HOTD: Roux didn't succeed in cleaning up that mess.)
Read the Defense's Closing Arguments -- Live Blog
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...-live.html
Watch the Defense's Closing Arguments -- Trial Video
Part 1
Part 2