i'm scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me and how you will react to me." >> cnn legal analyst kelly phelps is live outside the courthouse in pretoria. kelly, let me tell you the words that i heard there, scared, tantrum. you know, those are not good words for the defense, are they? >> reporter: no, but this isn't the first time we've heard those words. that was him repeating a text message that the state had relied on in their case. and essentially, what his defense team spent a lot of time doing today was putting on the record for the first time the over 1,700 messages that the state did not put on the record that were all loving, and placed those four negative messages in the context, essentially, of the normal ups and downs of any relationship. they also put messages immediately after those initial argumentive messages had been sent that essentially showed that those fights had been