night. pistorius said he thought that his girlfriend was an intruder when he fired into his bathroom. throughout the hearing prosecutors said the story didn t add up. they claim he had a history of violence and killed his girlfriend after an argument. drew griffin has been in south africa looking into those claims that pistorius has a darker side. ha he found is very much at odds with the blade runner s public image. reporter: since he s been charged with premeditated murder some who say they knew this once beloved south african sports star are now willing to tell another side of oscar pistorius. it s like we re waiting for something like this to happen. reporter: mark bachelor, a south african soccer player, who socialized with pistorius says he never bought the idyllic image being portrayed in the media. he would have a trip switch. and he d get violent and angry and he d fight with people and cause a lot of problems. and i mean that s the
crime and punishment tonight, oscar pistorius has been keeping a low profile since released on bail eight days after killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. pistorius wept as his lawyers read his account of that deadly night. pistorius said he thought that his girlfriend was an intruder when he fired into his bathroom. throughout the hearing prosecutors said the story didn t add up. they claim he had a history of violence and killed his girlfriend after an argument. drew griffin has been in south africa looking into those claims that pistorius has a darker side. what he found is very much at odds with the blade runner s public image. reporter: since he s been charged with premeditated murder some who say they knew this once beloved south african sports star are now willing to tell another side of oscar pistorius. it s like we re waiting for something like this to happen. reporter: mark bachelor, a south african soccer player, who socialized with pistorius says he never bought the
crime and punishment tonight, oscar pistorius has been keeping a low profile since released on bail eight days after killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. pistorius wept as his lawyers read his account of that deadly night. pistorius said he thought that his girlfriend was an intruder when he fired into his bathroom. throughout the hearing prosecutors said the story didn t add up. they claim he had a history of violence and killed his girlfriend after an argument. drew griffin has been in south africa looking into those claims that pistorius has a darker side. what he found is very much at odds with the blade runner s
is hearing prosecutors announce that they would want the death penalty? i wouldn t say it s common, brooke. i wouldn t say it s uncommon. all defendants act differently when they hear that they may be subject to the ultimate punishment. i will say this. their defense attorneys likely prepared them for this possibility and that may be a reason why we re not seeing any reaction from either defendant. so we see in this picture, carmen barahona with the rozbury, maybe it s a red prison jumpsuit and you see jorge barahona there in some sort of a padded vest. what s the story with the vest, sunny? a lot of people are reporting this is a bulletproof vest because there s been so much outrage against these two defendants but in my experience that looks like a vest that is used when an inmate is on suicide watch. his defense says he s so
frankly the evidence isn t supporting that. i think not only are we going to see a conviction of both of them but they are both looking at death penalty. jurors going to be back in court monday. we ll see what s happening there. now let s talk about what s happening at rutgers university. this is something that makes people feel sick from the top and bottom of their stomach. now let s talk about, we re hearing prosecutors say they are doing to be pursuing some privacy violations. there might be more in the form of wiretapping, one-party, two-party consent, hate crimes, whether on the state or federal level. what will prosecutors be going after here? yeah. the hate crime, new jersey has a very important hate crime bill. if they were to bring charges based on that, to show some sort of bias or this person was singled out because he was gay, even they were able to bring charges that would bring another five years to the five year max