the judge is evaluating the facts and the facts only and with regard to him vomiting or holding his ears so he doesn t have to hear it or putting his hands down into his face, it does not have the impact it would upon civilians. i say that normally, with any kind of normal procedure or normal court case. but this is not a normal defendant, is it, paul? i just wonder if there is anything to this. look, i always smell a rat. that s the first thing i do, when i look into a courtroom, i always smell a rat. skeptical. i m skeptical. this a national hero. and i don t think that could be lost on the human that sits up on that bench, no matter what. no, it can t. we have to remember, that judge has two civilian advisers who will help decide their innocence. professors sit on either side of her and help her get through the facts. exactly. and the way those assessors react to oscar pistorius and this display of emotion certainly is a big factor in the case. you know something? i thin
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to help him at all. and i ll tell you why. this is not a premeditateded, planned, cold, calculating murder. this is a crime of passion. i don t think anybody can deny that if it is a crime that he loved her. and a lot of times when these cases occur, there s great remorse afterwards that the person has been killed. but it s the hot headedness, the trigger happiness. the recklessness. the same thing that makes him react this way in an open courtroom made him do what he did that night, so prosecutors will contend at the end of this case. there was it testimony regarding the reckless behavior concerning other evidence for other counts he s facing, ashleigh, regarding the firing of the gun in the restaurant when he was with his friends. right. in a normal case, we wouldn t hear about it, it goes to propensity, because you did that then, you re doing it now. but as a judge, you hear it b it. both of us have tried murder cases. and you know what the motive is usually? love ma
gun, how was that being how do you establish that i m shooting him out of fear when i m saying to you that he ran from me, not toward me. right. or that he was pointing a gun at me. well, you can t. an that s the problem. that s why the prosecutor said his story had evolved over time, and the truth is the truth. it does not change. dunn s story has changed. it s gotten better as time has gone on. now in court he is saying jordan was outside the car, coming at him with a shotgun in his hands and saying i m going to kill you, and even using a racial term, calling him a cracker. these are things he never said earlier when he was first arrested. these are things the story has changed over time. and the prosecutors are hoping that the jurors will pick up on this, that dunn s story has changed, he has not been consistent, and that he is lying and trying to make a case of self-defense for himself when there is just nothing there. ken, the makeup of the jury, four white females, four