and recently. primacy is beginning of the case, recently is end of the case. those are the two most important times in jury trial or in this case a bench trial. in the state s case the most important witnesses were the beginning witnesses that heard screams and say there were multiple gunshots. now in this case there is delay, that takes it farther duration away and allows the defense more time to prepare and hopefully the judge will consider consider the defense s case and spend less time focusing on the state s primary evidence. jon: fred, the judge and two assessors heard the prosecution case until now. all been prosecution. all anti-oscar pistorius. now they have a week to think about it. not only that, phil s a great lawyer. right analysis, wrong outcome. primacy and latency a exactly what we re talking about. but here is the thing. they heard the state s case which ended what i thought was compelling testimony and first shot game through the door and ripped through this woman s
they have a week for that to peck colate and sink in. people filter information based on conclusions they have come to. now they look at the defense case, having thought about this for a week. i think inures to the prosecution benefit big-time, not that they need it. jon: phil, there is awful lot of, this is a pretty tall hill for the defense to climb it seems. there was testimony she had eaten a couple hours before the shooting which happened at 1:00 a.m. oscar pistorius claimed they were both in bet asleep by 10 p.m. there were screams heard ahead of the gunshots or maybe basically concurrent with the gunshots. doesn t sound like the story that he told investigators really matches up here. no. oscar has a difficult time. take away the keystone cops because they did a horrendous investigation but the state s powerful witnesses were these original screams that documented that she was in the bathroom screaming. he could have heard. so the most important testimony is going to be oscar.
jenna: a lot of big news stories to round out week. hello, i hope you re off to a great friday so far. i m jenna lee. jon: i m jon scott. new hope for the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 three weeks after it went down. five aircraft spotting objects of various colors during today s search in a new section of the southern indian ocean. objects that could be debris from the plane. the new search area for the lost jet moved about 700 miles to the northeast after new data analysis suggested that the plane flew on its ghost mission faster and ran out of fuel more quickly than previously thought. william la jeunesse live in our l.a. bureau with that william? reporter: well, jon, international team of experts which now includes the ntsb and the faa, they went back, reexamined recalculated early radar data from the first three hours of flight when the we were told the plane went up to 40,000 feet from 35,000. they determined that flight 370 went faster than previously thoug
let s play some of that. phil, i want to get your reaction. all i can offer you is i heard screaming. do you know if it was long before the shots or short before the shots? you only remember screaming, is that correct? it was, it is difficult to judge the amount of time that lapsed. so, and my short might be your long. yes. i don t want to pick a time. there were, the screams and then the shots started. jon: so, phil, he is one of three neighbors who are saying he heard screams and then gunshots. doesn t that do a lot to destroy oscar pistorius s defense? that, you know the state s witnesses, the most powerful witnesses they are going to present at trial, that is very common. you have primacy and recently so they put their best witness up
as witnesses testified hearing screams best gunshots that killed his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. the testimony of course raises doubts over pistorius s own story he thought she was an intruder. another witness also coming forward saying pistorius asked his friend to take the fall for a separate bun charge he also faces stemming from a restaurant shooting. here is the testimony. i don t know what happened. how the gun went off but he did apologize and say, i m so sorry. it was a mistake. are you okay? is everybody okay? i do remember oscar saying, please, to darren, just with you, i don t want any attention around me. say it was you. and then once that was said, the people from the restaurant came to the table and that s when darren said it was him. jon: joining me now, legal panel, anna young, former prosecutor. phil snyder, a criminal defense attorney. that reckless discharge of a firearm chargings it is also part of this case, anna.