match a mark on the door, supporting pistorius s version of events that he kicked the door and bashed it in with a bat with his legs on. if that was the mark of a prosthetic foot on the door, it would be consistent with him wearing his prosthesis. that is correct, my lady, if that s the mark of a prosthetic foot. our thanks to robyn kurnow for that report. criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor paul callan joins me now. i feel that might be the first time i ve seen the picture of oscar pistorius s leg covered in reeva s blood. it affects me. it would affect a jury without question. i m not sure it affects a seasoned judge in this case. this has been a story all along since it s a bench trial. his defense has done what every defense does, it picks apart everything it can bit by bit. that the police don t do their work perfectly. they never do. none of us does.
this is very much the beginning of a long process. for everybody in court, and of course, for the judge, this is the first time we ve seen the door and cricket bat. playing out the forensic case here will be key. robyn kurnow in for george rush, thank so much. and the missing airlines flight. the 42 ships, 39 aircraft, 12 countries, 27,000 nautical square miles. just a huge effort. we re monitoring though details of that press conference for you. let s tack a look at what s coming up on new day. chris cuomo. hey, how are you doing, guys. we re checking out the press conference. so far, it s just a rehashing of what they seem to know. the problem is that s far less than what they don t know. i don t know about you, but is this a very difficult story to follow. there s conflicting information and there s scenarios that just don t make sense. the mystery just continues to deepen. so we re going to try to suss through what is known, what is
altercation, a verbal altercation between the accused and the metro police officer. what was it about? the officer had picked up the accused weapon off the passenger seat, to which the accused had replied, you can t just touch another man s gun. reporter: it was an attempt by the prosecution to paint pistorius as a hot head. but international media coverage of the trial the court forbid. the state came out strong this morning. by the end of the day one has to say the defense were completely buoyant walking out of court. i think they feel they did very well with mr. frisco s testimony this afternoon. reporter: robyn kurnow, cnn at the pistorius trial in pray tore yeah, south africa. let s dig deeper now with a forensic scientist, also with us senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeff did the prosecution score
another man s gun. reporter: it was an attempt by the prosecution to paint pistorius as a hot head. but international media coverage of the trial the court forbid. the state came out strong this morning. by the end of the day one has to say the defense were completely buoyant walking out of court. i think they feel they did very well with mr. frisco s testimony this afternoon. reporter: robyn kurnow, cnn at the pistorius trial in pray tore yeah, south africa. let s dig deeper now with a forensic scientist, also with us senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeff did the prosecution score points today talking about the contents of her stomach, amount of urine in her bladder? i think they scored points every day. this has been a case that has gone very well for the prosecution. the prosecution has a story that this was a fight that this couple had, and he shot her in
sewing doubt perhaps in the judge s mind and the court s mind that as we sit there this identification of what these sounds were was so similar. and i think that s what s going to be key as we go through these next few days, next few weeks is does the sound of gunshots sound the same as a cricket bat whacking a heavy door at night? this is where we re going, very nuanced, very powerful and very technical at the same time. robyn kurnow live for us in south africa. robyn will have a lot more in this week s cnn spotlight, the oscar pistorius trial. it s going to run tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. back right after this. transferred money from his before larry instantly bank of america savings account to his merrill edge retirement account. before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling winter an underserved season . and before he quit his friend s leaf-raking business for not offering a 401k. larry knew the importance of preparing for retirement.