| 1. | Audio/Visuals | Music | Oscar putting on his legs |
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| 2. | Audio/Visuals | Music | Starting block and Starting gun and |
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| 3. | Audio/Visuals | Gun shots
ANIMATED WORDS ON SCREEN & VOICE | Oscar running I don't think of myself as disabled. I have limits, but we all have limits and like anyone else I also have many talents.
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| MORE SEQUENCES OF OSCAR RUNNING OR AT EVENTS. GVs WITH SFX?
ROSTRUM OF HEADLINES SHOWING OSCAR AT TOP OF HIS GAME. |
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| Gun shots
CRASH ZOOM INTO (THE ABOVE) HEADLINES IN TIME TO SHOTS. | CU of gun firing and smoking |
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| 6. | Title | BURDEN OF TRUTH | Text on black with gun shot |
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| 7. | VO: | Part man, part machine, Oscar Pistorius looked like he'd stepped out of the future.
FUTURISTIC IMAGES - AERIAL SHOTS FUTURISTIC CITIES - TIME LAPSE CARS - OSCAR BLADES.
Like some mythical super-man, Oscar conquered the world at the Olympics.
Fortune smiled on the young superhero.
And then the wheel turned. |
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| Four gunshots, in the heat of the African night, would change Oscar's destiny forever.
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FADE UP
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| 9. | June:
June: | I had a phone call at half past seven that morning, and the man said to me do you have a daughter, and I said yes. And he said is it Reeva, and I said yes. He said there's been an accident and she's been shot.
C/AWAY OF EXTERIOR HOUSE IN PE WITH SOUND EFFECTS ONLY. ATMOSPHERIC PE. THEN BACK:
And the man said she's dead. | Strap: June Steenkamp - Reeva Steenkamp's mother |
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| MIKE PHOTO WITH OSCAR HORSES |
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Mike | [15:59:33] i was actually on my way to the track to work my horses in the early hours of the morning and I received a phone call from my wife// MORE HORSES - ATMOSPHERIC and she told me the details of what had happened and I just stopped my car and burst into tears because of the way I feel about him it's like it was as if it was one of my own children [15:59:57] | v/o over horse training etc.
Strap: Mike Azzie - Close family friend of Oscar |
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| 12. | VO | Four shots. Two lives dramatically overturned, in an instant.
Oscar has been charged with murder. The State's indictment says that Oscar ‘did unlawfully and intentionally kill a person, to wit,
REEVA STEENKAMP.
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a 29 year-old female.
Oscar says he made a tragic mistake. He thought he was firing on an intruder in his house. He was trying to protect Reeva.
But is Oscar telling the truth?
That's the key question when he goes to trial in March next year.
That's the only question. |
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| 13. | Steve Tuson: | [16:55:14] The entire trial will be fought on one issue. Intention. If his intention was I don't like you and I want to kill you then he is guilty of murder. If his honest belief was there was an intruder in my home and am justified in protecting myself and my girlfriend then he would escape liability. | Strap: Steve Tuson - Professor of Law - Wits Law Clinic Court buildings, Oscar in court, Oscar and Reeva |
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| 14. | VO | The Prosecution is certain Oscar intended to kill. They want him convicted for murder, even if he thought he was firing on a burglar.
Even then, says the State's Indictment, the accused shot with the direct intention to kill a person. An error in persona will not affect the intention to kill a human being.
The Indictment also charges Oscar with unlawful possession of ammunition, some point 38 calibre rounds, for which he has no licensed firearm.
PAUSE - IMAGE OF ROUNDS - OSCAR - ROSTRUM.
Oscar's destiny lies in his own hands, and in his words.
He could have remained silent. He could have said nothing about the events of Valentine's Night.
He could have made the world wait.
Instead, Oscar wanted bail, and to get that, he chose to explain what had happened.
His explanation came in a sworn Affidavit. |
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| 15. | Steve Tuson: | [16:34:22] This is a way to obtain the version of the defence under oath in advance of the trial, because it binds the accused and our law now requires or permits the record of the bail proceedings to be admitted at the trial of the matter. |
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| 16. | Renier: | [00:03:50:18] Obviously you are very careful in what you say during such a bail application, because you have a right to remain silent. |
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| 17. | VO: | A young woman died violently. The man who killed her was her lover. Her life was cut tragically short. Now, his future hangs in the balance. Oscar's explanation of what happened in his home needs to be tested.
END PART 1
PART 2
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| Did Oscar Pistorius murder his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day? Or was it a case of mistaken identity? Oscar says he believed he was firing on an intruder, and was trying to protect Reeva. To test his claims, some of the best legal minds in the nation are gathering, and laying their plans. The Defence must prove Oscar's telling the truth. That he made an honest mistake. Barry Roux has that crucial but formidable task, and over 3 decades of experience to help him. |
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| 19. | VO: | The Prosecution says Oscar deliberately intended to kill. The charge is that he intended to kill Reeva. But at the very least, they're sure he intended to kill a human being. They must prove Oscar's account is a lie. Gerrie Nel has a fearsome reputation for exposing deception. |
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| 20. | Steve Tuson: | [17:19:49] We will see sudden dramatic exchanges by the lawyers, detailed cross examination. It will be absolutely riveting and it will be worth watching. [17:19:01] Innocence or guilt can hang on a tiny detail. |
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| 21. | V/O | Premeditated murder is the most serious charge against an individual. No justice system in the world takes it lightly. Prosecutors know, if they're successful, they'll be condemning the accused to a life of suffering. In Oscar's case that could life imprisonment, and, of course, the immediate loss of his international status. Because the punishment for premeditated murder is so very severe, it's an extremely difficult charge to prove. |
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| 22. | Steve Tuson: | [16:37:04] I think at the outside the state would be trying to say that once the victim took refuge behind the door that there was a cold calculated decision to kill her and he's trying to say that that is premeditated, ADD ATMOSPHERIC PAUSE HERE - WITH CUTAWAY TO OTHER PIX, SOUND EFFECTS ONLY. THEN BACK... it's a stretch in my view. |
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| 23. | Renier: | [10:04:08] I am personally of the opinion that it can never be premeditated murder under those circumstances, there must be an extent and a degree of planning. | Strap: Renier |
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| 24. | V/O | However traumatic the consequences for the accused, it's the State's duty to ensure Justice is served. That's why the Court must be impartial and moderating. And all accused are entitled to the very best Defence they can get. Oscar claims he was in a panic and made a terrible mistake. That's his Defence. The Prosecution claims that's a lie. They find many aspects of Oscar's Affidavit "improbable". So, they're picking apart his version of events. |
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| 25. | Steve Tuson: | [16:53:58] The State has to prove that Oscar intentionally unlawfully killed another person. Now the intention is, two factors, that his aim and object was to cause the death of the person but he must also have known what he was doing at the time was wrong. |
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| 26. | V/O | The Prosecution claims that Oscar and Reeva argued that night. They say witnesses heard angry voices and screams. But even if it's proven that Oscar did kill Reeva in a fit of rage, that, in itself, might not constitute premeditated murder. A vibrant, young life was lost. Whatever the true cause, Reeva Steenkamp, a 29 year old female, was shot dead, and the tragedy of that loss is beyond dispute. |
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| 27. | V/O | Since news broke of the tragic killing, people around the world have their own questions. The key one is: how did Oscar miss that Reeva was not in bed, that the bed was empty?
Atmospheric pause with pix & sound effects.
Oscar woke in the small hours of Valentine's morning, went to his balcony to bring in a fan, then panicked when he heard a noise from his bathroom. He assumed Reeva was safely in bed. That assumption would have fatal consequences. Oscar says it was too dark to see anything. In his Affidavit, he repeatedly uses the phrase "pitch dark". Only he knows just how dark it was in his bedroom at 3 o' clock that morning. But is it possible that, had Oscar stopped to look, even in the "pitch dark", he might have seen that the bed was empty? Kathy Bridgens is an opthalmologist specialising in how the retina processes light and darkness. |
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| 28. | Kathy: | [11:19:44] Well if I were to walk from a very dark room onto a semi dark patio or balcony and then I were to walk back into the room then you would have to have some form of dark adaption. | Animation |
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| 29. | Kathy: | [11:14:28] In an average suburban environment you will be able to see something, you will see shapes. [11:14:48] One must also remember that in the dark one's pupils are also bigger and that increases your ability to take what very little light there is with at least 30%. |
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| 30. | V/O | Even if Oscar's eyes could have made out shapes in the dark of his bedroom, that doesn't prove he did see the bed was empty and Reeva was not there.
Oscar describes a ‘sense of terror rushing over him' when he heard a noise from his bathroom. Panic and fear can make us all blind to the obvious.
Oscar assumed it was an intruder. He grabbed his gun, then rushed on his stumps to the bathroom.
He shouted to Reeva to call the Police.
Seeing an open window, Oscar assumed the intruder was in the toilet.
"Horror", "fear", "grave danger": these are the words Oscar uses to describe his state of mind.
And so he shot.
Time, and again.
Shot, after shot, after shot, after shot.
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| 31. | Steve Tuson: | [16:49:32] He cannot raise the defence I was being attacked and I defended myself. He has to raise the defence was I believed I was being attacked and in the circumstances defended myself. |
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| 32. | V/O | If Oscar genuinely believed he was in danger, his lawyers could claim Putative Self Defence.
ROSTRUM OF DICTIONARY ENTRY - DEFINITION OF "PUTATIVE" - FLASH HIGHLIGHT ‘SUPPOSITION', ‘SUPPOSED', ‘BELIEVED TO BE...' |
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| 33. | Martin:
| [15:09:47] A typical example of putative self defence would be were although a person shot and killed somebody were it was not legally justifiable that person can explain to a court that they believed in the circumstances that there was a very real threat and that they had to respond to that threat in what they believe to be a reasonable and justifiable way. I might add it's a very difficult defence to prove. |
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| 34. | V/O | Even if Oscar were successful in his claim of Putative Self-Defence, he could still be convicted of culpable homicide.
That he did kill someone, and he was negligent in doing so. Although he genuinely thought his own life was in danger, this was not a reasonable mistake to make in the circumstances.
It's a far lesser charge than pre-meditated murder. |
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V/O | MOODY PAUSE HERE - WITH ATMOSPHERIC SEQUENCES OF SILVERWOODS ESTATE AT NIGHT, THE BEDROOM etc.
It was the statements made by neighbours - witnesses - which led the Police to believe that Oscar might be guilty of murder.
The Indictment refers to witnesses who heard a woman scream, followed by moments of silence, then heard gunshots and then more screaming.
ATMOSPHERIC PAUSE - MOODY SEQUENCE
Oscar's own statement gives a different story. But people make mistakes.
And people lie.
Only one witness never lies.
A silent witness, but one which can speak volumes.
END PART 2
PART 3
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| 36. | V/O
Hennie: | The truth of what happened in Oscar's apartment on Valentine's Day could lie not in people's words, but in the testimony of a silent witness.
The beauty of physical evidence is that it tells a story. It is objective, it cannot lie. [16:18:55:08] We know that people edit their own stories, they tell you what they want you to know, they exaggerate, they have alternative motives while they tell stories. Objective evidence on the other hand is almost 100 percent reliable. |
Strap: Hennie |
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| 37. | V/O | The physical evidence at the scene can tell the whole truth of what happened.
Oscar knows that. In his Affidavit, he says he's confident "the objective facts will not refute my version as it is the truth".
But you have to know how to understand, how to decipher the truth you are being told by the physical evidence.
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| 38. | Hennie:
| [16:25:08:24] We look at the firearm, we look at the blood, there were cartridges left behind. There were cartridges found. Projectiles were found within the toilet, the toilet door we know it was damaged by the rounds that were fired. | Gun, bullets, animation |
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| 39. | V/O | Oscar says he fired at the toilet door, then came back to the bedroom.
When he saw that Reeva was not there, that's when he put on his prosthetic legs, ran back to the toilet, and tried to break it down.
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| 40. | Hennie:
| I would suspect that there were marks [16:26:08:22] at the bottom of the door because as Oscar says in his statement he used his prosthesis to kick the door. | Gun, bullets, animation |
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| 41. | V/O | The toilet door is a crucial piece of the physical evidence. It carries the indelible marks of the fatal shots. How those shots were fired could support, or undermine, Oscar's version of events. |
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| 42. | Cobus: | [05:51:27] The eject direction and the distance of the cartridge cases, the type of ammunition that has been used, the type of firearm that has been used, the trajectories through the door, the angle [05:51:34] through the door, if the shots are grouped in certain positions, if they are fired randomly through the door... a totality of all the ballistic aspects will play a role in this case. | Strap: Cobus |
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| 43. | V/O | The ballistics have another story to tell.
Oscar says he fired the shots while he was standing on his stumps. He'd been too frantic to put on his prosthetic legs.
On his stumps alone, Oscar stands 157 cms tall.
On his prosthetic legs, Oscar stands 184 cms tall.
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| 44. | JC: | He walks around [19:42:27] without his prosthesis and he fires shots through the door * The firearm was held * [ADD] This will most likely determine if Oscar was on his prosthesis or not. | Split screen animation lead into Cobus |
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| 45. | V/O | If Oscar had his prosthetic legs on, it would show that he lied about the moment he fired the shots.
It would show that he'd had time to put them on - crucial seconds indicating a calmer state of mind, not panic, and possible pre-meditation before the shooting.
Just before Oscar's indictment, it was widely reported that a leaked ballistics report proved Oscar was on his stumps as the shots were fired. Word spread around the world, like wildfire, as if this showed Oscar was telling the truth, and was innocent of premeditated murder.
PAUSE - HEADLINES - OSCAR.
Only when the ballistics report is presented in Court will we know what it actually found.
But there are some who believe the height of the shots on the toilet door won't actually help to reveal the height of the shooter.
| Animation firing 1.5m top shot, Cobus firing in standing position. State animation, split screen Oscar/State's to grow to full screen |
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| 46. | Cobus: | Once you're dealing with the height of the firearm, shooters can use the different styles of shooting. Were I was in this position firing the shots in a standing position meaning that I had my arms stretched out my height is important. I could have well fired the same shots the difference is I could have fired out of the hip holding the firearm at this height. |
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| 47. | V/O | More important than the height of the shots could be the distance from which they were fired at the door.
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| 48. | JC: | [19:44:25] What I have done is I have fired with a normal 9mm parabellum. I fired at 5, 10, 15, 20 centimetres. This is what you would expect to find on the door.. up to about 75cm, or a little bit less give or take 10 or 20 centimetres, you will find powder residue on the door. So they most likely would have tested the door chemically, which will also indicate [19:45:09], in other words the further you will go away the powder residue will grow or go bigger and less but you will still have a concentric circle. | Split screen of the two experimental doors |
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| 49. | V/O | Were the fatal shots that killed Reeva fired by someone 157 cms tall, or someone 184 cms tall?
How far away from the door was the person firing the gun?
The toilet door is not the only way to work out the angle and power of the bullets that killed Reeva.
The post-mortem examination showed that Reeva was shot through her right hip, right elbow and right temple. There was also a graze through the little finger of her left hand.
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| 50. | JC: | We don't know where Reeva was standing or sitting behind the toilet (also how he came up with grouping of bullets) |
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| 51. | Steve Naidoo: | What you see here on the right temple, or the right temple bone, is a very neat, well circumscribed and distinct punched out circular defect that's typical of an entrance wound but it must be remembered that this is a neat stable bullet entry. If bullet or bullets had passed through the door and slowed down sufficiently or even fragmented they would have struck to cause this kind of atypical irregular defect and I would expect for the bullet to have been found inside the skull or the brain.
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| 52. | V/O | In all shootings, where bullets enter and leave a body, and blood is spilt, clues are left by the way fluid splashes after an explosion.
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| 53. | Cobus: | [05:59:14] Once you're dealing with bloodshed, the minute a projectile created entrance wounds, you immediately from that second, you have the back splatter towards the door for instance if she was close to a door, you will have back splatter towards the direction of projectile as it penetrated the skin, but you will also have forward splatter if the projectile exits the skin. So you have this impact splatter which [05:59:38] we call impact splatter found, if the room is quite small you will find it in both either on a door or on a wall next to the door as well as the opposite wall. |
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| PAUSE - SHOTS OF BLOOD SPATTER OR OTHER. POSSIBLE DRONE BENEATH OR SILENCE. |
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| 55. | Cobus: | This pattern here is an impact spatter pattern or stain pattern and this pattern just tell you that the source was a little bit away from the wall and it created a pattern right across the surface here. |
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| 56. | V/O | The direction of the bullets, the distance from which they were fired, the splatter patterns of the blood after the shootings - these are some of the forensic details which can unveil what really happened in Oscar's bathroom.
And whether he's telling the truth.
There is further physical evidence which could contain vital clues.
It was a hot summer's night. Reeva had been in bed. She was shot in the toilet. It's easy to make assumptions about why Reeva was up in the middle of the night.
But forensic investigation is about testing all assumptions, and going beyond them. To hard fact.
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| 57. | Steve Naidoo: | [06:29:55] The examination of the clothing would be crucial to determine whether or not that clothing was [06:30:17] on that particular part of that body at that moment in time because it would infer whether or not she was wearing that article or that garment and help the court come to a decision, as to, at the time of the shooting [06:30:32] was she fully or partially clothed, like it would be important to determine body orientation and alignment and position. Was she sitting at the toilet seat or was she standing or was she turning or what exactly was she doing? |
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| 58. | V/O | The autopsy found Reeva's bladder empty. |
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| 59. | Hennie:
| [16:28:32:03] We don't know whether the water inside the toilet bowl had been examined. I surely hope that it has. |
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| 60. | V/O | It's an important piece of the puzzle, to help establish the sequence of events in the small hours of Valentine's Day. But water can be a challenge in forensic investigation. |
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| 61. | Steve Naidoo: | [06:28:09] Testing the urine in the toilet bowl I would think would be probably less valuable or less helpful and the reason for this is that apart from the dilution that you have in a toilet bowl the amount of DNA, the DNA content, in urine is very small |
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| 62. | V/O | We live today in an age when our every movement can be tracked, our every step monitored.
Even in the middle of the night, even in our most private spaces, our most private moments.
A smart-phone is a tracking device. Most people have one. Most people keep them close by.
Four were found in Oscar's bedroom and bathroom after the killing.
He might have had others, but these four ‘black box recorders' could reveal why those four fateful shots were fired.
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| 63. | Danny: | [17:17:16] The cell phone forensics [?] has picked up quite a lot in the last couple of years. With the newer smart phones we can retrieve emails, documents, presentations, smses, [17:17:49] your whatsapps, also from your photographs, in the background of your photographs we can extract for example GPS coordinates so we can place photographs. We can place persons, people, where they move around because with the new type of [17:18:09] smart phones they're actually recording all those GPS coordinates.
ATMOSPHERIC PAUSE WITH CELLPHONE PICTURES ETC. & SOUND EFFECTS. | Strap: Danny |
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| 64. | Danny: | In this situation data recovery will be very important because the state will need to, or the investigation team will need to be aware of any potential evidence that could have been deleted or removed. For example if there was smses sent out that evening that somebody wanted to remove that can be recovered or if there is evidence that.. of internet activity or calls that was deleted, all of that information will be able to be recovered from the phones.
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PART 4
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| 65. | V/O | IF Oscar Pistorius has lied about the events of Valentine's night, the forensic evidence could pick apart his web of deception.
If he's telling the truth, it will serve to confirm his story and explain his actions.
One thing is certain. Oscar was in a state of high emotion when he fired those shots.
Was it high passion, rage perhaps, between two lovers?
Or was it terror of an intruder?
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| 66. | Steve Tuson: | [16:57:24] The court will test his behaviour according to the standard of the ordinary reasonable person and see how far short of that standard he fell. |
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| 67. | Ian: | [12:45:23] What we find with the research is that there is three ways of reacting to fear. The first way is fight the second way is flight and then the third way is freeze. Now, fight of course is going on confronting the intruder the real or imagined intruder dealing with the matter [12:45:51]. Flight of course would be get out of the place run away to lock yourself up and freeze would be just to do nothing about it.
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| 68. | V/O | Whether it was rage or fear, Oscar clearly felt vulnerable.
Both rage and fear are reactions to feeling threatened, emotionally, physically, perhaps both at once.
Could this - Oscar's overwhelming feeling of vulnerability - be a key to why he reacted so violently?
Losing his legs could have made the young Oscar feel most vulnerable. Immobile. Reliant upon others. Totally dependent.
Trevor Brauchman is the man who prevented Oscar's loss from becoming a burden. He created the legs that made it possible for Oscar to lead a normal life.
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| 69. | Trevor: | [12:50:16] On Oscar's day to day prosthesis he could basically do what any other able bodied person can do, there is very little he couldn't do | Strap: Trevor Brauchman - |
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| 70. | V/O | But Trevor also knows the impact on Oscar's state of mind if he wasn't wearing his prostheses.
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| 71. | Trevor: | [12:57:09] Oscar feeling vulnerable on his stumps? I think very much so, because for one he is going to be //shorter. So instead again of looking down at situations he suddenly a lot shorter a person. Mobility-wise he is not as fast so he cannot [12:57:39] run away, run down stairs, it's just not going to happen. He will have to slowly climb down the stairs// |
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| 72. | Ian: | Being vulnerable [12:52:24] doesn't mean you have to back up you can feel vulnerable and if you have the personality type of going into situations of confronting it and dealing with it, so it feels very consistent to me that if he felt vulnerable he would have done with what is in his personality, which then is to address the issue. |
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| 73. | Steve Tuson: | [16:44:03] If as a disabled person he felt more vulnerable than another person that would go towards him being able to establish a very real fear on his part which negatives his intention, to confirm his belief that he was the subject of a vicious attack which he needed to defend himself. In other words an able body person may be judged according to a higher standard and would not be as fearful as a disabled person.
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| 74. | V/O | That Oscar felt himself vulnerable is also indicated by the extremely high level of security protecting his home.
Electric fences, guard-dogs, alarms, cameras.
A wealthy, good-looking global celebrity, Oscar knew he could be a prime target. He already had been. He says he's experienced death threats, and been the victim of violence and burglaries.
In fact, it's said a sense of ever-present danger in South Africa has altered the national psyche.
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| 75. | Ian: | South Africans are as a rule living with a huge degree of PTSD. Post traumatic stress disorder means that we have all been exposed to or watched or heard or a family member of ours has been exposed to some violent crime. |
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| 76. | V/O | With his high - perhaps excessive- sense of vulnerability, and if he felt genuinely under threat, Oscar's reaction on Valentine's night, however violent, might be explicable.
It's one line the Defence could take.
That far from being a murderer, Oscar is no different from any other young man.
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| 77. | Ian: | [12:22:49] Young men between 18 and 25 have the highest accident rate, they have the highest rate of being able to be murdered during that time, highest rate of drug use and abuse during that time. Is he a higher risk than other people? I doubt it. |
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| 78. | Adam: | He might have an aggressive side as do I and any other guy [15:18:16] so I truly do believe that he was trying to defend Reeva. |
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| V/O | The Prosecution, of course, will argue differently.
They believe Oscar has a propensity for aggressive behaviour. And so they've added to the Indictment two further gun related charges, alleging that Oscar recklessly fired a gun in public.
They will strive to prove that Oscar Pistorius is unlike other young men.
That he is, in fact, a killer.
A killer who cannot be believed.
FADE TO BLACK
THEN SYNC UP IN SUCCESSION WITH SLIGHT ECHO EFFECT ON SOUND.
INTERCUT EACH SYNC WITH IMAGE OF OSCAR - AS IF OSCAR IS ‘HEARING' THESE COMMENTS IN HIS HEAD.
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| 79. | Martin: | You don't go towards danger you, go away from danger. [15:25:42] You seek to protect those that you think that you have an obligation to protect. There is no evidence at this stage that Pistorius took any steps to ascertain where his partner was, [15:26:04] to protect and preserve the two of them.
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| 80. | Magistrate: | I have difficulty in appreciating why the accused would not seek to ascertain who exactly was in the toilet. I have a problem also as to why the accused would further venture into danger knowing full well that the intruder was in the toilet.
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| 81. | Andre: | [12:41:06] Under requirements of the use of lethal force, everybody that goes through accredited firearm training is then exposed to when they can use the firearm and when they can't use the firearm.
IMAGE OSCAR
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| 82. | Renier: | [10:00:03:15] When one deals with murder one deals with intent, direct intent to kill another person. When one deals with culpable homicide we deal with a negligent action that caused a death of [talking over each other] .. the moral blameworthiness differs extensively. |
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| 83. | Renier: | [10:10:46:11] in this instance there is no doubt in my mind that I would approach the state with a suggestion to a plea and sentence agreement on culpable homicide, in that, I overstepped the bounds of my putative private defence.
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| 84. | V/O | The evening of February 13th. The day before Valentine's Day.
Reeva drives into Silverwoods Estate.
In her car, she has the Valentines gift she's chosen for Oscar and carefully gift-wrapped.
Their relationship is barely three months old. Anticipation and passion must have been high.
Like lovers all over the world, Reeva hopes for a perfect evening with her partner - a world famous athlete, superstar, an icon to generations across the globe.
For his part, Oscar too anticipates the evening with Reeva. Just the two of them. Alone. Safe. At home.
Ten hours later, in the still of the night, their world would turn upside down.
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| 85. | Adam: | [15:11:08] He is really feeling pain //and you see his whole body and expression when he starts to think about Reeva that it he changes and tries to strengthen up and bring himself [15:11:23] back to reality. So someone that's really suffering from a traumatic incident for him// he was trying to defend someone he loved has turned out to be like breaking for him. |
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| 86. | Mike: | [16:12:56] Oscar will always be Oscar, but I don't ever think he can be the same person. He will always have that little bit inside and that little man in his head and his heart niggling away and tripping away at his emotions all the time about what had taken place. |
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