delilah
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I doubt very much she would have got that precise information, bang... bang bang bang - from anywhere. It fitted in completely with Mangena's testimony, which is why I couldn't understand why Masipa stated all the shots were fired in quick succession. Did she even explain why she totally discarded Mangena's testimony?
I suppose it could be argued that bang...bang bang bang can be described as quick succession, especially if you don't attach any significance whatsoever to the pause.
The reason Masipa was able to dismiss the significance of the pause was that by that stage she had been convinced 100% that it was shots screams bat. She used that to argue that RS could not possibly have screamed as the ear witnesses described because she would have been dead almost immediately after the final shot, so the screams had to have come from OP:
"The shots were fired in quick succession. In my view, this means that the deceased would have been unable to shout or scream, at least not in the manner described by those witnesses who were adamant that they had heard a woman scream repeatedly. The only other person who could have screamed is the accused. "
Shots screams bat is the foundation on which her verdict is predicated. It allowed her to dismiss every bit of prosecution evidence, because none of it makes any sense if the shots came first.
So why was she so convinced of shots screams bat? OP's blubbering testimony and Roux's cherry picked timeline.
Sorry I am just repeating what we all know, but it makes me angrier every time I got through it.