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Nick's tweets - Cross-examination
Nick van der Leek (@HiRezLife) | Twitter
#Rohde Van Niekerk is a non nonsense prosecutor; he's going to let him have it. Already standing with his arms folded, and Rohde answering "my point is..." Rohde not looking at Van Niekerk as he talks to him about his "complete" lies.
Van Niekerk: "Up to the events at Spier, that was your plan. Living this double life." #Rohde argues that he wasn't trying to "have it both ways".
"When was the first time you mentioned the word 'divorce' to Susan?" "When we had our daily rows." "When was the first time?" "I can't give you a date, advocate." #Rohde contends he meant it on the morning of her death, not before.
"I think it was a good marriage." #Rohde
#Rohde "The bottomline is you've got to be deceitful. Otherwise it's not an affair." Alrighty then. Fair dinkum but in a murder trial...
"I didn't want to rub it in her face." "So if you didn't want to rub it in her face...you kept a distance from Jolene...correct?" "That's correct."#Rohde Van Niekerk giving him plenty of rope. Rohde shrugging his shoulders constantly, almost like a default setting.
Van Niekerk:"C'mon sir...99% sure...did you have sex with her?" "Ummm..." Van der Spuy leaps up, citing a language barrier. "I would have had intercourse with her...that's absolutely correct."#Rohde Expect a lot more silly semantics like these. Rohde looks down, then straight up.
#Rohde starting to sway from side to side in the dock. Looking down, licking his lips. Is it getting a little uncomfortable?
#Rohde Van Niekerk uses Rohde's daughter's name. An obvious dig, and Rohde asks him not to refer to her by name. Judge backs him up. What do you think? Oh and now Rohde refers to his daughter by name...
#Rohde refers to his daughter again by name, now the Judge castigates him. Oh, the irony. Watch the moment here: https://youtu.be/8lwU5m9Pr90?t=30m52s …
The trouble with loose lips in court, is you've got to keep track of everything you've said. It's the prosecutor's job to do that. #Rohde Loose lips sink ships.
#Rohde It's a good opening gambit from Van Niekerk to start off by focusing on the dynamic between father and daughters on the one hand, and their mother. What makes it so hard is they're out there listening too. "I can't comment on my daughter's impression..." No, you can't.
#Rohde sighs. He's looking straight at the livefeed camera, His gaze sometimes fades into the middle distance. He sighs heavily as the prosecutor continues. He slips again, using his daughter's name, reverts to reverse fig-leaf. Losing his cool and concentration - this early?
Nick van der Leek (@HiRezLife) | Twitter
#Rohde Van Niekerk is a non nonsense prosecutor; he's going to let him have it. Already standing with his arms folded, and Rohde answering "my point is..." Rohde not looking at Van Niekerk as he talks to him about his "complete" lies.
Van Niekerk: "Up to the events at Spier, that was your plan. Living this double life." #Rohde argues that he wasn't trying to "have it both ways".
"When was the first time you mentioned the word 'divorce' to Susan?" "When we had our daily rows." "When was the first time?" "I can't give you a date, advocate." #Rohde contends he meant it on the morning of her death, not before.
"I think it was a good marriage." #Rohde
#Rohde "The bottomline is you've got to be deceitful. Otherwise it's not an affair." Alrighty then. Fair dinkum but in a murder trial...
"I didn't want to rub it in her face." "So if you didn't want to rub it in her face...you kept a distance from Jolene...correct?" "That's correct."#Rohde Van Niekerk giving him plenty of rope. Rohde shrugging his shoulders constantly, almost like a default setting.
Van Niekerk:"C'mon sir...99% sure...did you have sex with her?" "Ummm..." Van der Spuy leaps up, citing a language barrier. "I would have had intercourse with her...that's absolutely correct."#Rohde Expect a lot more silly semantics like these. Rohde looks down, then straight up.
#Rohde starting to sway from side to side in the dock. Looking down, licking his lips. Is it getting a little uncomfortable?
#Rohde Van Niekerk uses Rohde's daughter's name. An obvious dig, and Rohde asks him not to refer to her by name. Judge backs him up. What do you think? Oh and now Rohde refers to his daughter by name...
#Rohde refers to his daughter again by name, now the Judge castigates him. Oh, the irony. Watch the moment here: https://youtu.be/8lwU5m9Pr90?t=30m52s …
The trouble with loose lips in court, is you've got to keep track of everything you've said. It's the prosecutor's job to do that. #Rohde Loose lips sink ships.
#Rohde It's a good opening gambit from Van Niekerk to start off by focusing on the dynamic between father and daughters on the one hand, and their mother. What makes it so hard is they're out there listening too. "I can't comment on my daughter's impression..." No, you can't.
#Rohde sighs. He's looking straight at the livefeed camera, His gaze sometimes fades into the middle distance. He sighs heavily as the prosecutor continues. He slips again, using his daughter's name, reverts to reverse fig-leaf. Losing his cool and concentration - this early?