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I was thinking about this last night, and one of the thoughts which occurred to me was this:
Roux is an excellent and well respected defense advocate, no doubt about it. But how many times in his career has he had to defend a person accused of murder? With his prices, in the echelons that he moves in, with the type of clientele he has? I have looked this up and I stand corrected, but I can't find any other actual murder cases he has been involved in, only other criminal cases such as tax evasion.
Nel on the other hand will have had thousands of murder cases to prosecute in his career. He knows this territory very, very well, and this is why most times that Nel and Roux have disagreed over a point of law, and Masipa has taken time to decide, she has ruled in Nel's favour. (most times, not all, but the majority).
Nel has more expertise in this area. Roux has less. This is why Nel is so very confident. It is why he could do things like call the defense out on the impossibility of OP's having two contradictory defenses... a basic error that they really should not have made.
Roux has had a very difficult case here and I think he has done his best with it, given the limits of what he was working with and his own experience, but I am absolutely certain that Masipa will hand down a verdict of murder on September 11.
Roux is an excellent and well respected defense advocate, no doubt about it. But how many times in his career has he had to defend a person accused of murder? With his prices, in the echelons that he moves in, with the type of clientele he has? I have looked this up and I stand corrected, but I can't find any other actual murder cases he has been involved in, only other criminal cases such as tax evasion.
Nel on the other hand will have had thousands of murder cases to prosecute in his career. He knows this territory very, very well, and this is why most times that Nel and Roux have disagreed over a point of law, and Masipa has taken time to decide, she has ruled in Nel's favour. (most times, not all, but the majority).
Nel has more expertise in this area. Roux has less. This is why Nel is so very confident. It is why he could do things like call the defense out on the impossibility of OP's having two contradictory defenses... a basic error that they really should not have made.
Roux has had a very difficult case here and I think he has done his best with it, given the limits of what he was working with and his own experience, but I am absolutely certain that Masipa will hand down a verdict of murder on September 11.