Trial Discussion Thread #23 - 14.04.11, Day 21

[kaos]

N: Why did you not leave thru your bedroom door.

O: Milady, I have very, very limited mobility on my stumps on a tiled floor...

Me: Maybe hall outside bedroom tiled, otherwise I don't understand that comment?

Didn't he go into a tiled room?

 

[jay-jay]

OP's sis is always frowning.

It's a bit much, isn't it .. to have that expression all the time???

 

[zwiebel]

N: You have to tell the court why you didn't take Reeva out that bedroom window - door, sorry - to safety.

O: I don't know.

O:...I wish I did, I wish I did all these things that are now being put to me...(emotional)

 

[AlexUK]

OP's sis is always frowning.

Always has an upside down mouth too.

 

[Gryffindor]

Oscar's right. The State have changed their case and proposals within it numerous times. Is the State actually tailoring its case as per evidence, witnesses and statements???

 

[zwiebel]

Did OP just say "maybe they weren't there to leave if I'd shouted at them"

WTH??

 

[Lyra500]

Didn't he go into a tiled room?

Good point. Hope Nel picks him up on it.

 

[zwiebel]

Now Nel gets bthrm/bedrm mixed up, Judge corrects him and OP uses that to say he doesn't understand the question.

 

[BritsKate]

Aislinn Laing @Simmoa What he's saying is clash of circumstances: Macho, protective, proud family but he has been dealt the card of disability, vulnerability.

https://twitter.com/Simmoa

 

[MsY]

Thank you. Thank you. Reliving everything again. Literal nightmare.

Disingenuous and he'd be talking very matter of fact. Emotionless.

He is being very emotional, and has been almost the entire time throughout this trial. Composing himself is to get on with the trial, for everyone's sake.

 

[kaos]

Yes, he's that distraught that he can remember just how many times he's been asked "and Reeva never responded?"

 

[zwiebel]

O talking about how loud he was shouting and screaming, and grows irritated with N when N asks again 'And Reeva never responded'. OP says 'I've said it four times'.

 

[jay-jay]

Why are blind people able to not bump into their furniture in the houses they live in? I can walk around in my house with my eyes closed, because I am very familiar with its layout.

No, I didn't mean it from the point of view of him navigating it .. what OP keeps saying is that he was keeping an eye on the passageway continually to ensure that the intruder didn't appear. I am saying, how would he have been able to see whether an intruder appeared in that passageway or not if it was pitch black in there .. he wouldn't have been able to see, according to how dark he has insisted it was in there.


Edited: apologies .. I've answered the wrong question there .. I'm trying to follow the case, read on here and type at the same time, lol! Maybe I should just concentrate on listening to the case, then come back here later. Anyway, my point still stand about him keep saying he was keeping his eye on the passageway continually, and yet he wouldn't have been able to see in the pitch dark.

 

[AlexUK]

Roux's neck is gradually disappearing as he slumps in his chair.

 

[zwiebel]

Mmmm. Now OP is happily going into hypothetical situations of where/when intruders could have got him. But I thought he said earlier he couldn't go into hypothetical situations?

 

[Gryffindor]

Has Nel never heard of the "fight or flight" response?

No? Obviously not.

 

[jay-jay]

"I didn't want to give my position away" .. well he had just shouted out "get out of my house .. Reeva call the police" while going down the passageway!



Ooooh .. he's getting rattled now ..

 

[TartLemon]

O/T

Northern Queensland/Southern New Guinea are bracing for Cat 5 Cyclone Ita

Wow

 

[04009margaret]

I like Sky's coverage, instead of showing the courtroom during this critical time we are seeing the animation of passageway & bathroom so we can picture his movements as he's telling it

 

[zwiebel]

O...I slowly moved forward until the tiles meet the carpet....I reached the basin, saw window opene....I'd heard the door slam earlier so I wasn't sure where the person or persons.-

Nel asks him to slow down: When did you hear the door slam?

O agrees it was when he was in the passage. (he adds it opens out nearly to the window, for posters who were discussing that earlier)