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Time. we need to stick with forensics and known facts. >> most people in the fbi never even read the manifesto. the popular opinion was that it was nonsense, it was just scribbling. >> the media and the fbi are faced with a dilemma. publishing the manifesto could be seen as giving in to terrorist demands. >> the last thing we wanted to do is set a precedent that we would be blackmailed into publishing terrorist manifestos. because every terrorist could come out of the woodwork and decide, this i...

Continue to swing. >> zbl on that note, kelly, what do you expect to see next week? >> well, certainly, well see a continue of cross-examination of mr. barber who was the security official who was also on the scene early early on the night in question. and it will be important for the defense. he was a very strong witness. and the defense will say he wanted to try to explain away the testimony that he gave about mr. pistorius saying security, everything is fine. so theyll certainly continue with...

Indications that stolen passports were used, they immediately dug into this passenger manifest to see if there were any other linkages that were suspicious. i expect that once they do find the wreckage, all the forensic work between the accident investigators will be shared very, very closely with the intelligence and law enforcement investigators. and i think intelligence officials will always err on the side of caution now. theyre going to do extra digging on all sorts of manifests for passeng...

Fraught with crime. there have been break ins there. hes had to pull a gun to chase intruders in the past and thats a very powerful part of the defense. what the defense lawyer has been doing is carefully advancing that argument that was understandable what happened that night, that valentines night and thats where theyre going. i think that the forensics coming up will be important to show the possibility of what the defense is trying to show here. remember, the burden is on the prosecution and...

Door, what will forensics tell us about? what came first and the direction in which they came, whether he did indeed have prosthetics on or not. >> i dont know that the forensics are really going to be able to answer all those questions. >> really? why not? >> i just dont think science is strong enough to give you those precise answers. >> is it important? >> whats important to establish is was this a premeditated, intentional killing. when she locked herself in the bathroom and theyre going to ...

Listening to things like this and hearing things like this is whether its the gun shots first or the screams after or the screams before or the gun shots, the mind does very peculiar things when youre stressed out and when you hear things. and the memory can play tricks on you. so i dont know that theyre going to bank on this idea that it was his voice that they were hearing or not hearing, and i think that the more compelling argument is that look, she could not have been screaming after the sh...

Trajectory of the bullets, whether the shooting was up -- up towards the down position or down towards the up position? >> yes, it should be. if one assumes that he held the gun logically, straight out, then -- and fired, you should be able to see very easily when he was on his stumps or on his prosthetics. however, if he fired from a position like this, that could confuse the issue. >> is there anything other than that? i mean, it just seems so simplistic, almost like that would be the only evi...

There was a huge fight going on. they say this couple had been arguing for quite some time, so loud that neighbors, hundreds of yards away, could hear it. and yes, she went into the bathroom. but she went there and locked the door to get away from him. and they say that oscar pistorius then indeed got his pistol, and yes, he went down that hallway, in the full light, with full knowledge of what he was doing. that he was pursuing her to that door, and when he found it locked, in a rage, he tried ...

Argument. and i will make it over and over again, all the way up to the u.s. sbreeupreme court. cameras in the courtroom do not great a mockery. they open the process and help get to the truth. thats how we talk. we look in each others eyes and we want to know if we get a gut feeling for how someone is behaving and acting. and i will go to my grave making sure that ive done everything i can to insist that the supreme court gets cameras at some point in the u.s. kelly phelps and susan constantine...

Ten years ago real estate agent and wife of the sheriff also shot and killed. all three involved in their community. all gunned down in their homes in broad daylight. all three killed within two miles of each other. police say forensics show similarities in the bullets used in all three killings but they wont go as far to say they came from the same gun. but they have similar characteristics and similar in design. >> he believes in his mind that these three people will represent the city of alex...