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Reeva Steenkamp was killed by her boyfriend of three months, Oscar Pistorius, on Valentine's Day in 2013. With the former star released on parole, we take a look at what happened that fateful night. ....
Them off that we have had some reporter: that s a fascinating point you re intercepts of conversations. raising, martha. you re absolutely right. we don t want them to know that there is no tradition, no we penetrated them, that s what system of jury trial in this we re going to have to wait and country. it is one judge, one judge see. having said also this, there is alone, perhaps with some a lot of other stuff that this assistance, but he s the one isn t going to tell us. for insurance fans it s not deciding things. going to tell us what the and so it will be all up to president s actions were on the night. one person and that person we still don t know what went on has one inclination or in those seven hours when he wasn t calling the pentagon, another inclination, who knows, that could weigh in when he wasn t following up with on a trial as well. the secretary of defense, and the secretary of state, when he but you re right, it is not a jury trial. wasn t calling the top official ....
I mean, after just three days of testimony, and what is a bail hearing not a criminal trial, not a prosecution yet, just a bail hearing d the whole focus of the case has shifted from what pistorius is alleged e did. that s a disaster for the state. when the judge starts second-guessing the government in the first presentation the government is making. second problem for the state. detective botha was the original gatherer of evidence at the death scene. only he can testify about his impressions from that act of gathering evidence. the state cannot separate itself. the government cannot separate himself from detective botha, no matter how flimsy or criminal or shady or incredible his background may be. they re stuck with him. they can put other detectives on the case, but what he said in this preliminary bail hearing trial, the government s going to have to live with throughout the entire case. shepard: one argue. ....
Chooses not to reveal. it doesn t have to reveal all of it. and there may be other people who can testify for the government who would do a better josh than boat tacoma but the got is stuck with botha, and the argument that pistorius is a flight risk will not be taken seriously. this lack of a jury is weird. there s a lack of a jury at this stage. shepard: there will be a jury? there will be a jury. at the time that guilt or innocence is resolved. but all the preliminary proceedings, just like here and in great britain, all the preliminary procedures are decided just by a judge. shepard: all right, judge, thank you. we ll be watching it for you. shepard: don t need to worry about battery fires on boeing s new planes. they came up with a way to stop the fires from spreading. feel better? details next. plus, medical groups warnings patients about more than 100 ....
The court just prior to the judge giving the sentence. from ann marie satisfy york it hurts a lot. i hoch it gets better but i m confident it will not get better. i still talk to. he i hope she can hear me. from another sister, the fear is in screams for help and snowing she was alone the her final moment. the fate of seeing the water, knowing she was going into the water, he last breath would be soon in reference to her being drowned in her own bathtub. and then from henry savio, jr., i pray during the last minutes of drew peterson s life he is able to clearly see her and she is watching his dissention into hill. the prosecutor says he didn t ask for a specific number of years but asked for the upper range of the 20 to to 60 years. shepard: you re hearing that drew peterson may be getting cold feet about speaking? we would vary much like to hear from him. reporter: up until now every indication was that he was ....