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Consequences and the behavioral science says in interrogating al qaeda suspects, there's a study by lawrence ellison at the university of liverpool, 181 interrogations of al qaeda-related terrorists showed that empathy, respect, and an adaptive approach ended up systematically reducing counter interrogation strategies. so that's -- >> and that generally is when you did interrogations, oversaw interrogations, that was the approach you took. >> yes. >> it's sort of like a, for lack of a better word, friendly approach. because i can hear people's hair raising all over going wait a second. >> righ...

A judge will expect small changes or inconsistencies, because of the fallibility of human memory. once you create a track record of inconsistencies that's when it starts to become problematic. >> we are watching live in the courtroom now as pistorius -- up, he may be approaching the stand, soon. what you are seeing there is from yesterday. what should we expect when heap sits on the stand today and the prosecutor continues? >> well we certainly expect more of what we saw yesterday. i think throughout cross-examination, the prosecutor will be flipping between his strategies of on the one hand b...

What he has been testifying this week as it relates to the fans orphan on the balcony went outside to bring it in or not. what's key about that? we don't know if that is key evidence or not. we know what he is trying to do. the beginning of a very important strategy of trying to place on the record a track record of inconsistencies between his various versions of events. at different stages in the criminal process. the implication of doing that is that -- if it can be shown that an accused person has essentially a track record of lying, then the only reasonable inference that a judge can draw ...

One of the statements versus another statement or versus his testimony in court. now, in isolation, the judge will permit some variance over time, because that accounts for the fact that human memory is never perfect. when it becomes problematic is if the state -- for pistorius, that is -- is if the state manages to establish a track record of inconsistency that then will lead the judge to infer that he is, in fact, lying, rather than simply adding additional detail to already the story that he had put forward. >> really fascinating stuff. now i know you need to get back to watching this unfol...

Examining a professional. a lot of these medical examiners are very brief and to the point and they're not very revealing. bao is testifying like he just fell off a turnip truck. he's talking about let me refer to my notes on human memory. he's got a article in front about the human memory and heaven only knows what's in his handwritten notes which might include something we call brady material. if there's material in those written notes that in some way help the defense exonerate zi r zimmerman there's going to be a major uproar. it sounds like a lot of notes, it's a big development. >> did y...