{The defense for Oscar Pistorius used the final day of closing arguments in a South African courtroom Friday to painstakingly go through a time line of the night he killed his girlfriend, revisiting phone records and witness testimony to back his version of events. }
The second and last day of closing arguments caps months of proceedings that have seen the Olympic sprinter gag, vomit and break down in heaving sobs.
The judge will consider her verdict over the next five weeks and announce it next month, she said.
Pistorius sent a message to supporters through his Twitter account at the end of court Friday: “Thank you to my loved ones and those that have been there for me, who have picked me up and helped me through everything. ”
Pistorius shot his girlfriend, model and law graduate Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day last year. The state has charged Pistorius, 27, with premeditated murder in the death of Steenkamp, 29. But the athlete contends he mistook her for an intruder when he fired four fatal shots through a locked bathroom door at his home in South Africa.
CNN legal analyst Kelly Phelps said she was impressed with the way defense attorney Barry Roux completed his closing arguments. “We’ve always said they’d need to come out with their ‘A’ game, and that is certainly what they did here today,” Phelps said.
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