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The defense finally rested in the OSCAR PISTORIUS murder case.
The five-month-plus murder trial, in which the paralympian is accused of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp following a Feb. 14, 2013 argument, hit a milestone as the Olympian’s defense team rested their case on Tuesday.
“We close the case for the defense,” Pistorius’ lawyer Barry Roux told Judge Thokozile Masipa, adding that a number of witnesses who might have taken the stand on the athlete’s behalf, but demurred due to the high-profile nature of the case in South Africa, where it has been compared to the O.J. Simpson trial of the 1990s.
Roux — who said he did not want to compel people to testify in the case — said that “there’s nothing that we can do about it.