Pistorius has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him; murder and three firearm-related offenses. Free on bail, he ended the first week of sometimes damaging prosecution testimony with his now usual routine outside the courthouse of jostling through a gantlet of press and public, flanked by police and security guards who bundled him into an SUV with reflective windows.
"I really thought the state started well, I really did. They are starting with a left hook," said former state prosecutor and now defense lawyer in South Africa, Marius du Toit, who is not involved in the case. "But, of course, the fight never lasts one round."