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Stunning testimony of Blade runner Oscar Pistorius trial

Pretoria, South Africa: The testimony in the first week of Oscar Pistorius' murder trial was jaw dropping at times, and more riveting evidence is expected as the prosecution seeks to prove beyond reasonable doubt that



Another friend told how Pistorius asked someone else to take the blame when a gun he was handling fired under a table in a busy restaurant.
   
At the start of the trial, the defense objected to what they call inadmissible evidence that amounts to character "assassination."
   
While the first five days of proceedings were dominated by doubts over Pistorius' character and some of his actions on the night of Steenkamp's death, the defense has sought to poke holes in the prosecution's case about the sequence of events: It says it can prove that Steenkamp did not scream before the shots and could not have screamed during them, as witnesses have said.