THE PROSECUTION:
Gerrie Nel is considered South Africa's top state prosecutor. He secured a conviction for corruption against former South African police chief Jackie Selebi, one of the country's biggest cases before Pistorius killed Steenkamp. Nel is described as a master of presenting evidence by legal analysts. In Pistorius' bail hearing last year, Nel painted a picture of Pistorius as a man who was "willing and ready to fire and kill" and Steenkamp as cowering, terrified and hiding in the toilet before Pistorius shot through the toilet door to kill her.
"She couldn't go anywhere," Nel said in court last February. "It must have been horrific."