Roger Dixon, the defence in the Pistorius murder trial's third witness, is testifying about the trajectory of the bullets that was fired from the athlete's pistol.....owl.li/vQppL
Oh... I bet Mr. Dixon regrets registering 'no objection to being televised' now. Pretty sure he's managed to flush any professional credibility he ever had down that reconstructed toilet.
Gun recoil which the "expert" introduced is huge!!! Oscar said that he did not aim the gun. He just pointed and shot accidentally. If this was the case the groupings would be more random or better put there would be no grouping because of the recoil. The tight grouping, particularly the which are pretty close and were probably fired in quick succession proves that Oscar was aiming and not just pointed. The shot were deliberate, not a mistake. That's why Nel introduced the video of OP taking target practice and the went through the pain staking detail of how Oscar held the gun and if he just pointed or aimed. The tight grouping shows that he aimed the gun and shot it deliberately in a particular area. GUILTY as charged!!!
Why would the bathroom door be locked? Oh because Reeva was scared of him, She had packed her things up and was ready to put her jeans on and he came at her, she then ran into the bathroom and locked the door, he told her to come out or I will break it down, he then got his gun and told her he was going to shoot the door if she didn't come out, She was too frightened to come out so he took a few shots at the door hitting her. End of story.
***** It doesn't matter if the defence payed Roger Dixon as a witness. An expert witness is there to assist the court, not take sides, so if the defence hired him, then he's there to give an independent assessment of the evidence in order to make sure that the police experts haven't made mistakes that could send an innocent man to prison. He's not there to get him off, no matter what.
Independence and neutrality are 'officially" expected but in reality expert witnesses are hired to assist the defence case. The ones who do the job best (skewing their findings) secure repeat employment by the defence therefore it's like a reward system. The only way to ensure that they don't unfairly influence events is for the prosecutor to dismantle their evidence, like Nel is doing very convincingly now.
Agree completely. This guy should never have been used for the crime scene. There's an argument for him for the sound reconstructions though...they need someone who can offer an alternative to a period of female screaming followed by gunshots. There might be no reasonable alternative to the sounds. Oscar howling, cricket bat. I guess the tests failed, so they have an incompetent witness to testify it because he doesn't realise they failed. But they should have kept his incompetence in a more focused area. lol. Anyway, if they haven't got more witnesses about that it is because those test results failed. I do imagine Roux will have advised him of the difficulty of the defense a long time ago: And it is Pistorius that elected, in spite of damning witness testimonies hearing a woman scream before being shot, and all the rest, to plough on. Roux is not going to argue with the pay cheque or the celebrity, after all. I must confess i had thought the defense forensic tests would have more bite; in a way if they don't it mean a lot of the cross-examination of pistorius was a waste of time because the objective facts already established the crime very well!
But aren't experts supposed to use scientific means to draw conclusions. If this guy is an expert then WE ALL are experts. We can see, hear, feel and match. Everything I needed to know I learned in Kindergarten. LOL All that money on college, phooey...I could have bought a mustang.
The only way OP's version works is if he broke the door open with exactly 4 strikes in quick succession of equal loudness. UNREASONABLE cooincidence => calculated story.
i was thinking the same thing...lucky cricket hits. totally impossible I think he had already been trying to bang the door down with the cricket bat. He was able to see Reeva through the cracks he created. This "expert" testified to blood presence in between cracks of the door.
Nel to Dixon, questioning about the sound tests:"Are you a sound expert?" Dixon: "I would hope that my evidence that I present as an expert is sound, yes.",Nel: No, are you a SOUND expert?" LOL. Mel Brooks IS indeed back. I hope this 'expert' will cost OP his last savings. It would serve him right.
So, the recording was subjected to post-processing? God knows how tweaked they may have been. Does anyone in the courtroom appreciate just what wizardry you can achieve with a bog-standard, entry-level bit of sound software? Does Nel eventually cover this? Someone put me out of my misery because I'm only 15 mins in to this video and it's driving me nuts!
@ Isla Arundel it gets much deeper. Mr Dixon is as handy as the deaf interpreter at Mandela's funeral. Nel even takes the guys notes he has been using from him and then he gets even more confused. and asks for them back. lol.
Oh man, lol. I keep having to stop the video to go deal with irritating stuff... suspense is killing me. How sad is it that this is the most compelling thing to watch these days... Nel is an artist!
I'm confused. Did Dixon do the bat strikes at the shooting range or was it just the shots of the gun? Where did he do the batting? Acoustics can change from place to place or even day to day - after a rainy day you can hear clearer bird song than before the rain so sound travels farther- the instruments I use to deduce this are 1. My eyes; 2. My ears 3. My brain, lol. He said he had trouble getting ammo for OPs gun but Sky got some within an hour of searching. Dixon and Co used a new gun and it kept jamming so why didnt they take it back and have it replaced - wouldnt it be better to use a gun, which like OPs gun, had already been fired a few times as this would affect markings and perhaps also the sound? I think I heard Dixon say that he used different ammo than the original ammo and argued it was very similar! - Surely if you had been head hunted for probably the biggest celebrity murder trial in S.A. history and even WORLD history after OJ Simpson, you would have been meticulous, presented a comprehensive report and know it all backwards. ONE THING THAT COMES FROM THIS - SAPS NEEDS TO BUILD A DECENT FORENSIC TEAM OF SOCCOS AS IN UK OR FBI LAB AS IN USA. SAPS behaved as if they are from a banana republic rather than an advanced democracy. HOW COULD THE CRIME SCENE BE SO COMPROMISED IN ANY CASE NEVER MIND ONE OF THE BIGGEST EVER. If this trial fails to get justice for Reeva then the police involved should be sacked. It is absolutely shameful because OP is able to use their 'negilgence' as a means of dissing the evidence/photographs and also blame police for stealing his watches. How did OP get bail given the seriousness of his crime as I feel sure if it had been a black man from the poorer parts of town, he would not get bail - it seems to me he has had special treatment because he is rich and famous.
Ellie Taylor-Gore Ellie, I think Dixon did his Botham impersonation with the bat at a shooting range. That was the extent of his involvement in the 'experiment.' Junior high school science stuff, maybe not even up to that level! What I don't understand is why, if you planned to produce this material in a court of law, you wouldn't make a video of the entire process and at least cobble together some vague semblance of a professional, scientifically recorded procedure. If no one can verify the processes or equipment used, if no one can see how it was done, how it was recorded, what digital processed was used - then what you have is no more than elaborate hearsay. "We did this stuff and this is what we got. Just take our word for it." It's just rubbish. I don't think that contaminated scenes or shoddy policework are unique to SA, to be fair. God knows the UK police have come in for some scrutiny lately, on multiple levels. Corruption is rife wherever you go. I think it may be exacerbated in SA by the fact that the public sector, generally, is starved of resources. Too much work, not enough people to do it. It's a thankless job, really. If you want to make a decent living in SA, clearly you go for a private sector post, and then whore yourself out to wealthy defence teams as a purported 'expert.'
It looks like OP have lost this case. Mr Dixon appears not to be an expert as he claimed under oath. The game is over, I don't think OP have a good defense team. I like the way Nel lay across his questions. Very interesting...
I don't know what Roux was thinking asking Dixon to testify - his expertise are dubious (Geology qualifications to cover sounds and bodily wounds?), I can only think his fee must be quite low. Struggling to see why Roux asked him questions you would normally put to a ballistics expert, pathologist and expert in acoustics.
Well Mr Roux wanted to leave no STONE unturned, and Mr Nell Is doing what was thought impossible Extracting BLOOD from a stone to give Ocsar a transfusion when this is over. HO HO HAAa :-{O)
Oh dear, this is not good for Mr Roux's career. It is doing wonders for Mr Nel, he will become an international icon, especially if he nails OP and makes him take responsibility for his actions for the first time in his whining life. I hope OP gets life. That poor girl must have gone through such terror and fear and died in agony. Justice for Reeva is what this is all about not OPs so called 'trauma'. He doesnt weep for Reeva, he is weeping for himself as being a control freak jail will really mess with his head.
Dixon has to bring in all the photos and videos to court on Thursday!!! He got a little snappy about it too. I bet we are going to see Nel nail him on tampering with photos and sounds!
Why would the court allow its cleaners to clean the door? For this defence witness to attempt to frustrate the prosecution's evidence? That is outrageous. The defence put this guy up to raise reasonable doubts!
@ Isia Arundel it gets much deeper. Mr Dixon is as handy as the deaf interpreter at Mandela's funeral. Nel even takes the guys notes he has been using from him and then he gets even more confused. and asks for them back. lol.
If the sound of the gun fire and the hits of the bat were done on different days, that could make a world of difference. What if the wind was blowing the first night in the direction of the microphone and the wind was blowing in the opposite direction on the following night. What kind of testing is that? This guy is a bozo.
people at this level of intelligence have no tolerance for people pretending to be experts. imagine if you where interviewing people to work for you and they said they where an expert at something and you HAD to interview them, but just by their resume you knew they knew nothing... you'd talk to them the same way.
because they wanted to see or hear if the bat strikes sounded the same as a gunshots. because Oscar says he shot first and used the bat second. Roux is trying to say that Oscar used the gun first which killed Reeva there fore killed her and no screams were heard inbetween the next sounds which are supposed to be the bat
The only reason I can think of for that a.l. nieborg, is that the defence is possibly trying to add an extra inference (tailoring) that the bat sound is the same as the gun sound Through cross examination of Dixon, Nel has now even exposed that the one sound tested & recorded, was actually digitally re-mastered (tailored) to make it sound like a succession of noises.
hms glory Im not sure what it was that you heard but there (from what i heard) was absolutely no evidence given where he said it was digitally re mastered. I did hear that dixon said that they could repeat the sound but it was never done as he never heard it which is why they went back out there to record it again. what he did say was that on his own computer he hit the play button over and over again to hear the one shot four times in rapid succession, but the recording of what was played in court was that of the second time they went out to the shooting range.
Caramello98 I think he used the bat first for some reason......the bat was in a funny place.......with odd blood stains on it.......the bat should never have had that kind on blood on it i would think.........
BewTfulEvil Thank you for clarifying that for me. You are correct that Dixon 'suggested' to the team that one single gun shot sound could be edited electronically to sound like 4 shots in rapid succession. With regard to the second recording made where he himself was not actually present & which may or may not be that which was played in court today?, he could only 'assume' that it was the same recording company who more recently re-attended the range & produced the sound of 4 shots in rapid succession, which he only heard a few days ago while he was in the court chambers with counsel. As such he could only state that 'to his knowledge', he had never heard an electronically changed version. We will no doubt hear more on this though when court resumes in a few hours time.
Recording equipment will adjust for high db sounds so as not to distort. Very hard to measure db difference with a recording. Actually it's impossible.That's why you use a db meter.
Awe, don't worry about him. He believes in himself. He's fine. In 10 years or so he can always work at the mall as Santa. Or he could play the captain of the Titanic. He'll be ok.
You know what Roux is not this stupid and weak to be too desperate to present this geologist that has no clue about where he is and what time it is! I feel it's to teach "Pistol" a good hard lesson and to tell him you're on your own now. "Pistol" took it to another level and went against the defence team! Roux has to think of his reputation in the long run after this case. Roux what a tactic!
Please Carl...tell me what this expert has proven? What is the point? Maybe I am missing it. So far, it does not seem like any of his conclusions are validated by scientific means.
Mister Dixon is what scientists call a perversion of the course of justice. I expect the Judge, Thokozile Matilda Masipa to rule on this before this trial can continue. Failure of the court to do this shall surely have grave consequences for all in this trial. Masipa worked as a social worker and as a crime reporter and edited the Queen women's supplement of Pace magazine, which led to her 'interest' in law. I say that only because of her 2003 interview with the Judicial Service Commission, that Masipa supported greater transparency and interaction with the media to aid the public's understanding of the judicial process.
As an American lawyer, I'm amazed at what Nel can get away with in his cross-examination, his asides and insults to the witness would never be tolerated in an American court. South Africa must have really loose rules of evidence. Dixon's testimony would be objectionable for any number of reasons.
Ok, i've been backing the prosecution all the way since now. Now i'm feeling the Prosecution is somehow getting desperate. Come on? Bloody decibels with the noise of the bat & the gun shots on 1 day 2 another?? Please, give us more of a smoking gun Mr Nell!!
In Australia they do, if they are working and have to lose a day they get compensated for it. but if your a pensioner (here they give you fare and lunch money) ONLY
So this expert and the defense knew OP story and never had fibers or pics from the door lmao really and now we are supposed to believe its sock fibers gmadb
Pamela Valemont You should be bright enough to realise that he is saying 'you are delusional'. By the way as expert witnesses go he's one of the most inept I've seen, so I love to know what you think he has won.
I beg to differ. Dixon struggled throughout his entire cross-examination. It's more than clear his "expertise" doesn't apply here. As for his "tests", they were made in such amateurish fashion that one can't possibly find them plausible.
and the reason people believe Pistorius has murdered her is because they know it is reasonably possible and reasonably possible within their own world (and could do that themselves) correct?
