Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial: Defense Presents Texts To Illustrate Romance Between Paralympian, Slain Model Reeva Steenkamp

March 25 2014, Published 10:25 a.m. ET
Oscar Pistorius' murder trial trudged on in South Africa's Pretoria Magistrate's Court Tuesday, when the defense presented in evidence, a series of text messages between their client and girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, to illustrate the deep love the two shared prior to Feb. 13, 2013, the night he fatally shot her.
Defense attorney Barry Roux -- countering Monday's previous admission of texts that showed the couple arguing, and Steenkamp's professed fear, at times, of the double-amputee superstar -- presented media in the form of video and texts in which the then-lovers displayed their affection for one another.
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