"As soon as you have the opportunity, you will do the same thing again," one of the lawyers for the prosecution challenged him.
"From the perspective of 'Hey, I don't want this prosecution challenged,' I don't know if it's worth the risk," said Kurt Altman, a former assistant United States attorney in Phoenix who is following the case.
The prosecution challenged, subsequently, if it was necessary to prove that an order had been given for criminal responsibility to attach.
When the prosecution challenged the defense's strikes, Slager's attorneys provided race-neutral reasons for the exclusions.
All of the prosecution's challenges were used to remove whites, first 10 men, then 6 women.
The prosecution had challenged the report, claiming she was 16 and not developmentally disabled.
As a result, the audience becomes less a jury than a sceptical prosecution lawyer, challenging the accuracy of Morgan's account.
They mostly saw an American with a gun firing in darkness, leaving an opening for the defense, and an obligation by the prosecution, to challenge or bolster at every opportunity the notion of a lone, rogue soldier.
Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled on 10 December that the prosecution could challenge her ruling of acquitting Pistorius of premeditated murder and the lesser murder charge of dolus eventualis, also known as common-law murder.
In another major development, Keir Starmer QC, the director of public prosecutions, directly challenged the accuracy of evidence given to parliament by John Yates, the acting deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police.
