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In closing arguments in a murder trial that has riveted South Africa and many around the world, the chief prosecutor said Thursday that Olympian Oscar Pistorius dropped ''the baton of truth'' and produced a succession of lies to save himself from a conviction for shooting to death his girlfriend. Likening the sensational trial to the sport that made the double-amputee runner world-famous, Gerrie Nel said Pistorius had lost this race and urged the judge to convict him of premeditated murder for killing Reeva Steenkamp. Nel said Pistorius' explanation that he acted out of fear there was a dangerous intruder hiding in a toilet cubicle in his bathroom was ''absolutely devoid of any truth.'' Nel criticized Pistorius in the Pretoria courtroom, saying he was an ''appalling witness'' ready to lie at every chance to cover up a murder. Judge Thokozile Masipa occasionally questioned Nel, and urged him at one point to speed up.
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