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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Oscar Pistorius murder
trial began a new phase Monday when the Olympic athlete
arrived at a state psychiatric hospital for a monthlong
evaluation whose terms have been described by some as
favourable to the double-amputee runner. Pistorius, who
killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his home last year,
sat in the passenger seat of a black sedan and spoke on a
cellphone as he arrived behind a police van at Weskoppies
Psychiatric Hospital in Pretoria, the South African
capital. The judge who will deliver a verdict in the case
asked the hospital to determine if Pistorius had a mental
disorder at the time of the shooting, which could affect
whether he should be held criminally responsible.
Pistorius must arrive by 9 a.m. and can leave by 4 p.m.
each weekday, and has weekends off under an order from
Judge Thokozile Masipa. Pistorius, who is free on bail,
has been staying at the upscale Pretoria home of his
uncle. Pistorius outpatient status troubles some experts
who say 24-hour observation is common in state
psychiatric facilities. In the evenings, nursing staff
can get additional insights into a patients mental state
that complement formal questioning and other tests during
the day, say the experts. "There is a benefit" to the
after-hours observation, said Lee-Ann Hartman, a clinical
psychologist who has worked in state psychiatric
facilities. Masipas instruction came after a psychiatrist
testified that Pistorius, who has said he feels
particularly vulnerable because of his disability and
long-held worry about crime, had an anxiety disorder that
could have contributed to his shooting of Steenkamp on
Feb. 14, 2013. The judge was responding to a prosecution
request for an independent inquiry, based on concern the
defence would argue Pistorius was not guilty because of
mental illness. Prosecutors allege Pistorius killed
Steenkamp intentionally after a late-night fight, but the
athlete says he mistook his girlfriend for a dangerous
intruder hiding in a toilet cubicle when he shot her
multiple times through the door. There is a long waiting
list for observation cases at state psychiatric hospitals
and Pistorius assessment will be faster because he does
not need a hospital bed, said Gerhard Grundling, chair of
the Clinical Psychology Forum, a South African group. He
said the observation will likely include blood tests and
possible brain scans and that more specialists, including
a neurologist, can get involved as needed. Additionally,
in such observations, social workers gather "collateral
information" in interviews with friends, family and
others, according to Grundling. Other trials had been
delayed for nearly a year because of patient backlogs at
state mental health facilities, said Jack Bloom, an
opposition member of the provincial legislature.
"Everyone should be equal before the law, no matter how
famous," Bloom said, urging authorities to explain the
runners "preferential treatment" as an outpatient
receiving speedy observation. Pistorius faces 25 years to
life in prison if convicted of premeditated murder. Trial
proceedings resume June 30. The high-security Weskoppies
hospital was called the Pretoria Lunatic Asylum long ago.
Accounts described crowded, unhygienic conditions and
staffing shortages there during the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer
war, though conditions later improved. In the 1950s, two
medical experts at Weskoppies wrote in South Africas
medical journal that it was undesirable to house criminal
suspects together with mentally ill patients who had not
been charged with any crime, but noted the advantage of
24-hour scrutiny. "Under these conditions," they wrote,
"any attempt to evade criminal responsibility by
simulation of mental disorder is fraught with extreme
difficulty."
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