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Judge is reading a statement into the record: She says these are the sentencing proceedings of Jason Rohde for the murder of Susan, and of staging her death as a suicide.
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She said that Van der Spuy responded to the court's directions "rudely, raising his voice, shaking his body and shaking his finger in the air".
She found the conduct "disrespectful" and said it would not be tolerated.
She adjourned earlier today for everybody to calm down.
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She said that even though that information is already before her on record, she would allow the witness to place his evidence before the court for the sake of fairness.
However, when it became evident that the witness was not confining himself self to placing evidence in mitigation and Advocate van der Spuy "continued to protest Mr Rohde's evidence", she reminded him that he is place before her factors in mitigation of sentence after he was found guilty of murder Differently put, it is information she will consider in considering the appropriate sentence.
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Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe came back after lunch and said that when the court convened this this morning the specialist psychiatrist Kevin Stoloff was called to give evidence that was already by and large before court from previous testimony.
This related to Rohde's absence from court on February 5 while he was being treated for severe depression.
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So Van Der Spuy and his colleague Advocate Tony Mostert are sitting in court figuring out what happens next after Judge Salie- Hlophe's abrupt departure.
Court resumes at 2.15pm.
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Gayaat-Salie says he has pursued the point sufficiently, but VD Spuy says now his examination of Stoloff has been interrupted.
"Sorry does the court wish to interrupt me as well now?" he asks.
The judge takes exception to VD Spuy waving a finger at her, and adjourns.
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Jude Salie-Hlophe wants to know what Rohde clinic situation has to do with evidence in mitigation of sentence.
"This is not a bail application," she says. VD Spuy says it is germaine to the case and shows Rohde's illingness to cooperate.
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Asked to come to court on 6th to exlplain letter written on the 5th.
- Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe interupts. Requests information relevant to going forward with sentencing.
"A lot of this information has been dealt with already, is already before me. the purpose of these proceedings is to get evidence in mitigation," Salie-Hlophe says.
"This is not a bail application."
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Mr Rohde does not have a psychotic illness.
He was not insecure.
Stoloff says Rohde is even tempered, in that he is neither volatile nor disregulated (unstable) and there is no history of him being prone to outbursts rage. He is the person who backs down and walks away.
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Stoloff has prepared a report regarding Jason Rohde and it is handed up as an exhibit. It is the history of his involvement with Rohde as his treating psychiatrist from 8 September 2016, to present.
Last saw him on 13 November in hospital wing of Pollsmoor, unshaven.
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