26 year-old Andrew Rector was present during the April 13 game when he had taken a nap during the widely televised match. ESPN, who had been broadcasting the match and had John Kruk and Dan Shulman providing commentary for the game, panned in on Rector who was clearly sleeping.
Citing its in-house legal analyst Kelly Phelps, CNN said the judge decided to give each of the prosecution and the defense time for them to review the transcript of the case, of which is believed to be as much as 4,000 pages long and covering a case that ran from March 3 to July 8, which is a total of 39 days.
The photos were taken by photographers for the Associated Press, who were covering the riots in key cities across Brazil, including in Belo Horizonte, last year in protest over the national government's handling of public issues like transportation, health services, education and security despite amassing revenues thanks to the heavy tax burden levied. Around a hundred thousand people that day had marched in the streets in what initially was a peaceful protest. It turned ugly when some protesters started clashing with police.
The Telegraph said that the dramatic footage was aired during the primetime slot, had shown the South African athlete stumbling forward awkwardly without his prosthetic legs and holding his arm out in front of him as if he was holding the gun that killed Steenkamp.
