PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — As Oscar Pistorius’ lawyer put it Friday, the murder trial of the double-amputee athlete comes down to a sliver of time — the seconds before he fired four gunshots through a closed toilet door and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

The world will have to wait another month to hear a verdict in a globally televised five-month trial whose blend of shock and celebrity, framed by the rise and fall of a role model-turned-murder suspect, has transfixed people far beyond South Africa’s borders.