PRETORIA - SAPS forensic expert Captain Laurance Makgotloe will find out whether he will spend this weekend at home.
The Pretoria Magistrate's Court prepares to rule on his bail application on Friday.
During closing arguments last week, the defence portrayed Makgotloe as a devoted family man with a clean criminal record.
But the State argued that he is a compromised police officer who poses a flight risk and could interfere with ongoing investigations.
The defence secured an early victory when the court ruled that evidence directly arising from Makgotloe's Madlanga Commission testimony was inadmissible for the purposes of the bail hearing.
The ballistics expert is accused of manipulating reports in several high-profile murder cases, including the assassination of Vereeniging engineer Armand Swart.