so that is what judge masipa has decided.hink tuesday, as you just heard there, will be the day when the order will be prepared. >> and she was then raising the possible implications of psychiatric tests from the possibility of diminished criminal responsibility even? >> reporter: very much so. and that is what gerrie nel raised yesterday. this may, in fact, come up in appeal. what you have here is the prosecution is so confident that oscar pistorius may well be found guilty in this trial. what they are trying to avoid here is a loop hope that might come up later when he's appealing after the judgment has been handed down. they don't want this generalized anxiety disorder to come up during appeal. that's what gerrie nel explained yesterday. >> justice must be served. as the trial was due to end this week, we could be looking on way through the summer here. >> reporter: there's a long waiting list for the health institution. so i wonder how far down the line oscar pistorius will be waiting to get into that mental institution f

what we know is that judge masipa will be back here in court on tuesday to give the order.perhaps, clarify with greater detail of what's to happen next. what we understand is that oscar pistorius will then join the long waiting list of an constituti institution, a mental institution, where he'll be observed. and it is only until he gets in front of that queue that the 30-day observation begins. he will be observed by a group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other medical experts. and then at the end of that, then the trial will resume back here. remember that judge masipa said that they scheduled the whole trial to last until may 16th. that would have been, of course, this friday. clearly, that deadline is now shifted. >> milton, obviously there are different potential outcomes now. but how does this play into the cases of the defense and the prosecution? >> reporter: well, what we understand from gerrie nel, who's the prosecutor, and he is the man who brought the application for referral, is that he didn't want this to come up as a loophole once the oscar pistorius def