jesus christ ...judge speaks for 5mins then takes a break , then lunch then a few more mins and calls it a day. fucking useless .
Tough job
jesus christ ...judge speaks for 5mins then takes a break , then lunch then a few more mins and calls it a day. fucking useless .
jesus christ ...judge speaks for 5mins then takes a break , then lunch then a few more mins and calls it a day. fucking useless .
jesus christ ...judge speaks for 5mins then takes a break , then lunch then a few more mins and calls it a day. fucking useless .
I think the prosecutor had a word during lunch. The defense lawyer tried to find a loophole in his closing arguments along the lines of "He can't be guilty of murdering Reeva because he didn't know it was her, and he can't be guilty of killing an intruder because there wasn't one". The prosecutor didn't dignify that with a response, and from there I think she actually bought the argument as she was on the verge of letting him walk before lunch. It's worrying, I think she is a little retarded at understanding the law.
When she realised the galatically stupid mistake she was about to make, she ran for it. She's probably frantically typing up a new judgement.
Right, so the judge reckons that a reasonable person would have foreseen that shooting four times through the door would kill the person behind it, but yet cleared Pistorius because he didn't foresee this.
In very broad terms I thought her approach was quite refreshing in comparison to the recent behaviour of English courts. Rather than try the person, she tried the case, so, unlike English courts these days, which seem to take faulty memory (for example) as proof in itself of sexual perversity from 40 years ago, she didn't jump from OP's inconsistencies and contradictions straight to the judgement that he'd deliberately killed someone. Having said that, her reluctance to believe that someone, even under huge stress, wouldn't know that he might actually harm or kill someone by shooting through a bathroom door is surely erring too far on the side of caution. A bizarre case that will probably drag on and on via appeal.
Apparently a South African taxi driver was found guilty of culpable homicide for driving his car at a train killing 14 kids. He got 8 years. Oscar will get 5 max.
The one thing that this whole case has taught me, is that Dantes knows fuck all about how the legal system functions or interprets evidence.
Good luck with your court case Dantes.
Not exactly a massive stretch. He'll get out in 3.