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Oscar Pistorius trial discussion
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Big Fat Sam
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This judge is pissing me off big time.
Pistorius keeps on saying "I don't know" and she isn't letting the prosecutor continue with questioning.
He's just casually forgetting certain things yet having detailed accounts of other things, and the judge is siding with him and forcing the prosecutor to drop his argument.
No surprise if and when he gets off with it.
Pistorius keeps on saying "I don't know" and she isn't letting the prosecutor continue with questioning.
He's just casually forgetting certain things yet having detailed accounts of other things, and the judge is siding with him and forcing the prosecutor to drop his argument.
No surprise if and when he gets off with it.
He's one tough feller this Nel, got massive concerns Oscar is going to get off, theres so many holes in his version of events its unreal
...she's guarding herself in case of an appeal. The evidence against him and his contradictory responses appear increasingly compelling. Key for me are the police pictures as these completely throw his version of events out of the water. He's arguing that police moved furniture, the decision might rest with whether the Judge believes this. The prosecution version is supported by the photographs and witnesses who heard a woman screaming. Suspect he'll need to bring his toothbrush on the day the verdict is announced.
Hasn't his entire not guilty plea pretty much been based on the police contaminating the scene, ie looking for loopholes rather than proving innocence
tsubaki
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There is no way he will get off - even in those parts of the US where it is fashionable to dress up as a ghost, doing what Pistorius did would probably result in lengthy jail time.
You wouldn't have thought so, interesting that this all comes down to the judge, if you have a fair minded and intelligent judge, then maybe that would be better than bringing in 12 randoms with their beliefs and pedjudices, but then you are so dependent on one person, I wonder what the stats are on wrongful convictions with judges compared to juries
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Big Fat Sam
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Everything points to that, but you just don't know. His story has got more holes in it than a block of Emmantaler cheese.
tsubaki
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This is probably one of the few cases where it might be better to have a judge rather than a jury; certainly on the reported facts of the case the only thing Pistorius has in his favour is that he is famous and that he has (with some justification) criticisms of how the police have handled things.
That might fool enough people on a jury to get him off (given that he would only need two or three), but one would think that a judge would recognize that the case basically boils down to him deliberately shooting someone behind a locked door - something which would justify a murder conviction in most places, and that nothing Pistorius can come up with changes that.
Roztitute
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I know mate haha, and on top of that, he keeps changing it!
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Big Fat Sam
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Mr Nel is tearing him to pieces lid. I've watching it every day in work, my productivity levels have dropped lower than the black box from the Air Malaysia plane has in the Indian Ocean.
Ashtonian
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the funny thing is that there is no story in this. He was guilty as sin as soon as the neighbors heard screaming and from that point on nothing has corroborated a story of an innocent man.
Best thing was this from last week. He claimed the police were trying to set him up despite them not knowing what his version of events were to alter the scene accordingly.
Best thing was this from last week. He claimed the police were trying to set him up despite them not knowing what his version of events were to alter the scene accordingly.
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Big Fat Sam
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Aye lid, ano.
Everything points to first-degree murder. He knowingly and deliberately pulled that trigger four times with the intention to kill. Maybe one shot could have been argued as being an accident, I don't know, but four shots (not forgetting the slight delay between shots two and three)... no chance.
Interesting today was Nel saying how the first shot his Reeva's right hip as she was stood next to the door, and hearing Oscar be unable to find a reason why she'd have been in that position if they weren't talking or arguing. He will not concede a single thing, it must surely cost him his freedom in the end.
He wouldn't admit he pulled the trigger of the gun beneath the table when he got his mate to take the rap for it, despite a ballistics expect stating it is impossible for that particular gun to go off accidentally; the trigger must be pulled. Surely he should have admitted his mistake!
Everything points to him being a negligent gun owner whose attitude towards carrying his pistol around and using it is a sheer disgrace. Send him down.
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