Oscar Pistorius Not Guilty of Murder, Negligent

Im not surprised anymore after the OJ trial.

Justice might be served later.

Oscar should go to Vegas and sell some olympic memorbilia

Glad to see other countries justice systems are just as broken as ours are.

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Originally Posted by mvmac

And how do you jump to the assumption that there's an intruder in the bathroom when the door is closed?

And your girlfriend is not in the bed next to you.  This part also confuses me:

So he fired because he thought it was an intruder and not his girlfriend.  But then he said he fired accidentally.  That reminds me of the lawyer in a murder trial where I was on the jury arguing (almost) simultaneously that his client didn't do it AND was acting in self defense.  (Seriously)

Without knowing a lick about the South African judicial system ... it looks like perhaps this isn't over.  It sounds like she just determined that he wasn't guilty of premeditated murder, and there is still a chance that she can find him guilty of "culpable homicide" which I imagine is similar to our "Second degree murder???"

The judge didn't say that.

He is most likely going to be found guilty of culpable homicide.

She believes that " a reasonable person" would know that what he did was likely to kill whoever was behind the door.

The state didn't prove that he intended to kill Steenkamp.

He'll get a couple of years based on the firearms charges and the culpable homicide.

The best we can hope for is that Pistorius becomes a pariah like OJ Simpson without any source of income and no sponsors, who is heckled wherever he goes.

The charge of premeditated murder was never ever going to fly.

I'm just wondering why she was fully clothed.

Sorry but I'm not paying close attention to this but were they not arguing before this happened? I would just assume she wanted to get away from him and locking herself in the bathroom was the only option she could think of?

That is what the state said, and most people (who weren't there ) think that.

In summary, it went like this:

He claims he thought she was asleep.

People heard a woman screaming and  bangs.

In court, the defence said that Pistorious sounds like a woman when he screams.

His story: He broke the door down with a bat and was screaming when he realised what he had done.

The judge dismissed the testimony of the witnesses because they had nothing to compare the screams to, essentially.

On the contrary, it was legendary prosecution. Some of the best you will ever see.The prosecutor, Gerrie Nel was amazing. He was relentless.

Problem was, it was always going to come down to not being able to prove intent.

From what I understand based on the stuff I heard on the radio, it can range from a few years of jail time to simple probation. Life is off the table.