11-24-2017, 02:04 PM
(07-06-2016, 09:31 AM)QueenBee Wrote: I take issue with the fact he KNEW his girlfriend was in the home....hears a noise in the bathroom in middle of the night, and automatically thinks intruder? I call bullshit on that defense. Have all along. He does not get my sympathy vote at all.
I don't have any sympathy for him either. His story was unbelievable and his sentence was way too light.
Fortunately, that sentence has just been doubled by an Appeals Judge in South Africa.
The prosecution had appealed the original 6 year sentence, arguing that it was too lenient and showed favored treatment due to his celebrity.
Pistorius' new sentence is 13 years.
More: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/24/africa/osc...index.html