OSCAR PISTORIUS MURDER TRIAL: the blade runner oscar pistorius shoots girlfriend

[Duchess]

HaHaFuckingHa!

[ramseycat]

What Duchess said.

[Duchess]

I hate that he is given ANY special consideration.

I could easily do house arrest. Shiiiiit.

[Clang McFly]

I hate that he is given ANY special consideration.

I could easily do house arrest. Shiiiiit.

I could easily do house arrest as long as I wasn't locked up with brother and dad.

[HairOfTheDog]

I hate that he is given ANY special consideration.

I could easily do house arrest. Shiiiiit.

He'll be out of prison and on house arrest as of Tuesday.


Pistorius will be placed under correctional supervision (a form of house arrest) as of October 20.

In a statement, the Parole Board said it considered all submissions, including the offender's profile report, the directives of the Parole Review Board, and the submission of the victim's family, before making its decision.

Conditions placed upon Pistorius include continued psychotherapy and prohibitions in line with the Fire Arms Control Act Section 103.

In June the parents of Steenkamp said they've forgiven Pistorius for killing their "precious daughter," and in a written statement to the Parole Board added, "we do not seek to avenge her death and we do not want Mr. Pistorius to suffer; that will not bring her back to us."

But the bereaved parents added that, in their view, "incarceration of 10 months for taking a life is simply not enough."

Unlike the United States, in South Africa prosecutors can actually appeal an acquittal in a homicide, and so "it is very possible he could end up going back to prison for a minimum of 15 years," Diane Bass, a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles, told CBS News.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oscar-pistor...on-parole/
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I don't have much faith that Pistorius will go back to prison for years on appeal. But, I won't be surprised if he violates his parole or assaults somebody else and ends up back in prison for a separate crime.

[Duchess]

Great, just great. I don't view this as any different than him getting away with murder. No justice at all for Reeva.

[afraidforallofus]

Oscar Pistorius found guilty of murder on appeal, his manslaughter verdict being overturned.

Hands up anyone who thought he was innocent. Anyone? Hello.......

[Duchess]

Oh happy day! This is wonderful news! He will be returning to the slammer, right?

It was a slap in the face to all those who cared about Reeva when that fuck was allowed to do house arrest in a mansion. I felt like he got away with murder.

[afraidforallofus]

Well, he didn't get away with it

[afraidforallofus]

Seems like he's looking at a minimum of 15 years

[HairOfTheDog]

Thanks for the update, afraidforallofus. It's good news.

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius' conviction for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp has been scaled up to murder from culpable homicide by South Africa's top appeals court.

"Blade Runner" Pistorius could now be sent back to jail for at least 15 years for shooting Steenkamp dead on Valentine's Day 2013. The athlete is expected to be sentenced for the new murder conviction by a lower court at a date still to be determined.

"This is a human tragedy of Shakespearean proportions," Judge Eric Leach said as he started reading the ruling.

At the original trial in September last year, Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled that the state had failed to prove intent or "dolus eventualis," a legal concept that centers on a person being held responsible for the foreseeable consequences of their actions.

Dolus eventualis refers to whether a person foresees the possibility that his or her action will cause death but carries on regardless.

"In these circumstances, the accused must have foreseen and, therefore, did foresee that whoever was behind the toilet door might die but reconciled himself to that even occurring and gambled with that person's life," said Judge Leach.

"The identity of his victim is irrelevant to his guilt." <-- Exactly, I never understood Masipa's ruling, which conflicted with her explanation for the ruling.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/osca...b2818d4926

[ramseycat]

This may be a stupid question, but how can they go back and convict him if murder? Do they not gave double jeopardy there?

[HairOfTheDog]

It's not a dumb question at all, rams.

In South Africa, both the defense and the prosecution can appeal a judge's verdict.

In the Pistorius case, the prosecution appealed Judge Masipa's verdict on the basis that she erred in applying the law.

The Supreme Court agreed with the prosecution and ruled that if the law had been applied correctly to the evidence presented in the case, Pistorius would have been found guilty of murder. The Supreme Court directly corrected the lower court's error by ruling him guilty of murder and they will re-sentence him accordingly.

(If the Supreme Court had instead ordered that Pistorius be retried, the defense could have objected on the grounds of double jeopardy IF no new evidence had been produced since the first trial.)

[afraidforallofus]

Both sides can lodge appeals here in Oz too. Not in the US??

[HairOfTheDog]

Under our strict double jeopardy laws, the prosecution cannot appeal a jury or bench acquittal in the United States.

The one (rare) exception: If the judge or prosecutor is proven to have acted fraudulently on behalf of the defendant (bribed to rig an acquittal), the acquittal can be reversed and the defendant can be retried. In such a case, double jeopardy doesn't apply because the defendant's freedom was not actually in jeopardy the first time he/she was tried for the same crime.

[Maggot]

This guy seems to be wasting good oxygen that should go to someone that deserves it more.

[Duchess]

He's a murderer with no more self control than a 2 yr. old.

[afraidforallofus]

He had the world at his feet.

Oh, wait............

[Maggot]

He'll have to turn in that ankle bracelet.

[Midwest Spy]

I never thought he had a leg to stand on.