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Oscar to walk.

Post by rainbow » Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:46 am

...and they said he didn't have a leg to stand on.
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by tattuchu » Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:50 am

Unbelievable. What's the consensus amongst the people over there, rainbow? From all I've read about the case, he seems guilty as fuck.
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by rainbow » Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:56 am

tattuchu wrote:Unbelievable. What's the consensus amongst the people over there, rainbow? From all I've read about the case, he seems guilty as fuck.
No consensus, but a lot of people think he's got off lightly.

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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by tattuchu » Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:04 am

Well I bet he's got a real spring in his step now :?
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by rainbow » Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:08 am

This story has been running for a while, but there is no need to leap to conclusions.
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by cronus » Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:12 am

He couldn't know what was behind the door. Could have been anything. Especially if he was half asleep and heard only movements from the toilet. Would you wait for the flush and the door to open?
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by JimC » Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:35 am

They're almost as gun crazy over there as the US...
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by Hermit » Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:35 am

If he heard movements behind the toilet door it would have been reasonable to expect hearing a flush next. It's what normally happens. I don't know why the judge saw any solid footing in the defence's argument.
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by Svartalf » Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:39 am

The prosecution ought to appeal the verdict.
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by rainbow » Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:52 am

Would they take that step?
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by Faithfree » Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:37 pm

It looks like "I was legless at the time" is a workable defense after all.
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by jaydot » Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:55 pm

it's almost a shame that the judge is so punctilious. her argument for not convicting on the murder charge is that the prosecution didn't make a convincing (beyond reasonable doubt) case. never mind the fact that pistorious appears to be an entitled whiner, who probably shot shit out of the door in a fit of pique, reasonable doubt allows for him to be confused and frightened. the judge is giving him the benefit of that doubt.
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by cronus » Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:27 pm



Easy to work out what talks in a trial like this..... :nono:
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by JimC » Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:07 pm

Faithfree wrote:It looks like "I was legless at the time" is a workable defense after all.
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Re: Oscar to walk.

Post by Warren Dew » Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:37 pm

rainbow wrote:
tattuchu wrote:Unbelievable. What's the consensus amongst the people over there, rainbow? From all I've read about the case, he seems guilty as fuck.
No consensus, but a lot of people think he's got off lightly.
Do we even know what his sentence is to be, yet?

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