jilly
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Same here..maybe non-subscribers are only allowed one time to access articles on their website.
That's not fair!:crazy:
Same here..maybe non-subscribers are only allowed one time to access articles on their website.
That is too funny !! :floorlaugh:
That's not fair!:crazy:
Nathi Mncube, spokesman for the prosecuting authority, said the prosecution was preparing the legal documents and will file them, formally starting the appeal process, by Tuesday Nov. 4..
First, the Supreme Court has to approve the move to appeal, a decision based on whether it is likely that a different judge would have reached a different verdict from Judge Masipa.
If the move to appeal is rejected, the prosecution may appeal that rejection. Ms. Phelps said that the decision to accept or reject a move to appeal is normally made within 21 days of the formal appeal launch.
If the appeal is accepted, then a single Supreme Court judge will hear the appeal case.
But it's hard to see why he could have changed his mind, given that he stated:
The law is quite clear. If you can escape the imminent danger without putting your life in danger you have to do it. If you kill a person it must be in such severe circumstances that theres virtually no other way open to protect your life.
I mean, that's where his defence falls down for me, even if one accepts that he thought there was a burglar. He went out of his way to confront danger, when he could have left the bedroom with Reeva, locking the door behind them.
BIB - even knowing that OP had used a gun before when angry, and knowing that Reeva had made it clear she was wary of OP and his temper - Masipa didn't once accept that it was 'reasonably possibly true' that Reeva honestly believed her life was in danger on the night she was killed.Yes, unless he originally meant that OP would not be acquitted altogether because he went out of his way to confront danger.
Apart from De Oliveira, every case cited results in a verdict of CH. And, had De Oliveira given evidence, I suspect that he also may have escaped a murder conviction.
Judging by those cases, in order to convict of murder, everything seems to turn on whether the Court accepts that it is reasonably possibly true that the killer honestly believed that his life was in danger.
Hey! I was JUST able to access the entire article..I think it's against the forum rules to post an entire article. Maybe we are allowed to read one article per day..:thinking:
I'm from the deep south as in Louisiana. "I do declare" does not mean "thank you." Most often it meant surprise at what was being said, or even a mild form of expressing a distaste of something. Of course it doesn't matter and the saying is extremely very rarely said anymore.
I came back to this thread to ask if it is really true there will be an appeal in this case. I still don't know the answer!
Thanks!
Right.
Strange. I just tried it again and nothing. I've only read it once and that was yesterday....I think.
Here's the black eye. But I'm sure I remember seeing more photos, showing him with people at the event.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/oscar-pistorius-mystery-blade-runners-1727475
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Especially as OP was not strictly a first-time offender. He just happened to have weaseled his way out of being punished for the other crimes. Reeva's killing was the first time he was held to account, but it most certainly was not his first offence.
Oh my goodness! Dancing with a black eye and a gun? Lol! What a complete and utter tool...
With what we are finding out about OP, I can't understand why a lovely girl such as Reeva would date him twice let alone for 10 weeks. She met him on Nov 4 and this event would have occurred either the next week or the week after. I wonder if they had any dates in that time? Maybe OP avoided her while he had the black eye and was sorting out his problems with Quentin Van der Burgh and Sam Taylor. But surely people told her about this fight unless he lied to her about how it was caused and she chose to believe him. They did not seem to start dating regularly until December, 2013 and I read that Reeva followed Sam Taylor on Instagram to keep up to date with what was going on with ST and OP.
Was this before or after he told Batchelor he'd break his legs, I wonder.
But it's hard to see why he could have changed his mind, given that he stated:
The law is quite clear. If you can escape the imminent danger without putting your life in danger you have to do it. If you kill a person it must be in such severe circumstances that theres virtually no other way open to protect your life.
I mean, that's where his defence falls down for me, even if one accepts that he thought there was a burglar. He went out of his way to confront danger, when he could have left the bedroom with Reeva, locking the door behind them.
I've had some horrendous dreams about slim blonde models and I'm thinking of suing OP
1st Sentence BBM - I had seen the first link before which let us know that the black-eye-vid took place around Jan. 24, 2013, but I was never able to find out where the vid shoot took place.
I had never seen the below link (Ty) before. Does anybody know if vid was shot in Cape Town? If so, then the vid was most likely taken while OP and buddies were on their extended road trip to Cape Town... the road trip which imo caused RS to say in that long WhatsApp mgs complaining about OP's behavior towards her on Jan. 26 & 27: "you have picked on me incessantly since you got back from CT."
http://www.mambaonline.com/article.asp?artid=7888
<snipped>The South African videos will be launched as part of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre’s In Whom Can I Still Trust? exhibition, which looks at homophobia in Nazi Germany and the gay rights movement in South Africa, on February 20 at 7:00 pm. <snipped>
@JudgeJudi - do you know if Masipa has ANY input to the process ? Does she have to explain why she came to her conclusion ?