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I too think there were more than two. But do not remember - need to look up again.

The defence team never made it clear what their defence was. Nel made a lot of noise about it during OP's cross examination, and, I don't remember clearly any more, but possibly in his HOA also - remember the term 'mutually destructive'? Eventually, in her verdict, Masipa picked up various...

The riddle that is Masipa is going to trouble us for a long time. One main reason that I find it difficult to subscribe to the view - that her sympathy for OP is the reason behind her verdicts - is the utter disrespect for Reeva and now Barry Steenkamp that comes out in her judgement. I...

From whatever we saw of her in this trial, `weak' is a gross understatement here!

Very well said. She basically labelled everyone differing from her verdict as `public', so very convenient for her, isn't it. Somebody should go tell her that even school kids are capable of much better reasoning than her - so no wonder that the `public', which also includes SCA judges in this...

I hope everyone pays attention to what you say there.

I think ALL cases handled by Masipa should be reviewed. This was a high profile case, watched by the whole world. God knows what she would have done in cases where no one was paying any attention. That would also tell the authorities whether it is her incompetence, or something else...

I think we would have lost more time following the trial than OP would to imprisonment!

Probably. But I am still hoping that she will surprise us.

Pistorius brothers have made sure that nobody will know what it was over, there can only be speculation about this part.

I also feel the interview must have been the Pistorius family's idea. The defence team could not risk OP taking the stand and mess up everything like he did in the original trial. To explain this away, they got Scholtz to certify that OP is in bad shape, needs hospitalization. In that...

Go to the Oscar Pistorius Forum page (following this link: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?536-Oscar-Pistorius or by doing a search). You will now see a "Post new thread" link on the left, as in the following screenshot:

Thanks for the link to the interview. I am rather disappointed with the interview to be honest. Not necessarily because of his views here, but he gets some of the crucial things terribly wrong! He keeps referring to OP being panic stricken, vulnerable. These are things that could only come...

On that note, does anyone know what happened to the JJ & MrFossil blog? I was so looking forward to their posts, and then one day the blog disappeared!

Legal experts, do you find any substance in the argument so far? All I see are what we have known from the main trial are Roux's strength: namely, confuse, confound and distract.

It's simple really, isn't it? Any reasonable person would know that removing things from a crime scene is a grave offence, there is a good chance of getting caught, being charged and being sent to prison. So why would he do that, despite that huge risk involved? Only reason can be that the...

Couldn't agree more. Till then, I am making full use of the `ignore' buttons on the forum as well as inside my head! There is a problem with that, though. You tend to miss the occasional good posts in between that are surrounded by these meaningless and repetitive ones.

Sure, he has not confused me either, I am still in the DD club. And I am not presenting any excuse for Masipa's verdict. To this day, her written judgement is a big puzzle to me - whether it is just incompetence or something else.

I am sure he was. Indeed, I am very sure he knows what happened that night. As I said, I never liked him one bit. But there is no denying that he did his best to save his client and did a fine job. Those rules are there, but I doubt they are followed by everyone - if they were, half the court...

RSBM. Agree completely. But Roux played an active part in inducing that error. He managed to confuse some of the witnesses at various stages, and of course Masipa for the entire length of the trial. When the facts were stacked so heavily against his client, that was commendable, I thought. Of...