Oscar Pistorius - Sentencing - 7.6.2016

[cottonweaver]

Liezl Thom @liezlthom
#OscarPistorius JudgeMasipa defence's argument that perception of argument lead to murder was inadvertently confirmed by BarrySteenkamp

 

[Paul Connelly]

So, no mitigating factors but similarly no aggravating factors seems to be her line...

 

[Really?]

.shes going light.....I'm getting sick

 

[cottonweaver]

repeats again - serious crime, devastating result- circs do not decrease the seriousness

 

[Susza]

did she ?
Mistake ? she said 'mistake'?
She cant speak in FULL sentences

I agree. I have trouble to follow her...
So thanks for your comments that help me

 

[mrjitty]

Why is he called the accused? Wasn't he found GUILTY already?

Standard.

 

[Paul Connelly]

Oscar will detest Masipa invoking the pain of Barry and Kim. After all, it's all about him!

 

[cottonweaver]

Masipa addresses that there's a perception that OP and Reeva Steenkamp were involved in an argument on the night of the murder. The judge says she can’t ignore this perception.

This will be mitigating for OP as no evidence of argument.

 

[kaos]

I didn't understand what she was saying about Reeva's father letting something 'slip out' about a fight between OP and Reeva that night....?

It sounds like she was dismissing Mr Steenkamp's 'perceptions' that they argued that night.

 

[Cloen]

impact on family , she's taken notice

 

[Paul Connelly]

I think she's going to play this with a straight bat. 15 years less time served.

 

[kaos]

Masipa addresses that there's a perception that OP and Reeva Steenkamp were involved in an argument on the night of the murder. The judge says she can’t ignore this perception.

I took it that she was ignoring it rather than accepting it.

 

[Cloen]

I didn't understand what she was saying about Reeva's father letting something 'slip out' about a fight between OP and Reeva that night....?

no evidence that there was an argument referred to by Barry Steenkamp

 

[cottonweaver]

no DV evidence

misperceptions of the public are important in her sentence

 

[Paul Connelly]

Masipa addresses that there's a perception that OP and Reeva Steenkamp were involved in an argument on the night of the murder. The judge says she can’t ignore this perception.

This will be mitigating for OP as no evidence of argument.

She's admonishing all us naughty truth seekers...

 

[patCee]

Here we go, mitigation coming.

 

[JudgeJudi]

Here it comes ... her sentence. Whoops. She has to rephrase!

 

[cottonweaver]

I took it that she was ignoring it rather than accepting it.

Correct kaos

 

[Really?]

15. 15. 15.

 

[Cloen]

grounds for imprisonment , masipa says Court can determine sentence,