Or look on WordPress at Juror # 13. Which is a member's excellent blog, she has photos that many hadn't seen.
OK .. cool .. found it .. thanks!
Or look on WordPress at Juror # 13. Which is a member's excellent blog, she has photos that many hadn't seen.
It's that the evidence does not match his story. That neighbors heard a woman screaming. That neighbors heard two set of gun shots. That OP did not follow the advice given to him about taking Reeva to the hospital. It's all of the things added up together about this case.
Look, OP can tell whatever story he wants to since he is the only living person that was involved that night. He can claim anything that he wants to. The problem is that his claims and his story have to match the evidence and make sense. So far, they don't. I don't buy that 5 different witnesses heard wrong concerning a woman screaming. I don't buy that everyone (cops, witnesses, state lawyers, everyone) is lying to railroad OP. I don't buy that this is some big conspiracy that was set up just to get OP, no matter what kind of celebrity he is.
MOO
Why is there a hole in your bedroom door?
Why are there jeans on the patio outside, below bathroom?
Why did you have black talons bullets in your gun?
And most importantly....
Why don't you take a seat and tell us THE WHOLE TRUTH?
OP trial affi: "I heard the bathroom window sliding open"
Whoa. He heard that just after closing the curtains/doors in the bedroom? Hope Nel tested to see if that's possible, because I doubt it is.
Did the doctor say OP told him that? OP trying to open Reeva's airway so he could start rescue breaths? Seriously? With her brain matter all her and everywhere he dragged her?
You might have missed this, but the doctor explained that he was trying to open her airway and give her rescue breaths.
How do you think they'll reconcile the shots heard by the Stipps?
6 shots - all gunshots?
OK .. cool .. found it .. thanks!
No the doctor observed Oscar doing this and said it during his testimony.
Yeah, seriously. For realz.
I put it to you :smile: ...if he thought Reeva was still in the bed...
Could he have been going towards danger in order to protect Reeva?
Better to tackle an intruder in another room away from Reeva?
You can keep suggesting your definition of imminent danger, but it will still be wrong. All that matters is what SA and Judge Masipa recognise. That isn't going to change.
SA Law (as we currently understand)
If you have the belief that a person would injure you or someone close to you and even possibly kill you as a result of this attack, you may use any and all means to defend yourself.
The nature of the threat only has to be imminent, and you do not need to be able to see your attacker.
Nel doesn't even need to trip him up. All he needs to do is ask one question:
"At what point did you decide to kill the person you heard in the bathroom?"
What charges do you think the state should have gone with after the case we have seen ?LOL - the State's own case isn't supported by its own witnesses
What charges do you think the state should have gone with after the case we have seen ?
Thanks .. I've got a fairly good idea of the actual layout itself from having researched some images previously .. it's just that none of them actually show the actual doors, especially the 'bedroom' one (they usually show the toilet door). I'll scroll back and see if I can locate the one you mention though, see if it sheds any light on it!
No, it would never be better to broadcast your location in the darkness to somebody who doesn't realize you heard them break in.
Do you have children?
I do.
If I heard a noise in the bathroom down the hall and even thought it might be an intruder, I would move to first guard my children, and then move them quietly to safety.
The dumbest thing possible is to put myself potentially in harms way. OP's story is self-contradictory. If he feared an intruder might shoot him, the dumbest thing to do would be to noisily approach the intruder through two dark passages, risking being shot and leaving Reeva helpless to defend herself.
Also, re imminent danger from an attack... there was no attack. There was only an unarmed woman in a toilet stall. The only person in imminent danger was Reeva.
What charges do you think the state should have gone with after the case we have seen ?