LOL!!! Lightbulb moment indeed...
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If the accused woke in night and in darkness saw a silhouette hovering next to his bed and then fired a shot, only to discover he had shot the deceased. In that case his conduct would have been understandable and perhaps even excusable. In that situation he would have been faced with a real emergency.
But in the situation the court was dealing with, Pistorius would have had a reasonable amount of time to think and act and conduct himself reasonably.
I am not persuaded that a reasonable person in his circumstances would have fired four shots into that small toilet cubicle, she said.
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She said a reasonable person would have foreseen the possibility that firing four shots into a small toilet cubicle could result in any person behind the door being shot and dying.
The reasonable person, she said, would have taken steps to prevent that from happening.
http://www.enca.com/oscar-trial-pistorius-guilty-negligence