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Pistorians may not have addressed it, but posters who think he could be telling the truth have.

Thank you for your opinion However, whether the original poster said 'Reeva' or 'the woman about to be shot' or 'female', the point remains. It is not a fact of the case that has been proved and accepted that the screaming the neighbours heard was that of reeva. Reeva is usually referred...

I was responding to this : THE FACTS? What about the neighbours hearing Reeva screaming in fear of her life, blood curdling screams , like a home invasion was taking place. Since Reeva wasn't identified by the neighbours as the source of the screams, it's not a fact that they heard...

Jubjub is pretty famous in SA Did the neighbours identify reeva as the source of the screams? No. Did the phone data support the claim thar Reeva screamed before being shot? No. They weren't lying. But they may well have been mistaken. Yes. Intruders. Even in the safest Estate. It had...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/oscar-pistorius-murder-trial-will-be-broadcast-on-live-television-9152702.html http://m.smh.com.au/world/oscar-pistorius-lawyers-object-to-live-broadcast-of-trial-20140218-hvcz7.html...

BIB Yes they did!

A man gets high then races his car in the street during the day, killing four children and leaving two with permanent brain damage vs man with significant disability hears a noise metres away in his own house in the early hours, mistakenly assumes it is an intruder, investigates the noise and...

There was no point d)!! And BIB - didn't I say that? The discussion was about Masipa's original sentence, not the SCA, but I even specifically wrote 'much less/no rational basis' to reflect what I thought might reflect Masipa's thinking ('much less') at the original trial AND the SCA at the...

The cases have similarities. They don't equate. No two cases are the same. References keep getting made to the Mdunge case because it is one of the few recent examples of someone killing someone else under the mistaken impression that it was an intruder.

I think it's one of the things that made the Pistorius case on the CH /DE border rather than a more straightforward CH. Mdunge fired once, and the fact that the door was opening provides a rational albeit mistaken basis for believing an attack was beginning. Pistorius fired four times (so on...

So much wrong with this article.... Eg The opening paragraph doesn't appear to mention that most legal experts have interpreted the sentence as a minimum of three years in prison, (presumably followed by parole/CS rather than 'freedom') The next point re stealing a phone before killing his...

I understand your issue with Carl re the phone, but we don't know exactly what happened there. If police asked for all phones and he deliberately witheld that one, then yes- massive issue with tampering with evidence. If police didn't ask, then would anyone think to volunteer it? Probably...

Do they really have to keep being labelled 'arrogant'? They have supported a family member. They have faced labels, threats and criticism for a situation they didn't put themselves into. Pistorius damaged his own family as well as the Steenkamps with his actions on the morning of the 14th...

It wont happen, so please don't let that article get under your skin. That's exactly what it is trying to do :)

From the article: (OPs agent being interviewed) 'We usually talk about athletics when I see him. But he has said he is retired, and he does sound like he means it. ‘He isn’t training, just doing gym work at home. He seemed to have accepted what was going to happen to him, that he...