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The unanswered questions about the release of Oscar Pistorius from jail to home detention
OCTOBER 23, 2015
According to legal expert Dr Llewellyn Curlewis, a criminal barrister and former president of the South African Law Society, there is no case of rock star treatment for the one-time national sporting hero. In fact, his sentence is being served to the letter of the law...
... Dr Curlewis believes the appeal will fail.The appeal judges have to rule that the decision was palpably wrong, he said. This is a very politically sensitive case and the appeal judges come from the same background as Judge Masipa. There is no new evidence produced. It is all done by going through the evidence presented in the trial. They will have already done their reading. The decision will only take a few hours, and I think they will give her the benefit of the doubt...
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The unanswered questions about the release of Oscar Pistorius from jail to home detention
OCTOBER 23, 2015
According to legal expert Dr Llewellyn Curlewis, a criminal barrister and former president of the South African Law Society, there is no case of rock star treatment for the one-time national sporting hero. In fact, his sentence is being served to the letter of the law...
... Dr Curlewis believes the appeal will fail.The appeal judges have to rule that the decision was palpably wrong, he said. This is a very politically sensitive case and the appeal judges come from the same background as Judge Masipa. There is no new evidence produced. It is all done by going through the evidence presented in the trial. They will have already done their reading. The decision will only take a few hours, and I think they will give her the benefit of the doubt...
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