Trial Discussion Thread #26 - 14.04.15, Day 23

[Mr Fossil]

Did Dixon say height of model on knees is 1.1m? Height of Pistorius without prosthetics is 1.55m according to Mangena's testimony. Not sure if relevant.

 

[Freya1977]

I read that it was on the market - he's having to sell to pay for his defence.

I thought he would. Drastically reduced price I'm assuming!

 

[Val1]

Wow, OP just read out that Valentine's card with hardly any emotion in his voice Reeva said (shortened/not verbatim .. I need to go back and check exact words later) "today is a good day to tell you I love you"

from @alexcrawford

link

 

[Freya1977]

Did Dixon say height of model on knees is 1.1m? Height of Pistorius without prosthetics is 1.55m according to Mangena's testimony. Not sure if relevant.

I'd say very relevant!

 

[Freya1977]

So this guy is a geologist but also a lighting expert and also a wood and cricket bat damage expert?

 

[Freya1977]

from @alexcrawford

link

That's sad

 

[Cherwell]

So this guy is a geologist but also a lighting expert and also a wood and cricket bat damage expert?

Multitasking .....

 

[G.bng]

His BA was a confession to culpable homicide.

The defense is desperate now. OP buried himself. He claimed he was not shooting at an intruder in self defense. He claimed now that the gun went off on it's own.

His limitless contradictions have effectively negated his entire testimony. The state now has an irrefutable prima face case:

Dead body
Admitted killer
No reasonable explanation killing. It wasn't in self-defense. OP was very clear about that.

I know what you mean and know the evidence and I sincerely hope you're right and my concerns are wrong. Not because I think OP premeditatedly killed Reeva, because I have tended more towards the idea that he shot at what he recklessly concluded was an intruder because my view has always been that even an intruder has rights and that it is morally wrong to shoot without any prior warning at an intruder cornered in a tiny toilet. I think CH proven and probably murder too of an intruder... but can the judge make the jump from Reeva to intruder without the PT making any argument for it, that is my worry.
JMO

 

[Linda7NJ]

Just marking.


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[Really?]

Dude is laughing while testifying ,......judge not happy.

 

[Forensics]

NEWS JUST IN: The SA Human Rights Commission says it has rejected the complaint against Gerrie Nel.

Twitter BB

 

[Freya1977]

Oh we are going to hear the cricket bat sounds

 

[04009margaret]

A shooting range is not a tiled bathroom

 

[AlexUK]

Oh we are going to hear the cricket bat sounds

Perhaps that's all the speakers were for.....no screaming!

 

[Freya1977]

60m cricket bat sound about to be played

 

[LaLaw2000]

Perhaps that's all the speakers were for.....no screaming!

Well, thank goodness!

 

[Freya1977]

OK the cricket bat does sound like a gun

 

[kaos]

Oh we are going to hear the cricket bat sounds

And he's hardly a 27 year old with excellent upper body strength.

 

[Interested Bystander]

Gee, maybe Mrs Stipp started closing her curtains after testifying against an accused killer. Who could blame her?

Also, now there are properties closer to their home (built between OP's house and theirs ) which means they have less privacy necessitating they close the curtains. I have to say I thought the actual curtains were patterned in the Stipp home photos. Those shown today could be net curtains.


As now has been pointed out to me, the curtain were plain and light in colour.

 

[LaLaw2000]

A shooting range is not a tiled bathroom

This is ridiculous, IMO. The sounds could not be the same..............not replicated under the same conditions.