Oscar Pistorius: Guilty or Not Guilty?

[Jaiston]

Definitely guilty.

What amused be was that he claimed he didn't mean to shoot at anyone...despite shooting through the door 4 times.

[PTAO?]

Guilty. The first thing you'd do if you thought someone was in your house is check your partner is alright. Not unload four rounds into the bathroom door.

All of his tears in court sound completely genuine. Not because he's innocent, because he regrets what he did.

But regret it or not, he did it and should be punished accordingly.

I don't think it was premeditated, heat of the moment no doubt.

You ever lived in South Africa?

[Micky Quim]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/04/21 ... ns-before/

A South African journalist has claimed that Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius had received acting lessons before the start of his trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

Jani Allan, a former columnist for the South African Sunday Times, made the claim in a piece posted on her personal blog last week in the form of an open letter to the double-amputee runner.

"I have it from a reliable source that you are taking acting lessons for your days in court," Allan wrote. "Your coach has an impossible task."

Allan backed up the piece in an interview with the British newspaper The Sunday People, saying "I have this information from extremely reliable sources ... I have it on very good authority that Oscar is being coached on his court performance by a close actor friend, who is also famous in South Africa."

Prosecutors say Pistorius deliberately killed Steenkamp in the early morning hours of February 14, 2013 after the couple had argued. Pistorius claims that he had mistaken Steenkamp for a burglar when he shot her through the closed bathroom door in his house in a Pretoria gated community.

Pistorius' court appearances have been marked by frequent shows of emotion, most notably when he was cross-examined by state prosecutor Gerrie Nel. The trial, which began in March, has been adjourned until May 5 due to the Easter holiday and other commitments made by the various attorneys.

Allan has a checkered history of her own. In 1989, while still a columnist for the South African Sunday Times, regarded as white South Africa's paper of record, she was accused of having an affair with Eugene Terre-Blanche, a former interview subject and a prominent figure in South Africa's pro-apartheid movement. Allan has always having an affair.

[bodacious benny]

Guilty. The first thing you'd do if you thought someone was in your house is check your partner is alright. Not unload four rounds into the bathroom door.

All of his tears in court sound completely genuine. Not because he's innocent, because he regrets what he did.

But regret it or not, he did it and should be punished accordingly.

I don't think it was premeditated, heat of the moment no doubt.

You ever lived in South Africa?

Only for 17 months

[PTAO?]

You ever lived in South Africa?

Only for 17 months

What was it like?
I've never been myself, but from stories from a girl I used to know who lived there, I'm not so sure I wouldn't have over-reacted if I thought someone was in my bathroom (not saying he is innocent)

[bodacious benny]

There's no doubt that in some parts of the country you feel deeply unsafe. I don't know where he lived but I'd guess that it was some kind of highly secure gated community.

But that aside, people are still people and the first reaction of most people I knew out there if they heard a noise in their bathroom wouldn't be to unload four rounds into a bathroom door when you don't know who's in there, and when you weren't sure where your partner was.

[TJR]

He was living in a secure gated area with security guards. He knew that so the chances of there being an intruder were minimal anyway. But to wake up, notice your gilfreind wasn't next to you in your bed and hear someone in your bathroom, and assume its anyone other than your girlfriend is beyond ridiculous. He wants put in a mental asylum if his story is true. Its clearly not though, far too many flaws in it, he murdered her.

[overseasTOON]

I think we've all been in a situation where we've suffered disorientation caused by a sudden wakening and cannot recall if our partners we love and sleep with nightly are still in the bed with us but know exactly where we keep our loaded guns and insist on a shoot first, ask questions later policy.

[bodacious benny]

I think we've all been in a situation where we've suffered disorientation caused by a sudden wakening and cannot recall if our partners we love and sleep with nightly are still in the bed with us but know exactly where we keep our loaded guns and insist on a shoot first, ask questions later policy.

[Albert's Chip Shop]

He is guilty.
Having looked at the evidence I don't think he has much of a leg to stand on.