Pistorious is not guilty of murder

[Tamas]

Fuck this shit, this is even more ridiculous than the OJ case.

He was using the lamest fucking excuse I have ever heard. How THE FUCK when you are living with somebody, is your first reaction upon hearing noise from the BATHROOM to fire through the door?

[Eddie Teach]

It worked for Butch. Course, he knew his girl was back at the hotel...

[DGuller]

Unfortunately, when even a top prosecutors squares off against a top defense counsel, defense wins most of the time.  That's the downside of the biased criminal system.  That's even assuming that everything is on the up and up. 

I'm not surprised at all at the outcome, especially given that it wasn't even a jury trial.  Lawyers are trained to be much more comfortable with miscarriage of justice than lay people.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Unfortunately, when even a top prosecutors squares off against a top defense counsel, defense wins most of the time.  That's the downside of the biased criminal system.  That's even assuming that everything is on the up and up. 

Lawyers are trained to be much more comfortable with miscarriage of justice than lay people.

If anything that is their goal in criminal trials, rather than a by product.

[HVC]

Don't worry, her family will sue in civil court and a few years later he'll be arrested for stealing memorabilia. It's all good.

[Ed Anger]

Fuck this shit, this is even more ridiculous than the OJ case.

He was using the lamest fucking excuse I have ever heard. How THE FUCK when you are living with somebody, is your first reaction upon hearing noise from the BATHROOM to fire through the door?

Joe Biden told me to fire through doors.

[Grey Fox]

Because SAfrican Justice is weird, we get of what he's not guilty of first. Also not guilty of fraud.

[CountDeMoney]

Can't defend his actions.  He's not a Raven.

[derspiess]

Fuck this shit, this is even more ridiculous than the OJ case.

He was using the lamest fucking excuse I have ever heard. How THE FUCK when you are living with somebody, is your first reaction upon hearing noise from the BATHROOM to fire through the door?

Joe Biden told me to fire through doors.

With a shotgun, though.  Not with a pistol.

[PRC]

He is not guilty of premeditated murder.  He could still be convicted of culpable homicide as he may not have meant to kill his girlfriend, but he fired four shots through his bathroom door clearly meaning to kill whoever was on the other side.

[CountDeMoney]

Meh, he'll walk.  GET IT

[DGuller]

Meh, he'll walk.  GET IT

[Capetan Mihali]

He is not guilty of premeditated murder.  He could still be convicted of culpable homicide as he may not have meant to kill his girlfriend, but he fired four shots through his bathroom door clearly meaning to kill whoever was on the other side.

The little bit of reading I did on this said that the judge found that the government just couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt the mental state (premeditation) for the murder charged, but also concluded in her written decision that he had been acting recklessly by firing the shots.

So he has apparently already been convicted of the lesser offense, basically a kind of manslaughter, and it carries up to 15 years in prison (although no prison time has to be imposed).  I haven't followed the story, but this hardly seems like an outrageous turn of events...

[Malthus]

Meh, he'll walk.  GET IT

Naw, his defence didn't have a leg to stand on.

[DGuller]

Lame.