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Pistorius, the blade runner, shot his girlfriend?
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They found anabolic steroids at Pistorius house, and also evidence of heavy drinking night of murder:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...r-charge-steroids-found-at-athletes-home.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...r-charge-steroids-found-at-athletes-home.html
If proved at trial that would go a long way towards explaining this tragedy.
Well, we seem to have a homicide, but hardly premeditated.
Smart defence counsel should be thinking of an intoxication defence to cut the rap down to manslaughter and avoid a murder conviction. However, I doubt Pistorius is smart enough to do that. I suspect he will try and protect his fading career and endorsement deals by clinging to his "intruder" story.
Smart defence counsel should be thinking of an intoxication defence to cut the rap down to manslaughter and avoid a murder conviction. However, I doubt Pistorius is smart enough to do that. I suspect he will try and protect his fading career and endorsement deals by clinging to his "intruder" story.
Due to increasing levels of violence and anti-social behaviour, police have released a new table of classification to categorise levels of drunkeness:
1-2 Units - Reasonably Sober - Could probably drive.
2-5 Units - A bit tipsy - Take care
5-10 Units - Fairly Drunk - Starting to stagger
10-15 Units - Ratarsed - May throw up and consider shagging a fat bird
15+ Units - Completely Pistorius - Legless. Unable to differntiate between a big black man and a small white woman. Likely to resort to lethal violence at the slightest provocation.
I think that his counsel will try to plea bargain manslaughter and try to get a reduced sentence weather Pistorius agrees or not is an open question.
Thats exactly what I was thinking.
They were both partying, drank too much, possibly drugs involved. They got into a domestic fight/argument. Dude went into a fullblown, drunk roid rage. She tried to protect herself with a cricket bat, he grabs his gun and shoots her.
My bet is a manslaughter plea deal (if they have those in SA), and 15 years in the pen
Just remember you were the guy that people very recently were accusing of being a pimp. You will notice that I was not one of these people.
The cricket bat suggests the fractured skull she suffered. Cricket bats are pretty hefty implements. They are far heavier and chunkier than baseball bats and if you are hit with one, it's gonna break bone.
If she smashed him with the bat, he would be heavily bruised at least and that would give him a self-defence angle.
My guess is that he smashed her skull with the bat in a fit of roid rage. Then he realized that he had severly injured or killed her and invented the intruder defence and put some bullets into her to make sure she never gave her side of the story - if she ever recovered from the blow with the bat.
The bullets are your premeditated murder. The Crown would argue that the blow severely damaged her skull, but did not kill her.
I was about to post that they must be lighter, based on feel, but I'll be doggoned, you are right a Cricket bat is 9 to 18 ounces (.26 to .51 kilograms) heaver than an Ash baseball bat.
And whilst a cricket bat has a wide front surface, it is actually triangular in shape vs round for BB bat. So a blow with the edge would deliver tremendous crushing force.
BTW I was hoping that an Aardvark would have had more insight into a South African crime
And the weight is concentrated in the blade which is shorter and more compact than the striking surface of a baseball bat.
Its better to go straight to 20+ units, completely piss-drunk and pass out before you can hurt anyone
Sorry, it tis but a TERB handle.BTW I was hoping that an Aardvark would have had more insight into a South African crime
Pisto still going with the burglar defense: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/02/19/oscar-pistorius-south-africa-court.html
This tells me he probably has too much pride to admit he killed her during a domestic dispute. His own pride will be his downfall I think
This tells me he probably has too much pride to admit he killed her during a domestic dispute. His own pride will be his downfall I think
