In this case there should be no difference as it is being televised live.The difference between what one hears in the courtroom, or even more so learns when involved in a case, and what one reads in even the best of newspapers is staggering.
We know that he has admitted shooting her through a locked door. I mean, we always heard that, but he has now openly admitted that himself on the stand.The very first thing (which almost certainly applies to all of us) is that I don't know nearly enough about the facts of the case to truly comment intelligently. The difference between what one hears in the courtroom, or even more so learns when involved in a case, and what one reads in even the best of newspapers is staggering.
I'm not looking at it live on television nor listening to it on the radio.In this case there should be no difference as it is being televised live.
Yah my high school buddy always told me his burglary stories from SA how 4-5 guys stormed into the house with ak47s when they had two armed securities. They had it happened twice to them and came to Canada.In general living in South Africa is different - I was on a conference call once (a while ago) with someone in their car - he had to hold the line for a minute or two while he ran a red light as he was concerned he was about to be stopped in a bad part of town - this was mid nineties, but it was normal for him...I don't think Pretorious is innocent, but laws are a little different over there
agreedMost people with "narcissistic personality disorder" (NPD) think the rest of world is mostly stupid, and they themselves are super smart.
Lance Armstrong
Roger Clemens
A-Rod
Conrad Black
Lovehobby
Just to name a few. They all suffer from this
I swear to God I wasnt there.4-5 guys stormed into the house with ak47s
Yes, to the first part of the above, however, one then applies potential defences. To start with but one: it was in my house in the middle of the night (that this is not a good defence in Canada does not mean that it is not in other Common Law jurisdictions. The prosecution then attempts to rebut that defence.We know that he has admitted shooting her through a locked door. I mean, we always heard that, but he has now openly admitted that himself on the stand.
To me that is a confession of second degree murder, at least. The trial should in any reasonable country now narrow in on whether it was a crime of passion or premeditated, and honestly I would buy that it was a fit of rage and not premeditated.
Yes, that is what I am saying. Unless his lawyers are nuts they believe he can say "I shot someone through a locked door" and expect that to be a defense rather than a confession.And are you claiming that a similar trial in a so-called "reasonable country" would by now have been abridged only to determination of degree of guilt?
I'm not aware of any jurisdictions in which murder is allowed if committed in your own home. I was listening to today's cross examination from the 'pit bull' prosecutor. He is poking a holes in Pistorius's statements suggesting that he didn't know who was in bathroom. Pistorius maintains that he went towards the bed to get his gun, talked to the victim without making eye contact (thus not realizing she wasn't in the bed). He did not ask 'did you hear that ?' or look to see if she was okay. This was totally opposite an incident with a previous gf when his dog knocked over something in the living room and he woke her up before checking out the problem. As the prosecutor suggests - who wouldn't take even a second to glance at the girl in the bed or solicit a response to confirm a conversation - particularly if there was a real danger ?To start with but one: it was in my house in the middle of the night (that this is not a good defence in Canada does not mean that it is not in other Common Law jurisdictions.
Why you didn't know that burglars often close the door and then lock themselves in a room when they're robbing a house for fear the owners might hear/see them and then shoot them? Come on, it's only common sense that when burglars rob houses they lock themselves in so as to make it more difficult to escape and easier to get caught if a home owner wakes up. Sheesh, that's Pistorius' next line of defense.Nothing about it being in south africa changes the fact that the door was not only closed, but actually locked.
It is all they have.Yes, that is what I am saying. Unless his lawyers are nuts they believe he can say "I shot someone through a locked door" and expect that to be a defense rather than a confession.
