Posted on 09/10/2014 11:24:32 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - After 41 days of tears, anguish and at times gruesome testimony in the Pretoria High Court, Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who became one of the biggest names in athletics, will learn this week whether he will spend the next 25 years behind bars.
In a fitting reminder of how South Africa has changed in the 20 years since apartheid, the fate of Pistorius, a wealthy white man from privileged roots, rests in the hands of a 66-year-old black woman from Soweto, Judge Thokozile Masipa.
Throughout the on-off six-month trial, Masipa - only the second black woman to rise to the bench in South Africa - has remained calm and impassive, seemingly impervious to the global interest in a case that has drawn comparisons to the 1995 murder trial of American football star OJ Simpson in California.
For Pistorius, the options when Masipa starts delivering her judgement on Thursday, winding up probably on Friday, are stark.
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OMG, judge saying witnesses were groggy from sleep and listened to the media. They were all wrong.
Pistorius is gonna walk!!!
Ooops... sorry... wrong thread...
People believe the darndest things these days, so they say.
-PJ
A murderer with no legs to stand on walks out of corrupt courtroom in a corrupt country.
Thanks B.Slippers. Let me have a look - see.
From FOX news,
“NOT Guilty.”
Not guilty only on the premeditated charges so far. More to come.
I knew something was messed up the minute I heard this judge let him out on bail for over a year.
Who does that in a MURDER case?
Judge is just as much a psycho as the killer she let free today!
And it’s even more perverse that this judge took over a month to “deliberate” just so she could release this MURDERER on America’s darkest day!
Cool your jets Dave, he was not set free.
The judge said that Oscar Pistorius acted too hastily and used excessive force when he fatally shot his girlfriend. The verdicts not in yet.
I didn’t know until today that most European nations limit a life sentence for murder to 25 years.
And we already know Europeans are screwed up.
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