nope, i won't see any except news .. this from the first story at the link below ..
--- Defence lawyer Barry Roux later asked Burger whether she may in fact have heard the shouts of a desperate man and suggested that Pistorius may sound like a woman when he is anxious. The witness insisted she heard two people, a man and a woman, and four gunshots, but said she never heard the sound of a cricket bat striking a door. Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/oscar-pistorius/53387/oscar-pistorius-murder-case-story-so-far#ixzz2uy7LIN36 ---
is the closest i've come to Roux so far, thanks for that info .. yup, there is talk of money negotiation ..
i don't know if that would/could have any influence on the trial .. wouldn't think so, but it doesn't say .. am with you on the cynicism angle, it's hard to throw that aside especially in these hig profile cases, but to be fair to those involved i'm gonna try to be open minded on this one .. this bit is from the third story down now, in the same place as the top one above .. can't seem to get a link for separate stories ..
--- Oscar Pistorius: South Africa’s legal stars prepare for battle - 2 March
THE international media will descend on Pretoria tomorrow for the first day of Oscar Pistorius’s trial for the alleged murder of Reeva Steenkamp. While all eyes will be on the world-famous Paralympian, it will be South Africa’s legal heavyweights who will ultimately battle it out on the court floor...
Pistorius' defence: Barry Roux
In the Pistorius camp the key figure is defence lawyer Barry Roux, a man The Guardian describes as a tough-talking “legal gun for hire”. Roux is a senior counsel – the South African equivalent of a QC – and made a strong impression at pre-trial hearings by reducing a senior police detective, Hilton Botha, to a “stuttering wreck”.
“This is like watching a baby seal getting clubbed,” tweeted a South African journalist as Roux’s brutal cross-examination of Botha gathered pace. The police officer was subsequently removed from the case when it was discovered he was facing seven counts of attempted murder himself. Roux was called to the bar in 1982 and now earns around 50,000R (about £3,200) a day for criminal work. He’s not as “slick or dapper” as Johnnie Cochran, the flamboyant lawyer who got OJ Simpson acquitted of murder, says the New York Post. But “he’s twice as relentless.”
Prosecution: Gerrie Nel
The man hoping to put Pistorius behind bars for the premeditated murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp is equally redoubtable. State prosecutor Gerrie Nel is no stranger to big cases, having successfully jailed South Africa’s police chief Jackie Selebi on corruption charges in 2010. During the investigation of Selebi, Nel was woken by 20 police officers who arrested him and his wife in front of their children on “trumped-up fraud charges”, the Post says. The charges were later dismissed and Selebi was handed a 15-year jail term.
Top detective: Vinesh Moonoo
The shortcomings of the police investigation carried out in the immediate aftermath of the 14 February shooting were brutally exposed by Roux at the pre-trial hearings. But Hilton Botha’s replacement, detective Vinesh Moonoo, has a reputation as the “top gumshoe” in the South African police force. He has built a case using psychologists as well as forensic, ballistics and technology experts. The 53-year-old has a blemish-free reputation and has mostly succeeded in staying off the media radar. In one rare interview he admitted that he knew when he was a schoolboy that he wanted to become a police officer. He has since become the “top detective in the SA Police Service” according to the force’s commissioner Riah Phiyega.
Judge: Thokozile Masipa
Johannesburg High Court judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa has been assigned to the Pistorius trial. A former journalist, social worker and advocate, Masipa became the country’s second black female judge in 1998, after former Constitutional Court judge Yvonne Mokgoro, and has presided over several high-profile criminal trials. She has spoken out strongly about violence against women and has made it clear that no one is above the law. She last year sentenced notorious house robber and rapist Shepherd Moyo to 252 years in prison, reports South Africa’s Times newspaper. In 2001, she sentenced two rapists to life imprisonment, warning that violence against women and children, especially rape, were increasing at an alarming and unprecedented rate. She also made headlines when she sentenced a policeman to life imprisonment in 2009 after he shot dead his former wife. She told him: “No one is above the law. You deserve to go to jail for life because you are not a protector. You are a killer.” .. Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/oscar-pistorius/53387/oscar-pistorius-murder-case-story-so-far#ixzz2uy5uzFlA
lol .. if he's found innocent i think i'll have a cynicism rush ..
It's a slideshow. I didn't know one of the four bullets was found in the hallway, it's lousy that still many reports say the four were through the toiled door.
When will we learn the angle of the shots through the toilet door? That's key to Pistorius' story.
Would any neighbor say they heard a loud argument for an hour before the shots if it was quiet as Pistorius said? I can't think of any reason why a neighbor would make that story up.
Oscar Pistorius and Thato Kutumela: a tale of two murder trials
Lisa Davies Date March 8, 2014 5 reading now
Cases being heard in Pretoria courtrooms are from different sides of the tracks, yet the alleged crimes are the same.
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While there are extremely low reporting rates, it has been estimated half a million women are raped each year – one every 17 seconds – and half of all the nation’s women will be raped sometime in their lifetime.
"AND her family LOVES him ... I'm sure there may be some money somewhere .. but maybe not ...and I'm extremely cynical in these types of cases situations or whatever"
Oscar Pistorius verdict questioned by South African legal experts
Lawyers are particularly uneasy over the decision on 'dolus eventualis' murder, arguing that Pistorius could have known it was likely the person he shot would be killed
Owen Bowcott theguardian.com, Friday 12 September 2014 10.20 EDT
A newspaper headline after Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide, 12 September 2014. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
In the immediate wake of the culpable homicide verdict, South African lawyers have questioned whether the judge in the Oscar Pistorius .. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/oscar-pistorius .. case erred in clearing the Olympic athlete of murder.
As state prosecutors announced they were considering appealing judge Thokozile Masipa's decision, legal experts suggested she may have focused too closely on the relationship between Reeva Steenkamp and Pistorius.
Had there been an intruder behind the toilet door, as Pistorius told the court he believed, then firing four shots into such a confined space would probably have been considered murder by other courts, some lawyers argued.
Emma Sadleir, an expert on social media law who has been monitoring responses to the verdict, told the Guardian that many South African lawyers were uneasy with the decision on common law murder – what is known in the country's laws as dolus eventualis murder.
"The legal fraternity are concerned that the test for dolus eventualis may been applied incorrectly," Sadleir said. "The judge seems to have concentrated on the question of whether it was Reeva.
"But even if he thought there was an intruder behind the door, lawyers are saying, it would still mean that the action was murder. There's a lot of chatter that this is a highly unusual case in which the prosecution will appeal on a point of law under section 310 of the criminal procedure act."
Sadleir said legal opinion supported the judge's reasoning that there was insufficient evidence of the couple having had a row or fallen out with one another and therefore no evidence of premeditated murder.
But, she added: "Even according to Pistorius' version there was a person behind the door. It was a tiny cubicle, less than 1.5 by 1.5 metres, to have fired into."
Sadleir said there was precedence in a recent case where a South African rapper, Jub Jub .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/21/south-africa-jub-jub-riot .. was found guilty of murder after racing a Mini Cooper through the streets of Soweto and ploughing into a crowd of schoolchildren, killing four of them.
"The judge in that case said that he should have foreseen the possibility of the deaths and returned a verdict of murder." In the Pistorius case, she said, the likelihood of death resulting from opening fire in such a confined space was far greater.
Dr David Klatzow, a leading South African forensic scientist, also believed the judge had not got it right. "It was irrelevant whether it was Reeva or anybody else behind that door," he explained. "There is a provision in South African law that [self-defence] force must be proportional to the threat and reasonable.
"If I shot someone who is punching my wife that would be unreasonable. Your life and that of anyone else has to be in immediate, mortal danger. I'm not sure that it was ever shown [that he was] in immediate mortal danger. [Such a claim] could be measured against his veracity in the witness box, which did him no favours.
"Everyone here owns a firearm and they have to undergo a written examination in which this is one of the issues. Anybody who fires a 9mm pistol will know about the lethal nature of those bullets. I'm surprised the judge found him not guilty of murder."
Pistorius introduced racism in the case when he argued that every white person in S Africa was scared enough to have gun by bed. After the shooting Pistorius called friends before calling the police. Just after the shooting Pistorius reportedly told a security guard all was fine. Some say the S African justice system is unreliable and that much police investigation and prosecution is inept. On the last one, remember an OJ Simpson lawyer said 'we didn't win the verdict, we helped the prosecution lose.' One example he gave was that the prosecution could have had Simpson try on the glove in private first, yet they had him try it on in front of the jury.
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