Oscar Pistorius kills his GF ?

[KootenayFlamesFan]

That's more than I thought he'd get, but still a joke.

[Senator Clay Davis]

It's not even 5 years, every legal expert opinion so far makes it seem like he'll only actually be in jail for 10 months and then he'll be paroled. So killing someone only gets you 10 months if you can display crazy, over the top histrionics in court.

[CaptainCrunch]

He'll never race competitively again, I'm sure his endorsements are gone. His legal fees are going to be astronomical.

At least he got something and he's a felon now.

[troutman]

Officials recommend Oscar Pistorius be released from prison in August for good behaviour

http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/...460/story.html

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by troutman

Officials recommend Oscar Pistorius be released from prison in August for good behaviour

http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/...460/story.html

[CaptainCrunch]

Disgusting to me that a human life has become so cheap.

He'll get out, get paid several million dollars to go on T.V. and tearfully proclaim his innocence. He'll eventually get to race again and sports fans will forget that this guy is an unbalanced murdering gun nut and he'll be named Time's man of the year.

money will always buy you freedom.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Gets 5 years, will probably only serve 10 months.

What a farce.

[Senator Clay Davis]

South Africa’s top appeals court ruled on Thursday that Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic star known as the Blade Runner, was guilty of murder in the 2013 killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, overturning a lower court’s conviction on the lesser charge of manslaughter.

Mr. Pistorius has already served about a year in prison and is now under house arrest for the previous conviction; a murder conviction carries a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.

The appeals court sided with state prosecutors on central points, saying that the manslaughter conviction, technically called culpable homicide, had been based on a misinterpretation of laws and an erroneous dismissal of circumstantial evidence.

The court said that Mr. Pistorius, who has said repeatedly that he accidentally killed his girlfriend when he believed his home had been broken into, should have foreseen that his actions would cause the death of a person.

Mr. Pistorius, 29, who has been under house arrest since October, is expected to remain at home pending a new sentence

Mr. Pistorius’s family said it had “taken note” of the ruling by the appeals court, the second-highest court in the country, but had not decided on its next steps.

“The legal team will study the finding, and we will be guided by them in terms of options going forward,” the family said in a statement.

Legal experts said Mr. Pistorius could try to take his case to the Constitutional Court, but it was unclear whether that court would regard it as a matter under its jurisdiction.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/wo...rius.html?_r=0

[CaptainCrunch]

Maybe there's hope that the system occasionally works.

[worth]

Sentenced to 6 years

https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...steenkamp-live