It is certainly extremely unfortunate that the state attorney could not remove the last tiny fractions of doubt.
Due to these last fractions of doubt, the verdict is unfortunately correct in so far as Pistorius did not get convicted for murder. He should have, however, been convicted for homicide.
I can not possibly follow the judge's reasoning for negligent homicide or involuntary manslaughter.
OP shot four times through a closed door at an angle where he must have known that if anyone was behind that door, that person would suffer fatal injuries, also due to the Black Talon ammo.
That's the very definition of dolus eventualis if I've ever seen one. Not sure what the judge was smoking when she ruled that Pistorius was not at least accepting the possibility of fatal injuries.
With that said, Pistorius' version is bullshit to anyone with any common sense. So he got up in the middle of the night to move some fans from the balcony to the inside of his apartment. OK.
Next he hears some noise in the bathroom and thinks it's a burglar. So he goes inside, grabs the gun from his side of the bed (which is closer to the balcony) and then with what must have been complete tunnel vision moves past his sleeping partner into the hallway, into the bathroom and then shoots four times through the closed toilet door.
Right.
How come he did not notice that Reeva's side of the bed was empty when he retrieved his gun and had to actually move past her to get to the hallway?
Why was Reeva Steenkamp found half-dressed in the toilet? Did she always get dressed up when she went to the toilet at night? And why did she have her cell phone with her?
Why didn't Pistorius push a panic button or call the police? Why didn't he first check on and gently wake up Reeva to make
her call the police while he went to secure the hallway with his gun?
Why did ear witnesses hear a woman and a man screaming? Because Oscar sounds like a girl when he's upset? Riiiiiiiiiight.
The defense made up all sorts of bullshit reasons to explain stuff like that and unfortunately the attorney could not prove them 100% wrong, only 99.99…..%.
Oh well, the only comforting thought for me is that Pistorius is the kind of person who might have gotten away this time but there will be another time when he's not so lucky and the state attorney will be able to nail him.
Given his unstable character, it shouldn't take too long before he is provoked again or
feels provoked again and does something stupid enough to really get him behind bars for a long time.
I mean
he didn't even manage to control himself for the duration of the trial, fully knowing that he was under extreme public scrutiny so, excluding possible jail time, I'm giving it only a couple of years before he "does it again". Or maybe he kills someone in jail. We'll see. Trouble is preprogrammed with this joker.
