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Oscar Pistorius's Facebook 'angels' are sharing songs, poems and prayers in the lead up to his parole hearing on Friday, 31 March...

The other question is shooting the bathroom door four times was unreasonable under the circumstances. you have to analyze the case as somebody who has prosthetics, somebody on his stumps, literally on his stumps, at the time this happened so you have to go into subjective beliefs and recognize whether or not thats reasonable. theres nothing to dispute the fact that it was not reasonable at the time and therefore, i think the homicide case will not be met. houfrp, again, as i said, i think he wil...

Had food in her stomach consumed at about 1:00 a.m., two hours, approximately, before the fatal shooting. pit approximatity defense team has always insisted that the couple were asleep by that time. the professor also said pistorius used a particular type of ammunition in his gun which expands like a mushroom or a flower when hitting human tissue and designed to cause significant injury. she was hit three times in the bullets. when the testimony was brought to a close, pistorius family rushed to...

Puzzling to me after 30 years of investigations, ive never seen a case where we didnt know where the aircraft was and so its either over water or either land and weve got two bodies of water that were looking at as well as the terrain of vietnam as far as i know. jon: a lot of people just assume an airliner flying over the ocean is in constant touch with, you know, satellites or people back on land or whatever. thats not necessarily the case, is it? >> it isnt necessarily the case and it wasnt h...

Type of system as we do in the u.s. except for the jury. in that case, in the pistorius case, you have a judge listening to all the facts but the burden is on the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt which is a high level of certainty. allegations of suspicion will not be enough to convict oscar pistorius. at this point, lacking a motive, lacking any kind of reason why oscar pistorius would want to kill her, i dont see it being a homicide case. perhaps negligence of some kind but not h...

Physical -- >> i love your question. if he had a jury, then i would say maybe he was performing for the jury but since this is just the judge, im of the opinion that this was a genuine emotional reaction to hearing that testimony. lets not forget, you know, when the investigator showed up at his house, he was kind of having the same emotion. he was crying, leaning over the victim, trying to revive her so this isnt a stretch. i think hes an emotional guy and it almost -- if the judge believes thi...

Off the road or tried to stop the bus. the police officers fired shots at the bus. the charges were dropped and subsequently reinstated. what gets tricky is this was reconfirmed yesterday afternoon. the prosecution service says the position was taken between february 4th and 10th to reinstate the charges. that would have been before reeva steenkamp was killed. there are questions about the timing of all of this. oscar pistorius back in the courtroom today due to the drama of the tame presidented...

First". >> overnight a dramatic new twist i am merging from the oscar pistorius case. the lead detective in the case is facing murder charges himself over a 2011 shooting. >> in the meantime today we could find out if the olympian charged with murder of his girlfriend could be charged with bail. >> amy kellogg has the details. what a big surprise to come in overnight. good morning. >> good morning heather and heather. it is not clear whether this is called a twist or a major side show in the osc...

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