Oscar predictions

[phrodeau]

Fifteen years in prison.

 

[Tryharder62]

I looked in my crystal ball and I predict that a lot of people will dress up in outlandishly expensive outfits and sit through really long and embarrassing speeches to get a little gold statue.

 

[kotori]

Acquittal. It's no crime to shoot up your own house if you think black fellas are using your toilet.

 

[Morcheeba]

I think it all boils down to whether or not her bladder was truly empty after getting shot to death.

Did she really lock herself inside the bathroom to eliminate her process or was she scared of her boyfriend and her bladder emptied itself upon 4 shots to the head.

 

[MsFilippovna]

Maybe he'll end up biting his own bullet, late one night.

 

[phrodeau]

The new charges won't stick, but killing his girlfriend will.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/16/us-safrica-pistorius-idUSBRE97F0W220130816

JOHANNESBURG | Fri Aug 16, 2013 2:17pm EDT
(Reuters) - Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius will face new charges of recklessly discharging a weapon in public when he appears in a South African court next week accused of murdering his girlfriend, local media reported on Friday.

They said he would face the new charges for allegedly discharging a weapon in a restaurant in January and from a car while driving home from a holiday. Both incidents are alleged to have happened before his girlfriend was killed.

 

[phrodeau]

With the murder case and the anniversary of his girlfriend's death looming, Oscar settled out of court over an older assault charge, to avoid overtaxing his legal team.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oscar-pistorius-settles-in-alleged-2009-assault-case/

 

[utopic]

As with so many other high profile cases, I think he'll get away with a slap on the wrist. Money talks, and I'm sure he owns the investigators. We'll see, hopefully i'm wrong.

 

[phrodeau]

His defense team isn't helping him much. First they claimed that Oscar can scream just like a woman. Now they're claiming that the security guard got the phone calls mixed up.

THe security guard got reports of gunshots, so he called Oscar. Oscar told him that everything was fine. He claims that Oscar called him back but was so distraught at the time that he couldn't speak.

So how does mixing up those two phone calls make any sense?

 

[koalabear]

I see you got good news today: Dalai Lama: Gay marriage OK

 

[phrodeau]

First Oscar vomited in the courtroom, now one of the judge's advisors is ill.

Trial postponed for ten days. Oscar was all ready to testify, but now he has to wait.

 

[Tryharder62]

Shees! I totally missed this one didn't I.

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/the-woman-who-will-decide-oscar-pistorius-fate-1.1764771#ixzz2yESnY5Jy

The woman who will decide Oscar Pistorius' fate
CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Monday, April 7, 2014 2:01PM EDT
Last Updated Monday, April 7, 2014 2:02PM EDT

While most of the attention during the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has been on the fallen sprinter himself or on Reeva Steenkamp, the model girlfriend he has admitted shooting, another player in the case has received considerably less attention: Judge Thokozile Masipa.

It is Masipa who will decide whether Pistorius will spend the next 25 years in prison for premeditated murder. And it is Masipa whom Pistorius has to try to convince that he's innocent.

For more than 40 years, all trials in South Africa have been heard by judge alone. That law was enacted in 1969 during the apartheid era, when it was often too difficult to find willing jurors not tainted by racism to sit through trials.

Masipa is only the second black woman ever appointed to the bench in South Africa and she has a reputation for tough rulings. The former social worker and crime reporter came to law late in life, graduating law school in her mid-40s. But just seven years later, she was appointed a judge of the High Court of South Africa.

Since then, she has made a number of headline-grabbing decisions, says TSN legal analyst Eric Macramalla.

"She comes down very hard in cases of violence against women, namely because outside of every war zone, South Africa has the highest rate of female deaths by gunshots," Macramalla told CTV News Channel Monday. "She is aware of this and she's experienced and she's seasoned."

In one case, Masipa sentenced a man named Shepherd Moyo to a 252-year sentence for raping three women during home robberies in Johannesburg. She told Moyo that what bothered her most was his lack of remorse and the effects his crimes had on the women.

"The worst in my view is that he attacked and raped the victims in the sanctity of their own homes where they thought they were safe," she said at the time.

In another case, Masipa handed a life sentence to a policeman, Freddy Mashamba, who shot and killed his former wife after an argument about their divorce.

"No one is above the law," Masipa told him. "You deserve to go to jail for life because you are not a protector. You are a killer."

 

[renard_ruse]

Acquittal. It's no crime to shoot up your own house if you think black fellas are using your toilet.

Wow, just wow. Second thread in the past hour I've read where someone tries to make it a racial issue.

So, its "ok" for someone to break into someone else's home in the middle of the night provided they are black and the homeowner is not?

 

[renard_ruse]

"She comes down very hard in cases of violence against women...

Wow again. So, now there is a special category of crimes called "violence against women"? I thought there was supposed to be equal protection of the law, not special laws for women.

This judge should be removed from the bench due to prejudicial beliefs. Shameful.

 

[Sean]

Wow, just wow. Second thread in the past hour I've read where someone tries to make it a racial issue.

So, its "ok" for someone to break into someone else's home in the middle of the night provided they are black and the homeowner is not?

Do you actually know anything about South Africa? Ever been there? Ever met any of them?

 

[phrodeau]

The trial isn't going well for Oscar at all. His star witness turned out to be a hack and a poser, and ended up contradicting him.

Back in two weeks.

 

[Mr_Jon_Thon]

I think Keanu Reeves will get Best Actor. He was robbed his last two nominations.

 

[phrodeau]

The defense has rested, and Oscar has hit the pubs. At least the floor of one.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-...ortedly-involved-in-nightclub-scuffle/5599192

A spokeswoman for Pistorius's family, Anneliese Burgess, said the argument started after Mr Mortimer started to "aggressively interrogate" Pistorius about the murder trial, which has attracted huge domestic and international attention.

"An argument ensued during which [Pistorius] asked to be left alone. Oscar left soon thereafter," she said.

"Our client regrets the decision to go into a public place and thereby invite unwelcome attention."

Mr Mortimer told The Star a friend introduced him to Pistorius, who then launched into a tirade, telling him how he had been "screwed over" by Mr Mortimer's friends.

"We were drinking tequila and I still remember putting down my drink and thinking I couldn't drink it while my friends were being spoken of like that," he said.

Mr Mortimer said at some point the sprinter, known as the Blade Runner, got aggressive and started poking him in the chest.

"He was close to my face and at that point I pushed him to get him away from me," he said.

"A chair was behind his legs and he fell to the ground."

The curtains of the VIP area of the club in Sandton, a wealthy suburb north of Johannesburg, were drawn so that nobody could see Pistorius was there.

"A little bit later he had a confrontation with another man and the bouncers were asked to please remove him because he was causing trouble," Mr Mortimer said.

Another patron who saw Pistorius at the club told the daily that the athlete was "flat-out drunk".

 

[phrodeau]

Today he is not guilty of murder. What will he be tomorrow?

 

[JudasIscariot]

I think he'll be cleared across the board.

 

[Pairaclities]

I think he'll be cleared across the board.

I think he will be guilty of some form of manslaughter, convicted to 5 years in prison, then the sentence suspended to allow him to continue his career representing SA in international competitions and events.

 

[phrodeau]

Today he is guilty of culpable homicide, or manslaughter, and of discharging a firearm in public (see post #6).

 

[JudasIscariot]

Today he is guilty of culpable homicide, or manslaughter, and of discharging a firearm in public (see post #6).

Looking at your first post you were pretty much bang on.

What's your prediction for tonight's euromillions?

 

[phrodeau]

Looking at your first post you were pretty much bang on.

What's your prediction for tonight's euromillions?