Oscar predictions

[phrodeau]

Sentenced to five years for killing Reeva Steenkamp.

For firing a gun in a restaurant, three years suspended for five years, unless he does it again.

 

[Aphro]

But they are saying he probably will only serve 10 months, with the remainder on house arrest.

 

[toubab]

If he had been an ordinary South African he would have been thrown under the jail, most likely. This thing about cutting athletes and celebrities slack isn't only an American thing, obviously.

 

[Brollyanna]

We'll see if that sentence is enough to deter him the next time he wants to kill a girlfriend.

 

[Tryharder62]

Looks like 5 years in prison - which will have him out they say in 10 months serving the rest of sentence on house arrest.

 

[phrodeau]

Ten months later, they're moving him out.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/10/15/pistorius-reportedly-to-be-released-from-prison/

 

[Kitty]

Oh. I thought this was a thread about The Oscars.

 

[phrodeau]

Appeals court upped his conviction from manslaughter (culpable homicide) to murder. He'll be receiving a new sentence.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/12/03/safrica-pistorius-judgement-idINKBN0TM0SG20151203

 

[warrior queen]

Appeals court upped his conviction from manslaughter (culpable homicide) to murder. He'll be receiving a new sentence.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/12/03/safrica-pistorius-judgement-idINKBN0TM0SG20151203

Of course, he will appeal the new ruling.
This will drag on for years.....

 

[phrodeau]

Ten quotes from today's sentencing proceedings.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

I predict I wont watch...

 

[phrodeau]

I predict he won't be seen in Rio.

 

[phrodeau]

Six years, and further appeals unlikely.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36727551

 

[phrodeau]

Fifteen years in prison.

http://abcnews.go.com/International...der-sentence-doubled-ruling/story?id=51358048

Paralympic athlete and convicted killer Oscar Pistorius will spend the next 13 years and five months behind bars after the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) lengthened his jail sentence from six years to the maximum penalty.

The SCA ordered that Pistorius receive the maximum possible sentence in this case of 15 years, however, it did take into account the time Pistorius has already served.

 

[nowisthetime]

Oh, i thought you were talking about the Oscars. People still watch that rigged crap?


I don't care about this case. It's only a high profile case because he's a top athlete.

Bet you if you reversed the situation, where she shot him, she would have been walking.


Wow, what weird laws in that country, didn't know they could reverse a sentence. Obviously someone got mad.

 

[phrodeau]

Now eligible for parole, but denied.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/31/africa/oscar-pistorius-parole-opposed-intl/index.html