• Oscar Pistorius to be released after serving 10 months of 5 year prison sentence
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[QUOTE]Six days from now, Oscar Pistorius will once again be free to visit Johannesburg where, once, he fired a weapon at Tasha’s restaurant and asked a friend to take the blame. A month later, he fired another gun. This time only he could be blamed. After just 10 months in prison for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, Pistorius, the “blade runner” whose feats inspired a generation of athletes, will leave the small ward at the maximum security Kgosi Mampuru II prison on Friday. Once his period of virtual house arrest at his uncle’s mansion in the Pretoria suburb of Waterkloof is over, he should not expect a warm welcome in his old stomping ground. In the city yesterday, Thulani Nkosi, 28, a security guard, was standing in the car park of Melrose Arch, a shopping centre with shops, offices, hotels, apartments and restaurants (including Tasha’s). He was surprised to learn that Pistorius would soon be out of prison: “It seems that trial was just yesterday,” he said. “The money is talking. He must stay in jail. He must pay for what he did.” Pistorius’s release comes during “Women’s Month” in South Africa, with the issue of violence against women highlighted in civil society campaigns. While Pistorius has a devoted band of international supporters, many South Africans are anticipating the athlete’s release with dismay – and a certain measure of weariness given the intense media attention that was focussed on his trial last year. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/oscar-pistorius-to-be-freed-from-jail-next-week-amid-outcry-over-lenient-sentence-10456557.html[/url]
And on that day, not one damn person was surprised.
[QUOTE]Kelly Phelps, a criminal justice lecturer at the University of Cape Town, said that Pistorius’s release to correctional supervision was in line with standard criminal justice practice. Pistorius, having spent time in prison, was “sentenced on the harsher end of the spectrum” compared to similar cases of culpable homicide, in which a person was killed out of the mistaken belief they were an intruder.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Wiggles;48477966][quote]compared to similar cases of culpable homicide, in which a person was killed out of the mistaken belief they were an intruder.[/quote][/QUOTE] wasn't that like, the big part of his whole situation, that people believed the situation couldn't have been a case of mistaking her presence for an intruder, because neighbors heard them fighting just prior and she was on her phone in the bathroom or something
[quote]“The money is talking. He must stay in jail. He must pay for what he did.”[/quote] understatement of the decade.
[QUOTE=dai;48478161]wasn't that like, the big part of his whole situation, that people believed the situation couldn't have been a case of mistaking her presence for an intruder, because neighbors heard them fighting just prior and she was on her phone in the bathroom or something[/QUOTE] I was just pointing out the part where his release into house arrest is normal based on his current conviction. Whether or not that conviction was the correct one is (highly) disputable.
Ten months of five years? As if the five years wasn't too short enough. But only ten months?
Killing? C'mon dudes, that is ok. Pirating? GO TO JAIL
I stopped following on this case, was it murder or not? Because 5 years for murder sounds a bit dinky
[QUOTE=Zovox;48478524]I stopped following on this case, was it murder or not?[/QUOTE] Yes. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Oscar_Pistorius#Verdict[/url]
10 months for taking a life? That's nothing.
[QUOTE=Hugo Strange;48478541]10 months for taking a life? That's nothing.[/QUOTE] So was five years. He served ten months.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;48478530]Yes. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Oscar_Pistorius#Verdict[/url][/QUOTE] Culpable homicide is not murder.
roses are red violets are glorious don't surprise oscar pistorius
If he was deemed healthy and not a danger to society then I don't see an issue here.
[QUOTE=Uberpro;48478789]If he was deemed healthy and not a danger to society then I don't see an issue here.[/QUOTE] Yeah, why be punished for killing people ya'know? As long as you make money and aren't a danger to society once you've been told it's wrong all is forgiven you can skip the pathetic 5 year sentence you were given to begin with:hiddendowns:
[QUOTE=Uberpro;48478789]If he was deemed healthy and not a danger to society then I don't see an issue here.[/QUOTE] I agree but I wouldn't doubt money was involved in this, which kind of cheapens a statement like that.
[QUOTE=Uberpro;48478789]If he was deemed healthy and not a danger to society then I don't see an issue here.[/QUOTE] He had a domestic altercation and then murdered his girlfriend. I don't honestly believe that 10 months in prison are enough to make you fully grasp and regret what you did at that point. Maybe if it was manslaughter or something, but this is out right murder. Especially when he was only serving 5 years for murder to begin with. Edit: found it. South Africa holds a 15 year minimum sentence for serious offenses including murder, rape, robbery and serious economic crimes. This is outlined in the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1997. In fact, since 2007 when minimum sentencing was made permanent in South African law (it had previously been extended by presidential proclamation up until this point however), it is mandated that there is a minimum sentencing of 15 years for the first conviction of murder. Second and subsequent convictions are 20 and then 25 years respectively. You're telling me that serving less than a 15th of the [I]minimum sentence[/I] for a serious crime is somehow brought about without some sort of monetary exchange being made behind closed doors?
If he wasn't found guilty of murder why would anyone expect him to serve a murderer's sentence? Firing blindly through a door should be a crime, but can you prove intent to commit murder? Just firing through a door doesn't prove intent. There's a difference between what everyone believes happened and what can be proven to have happened.
[QUOTE=draugur;48480197]He had a domestic altercation and then murdered his girlfriend. I don't honestly believe that 10 months in prison are enough to make you fully grasp and regret what you did at that point. Maybe if it was manslaughter or something, but this is out right murder. Especially when he was only serving 5 years for murder to begin with. Edit: found it. South Africa holds a 15 year minimum sentence for serious offenses including murder, rape, robbery and serious economic crimes. This is outlined in the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1997. In fact, since 2007 when minimum sentencing was made permanent in South African law (it had previously been extended by presidential proclamation up until this point however), it is mandated that there is a minimum sentencing of 15 years for the first conviction of murder. Second and subsequent convictions are 20 and then 25 years respectively. You're telling me that serving less than a 15th of the [I]minimum sentence[/I] for a serious crime is somehow brought about without some sort of monetary exchange being made behind closed doors?[/QUOTE] You're blaming them for corruption and suggesting that he should've received the same sentence he'd get for murder, while he wasn't convicted of murder. That would be pretty.. corrupted, don't you think? [editline]17th August 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=draugur;48480197]You're telling me that serving less than a 15th of the [I]minimum sentence[/I] for a serious crime is somehow brought about without some sort of monetary exchange being made behind closed doors?[/QUOTE] Yes. Because he [b]was not convicted for one.[/b] This being said, after actually reading the article, (you should try this) he certainly might end up back in prison. Also, thanks for snipping the bits about comparing this to the US justice system. You're ahead of your time with those 500 year sentences.
Yeah, and why exactly is killing your girlfriend, [I]coincidentally[/I] after having a domestic altercation not murder again? Oh right, because he's famous and has money. I forget, my bad.
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