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Topic: Police offer confused
testimony in Pistorius case |
Police offer confused
testimony in Pistorius case
Associated Press, by JON GAMBRELL and GERALD IMRAY
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Posted By:earlybird, 2/20/2013 12:48:02 PM
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| PRETORIA, South Africa – The detective leading the police investigation into Oscar Pistorius´ fatal shooting of his girlfriend offered confusing testimony Wednesday, at one point agreeing with the athlete´s defense that officers had no evidence challenging the runner´s claim he accidentally killed her. Testimony by Detective Warrant Officer Hilton Botha of the South African Police Service left prosecutors rubbing their temples, only able to look down at their notes as he misjudged distances and acknowledged a forensics team left in the toilet bowl one of the bullet slugs fired at Reeva Steenkamp.
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Comments:
"If the glove don´t fit, ....."
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Emerson, 2/20/2013 12:55:15 PM (No. 9186909)
Good grief! The prosecution is having a bad day. Stacking up errors right out of the gate. Not a good way to begin.
Prosecutor Nels fashioned a speculative scenario about what he believed hadhappened. Pistorius´s statement said something entirely different. Detective Botha says Pistorius´s statement was not inconsistent with the evidence. So Nels´s hypothesis didn´t fare too well.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Up2Here, 2/20/2013 1:26:31 PM (No. 9186969)
"If the shoe don´t fit...."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
crimea river, 2/20/2013 2:19:20 PM (No. 9187108)
Right on, #2. I posted a few days back that Pistorius´s only hope for a reduced sentence is shoddy police work. With the right attorneys they can make the trial about the police. The trial won´t be as dramatic as OJ´s, as there´s no racial angle and SA juries don´t like men who kill women - especially young good-looking ones.
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