they are different things

she's answering two different questions.

1) Is it reasonable (for anyone - an objective test) to fire 4 shots through a locked door at a random stranger? Yes/No answer.

2) Given Pistorious *did* shoot 4 times through that door, did he (personally - a subjective test) forsee that he was going to *kill* (a) Reeva or (b) an intruder.

I think you can clearly decide that shooting through a locked door is unreasonable (so he's guilty of something), but that Oscar himself personally didn't think he was shooting at Reeva (because he thought it was an intruder) *and* that he didn't think he was going to actually kill (rather than just injure or scare) someone.

All the judge has held is that randomly shooting through a locked door isn't muder in the eyes of SA law.

But it's still not a reasonable thing to be doing...

He's going down for culpable homicide unless he does a runner tonight.

Posted By: CWC on September 11th 2014 at 14:27:36

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A reasonable man bollocks. (General Chat) - harry boulders, Sep 11, 13:37:45
- Indeed. The judge appears to have contradicted herself a bit. (General Chat) - trafford_canary, Sep 11, 13:52:10
  - they are different things (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 11, 14:27:36
    - So, has the judge even addressed the key issue of Pistorius's defence? (General Chat) - norway, Sep 11, 15:13:13
      - in a way, yes she has (General Chat) - CWC, Sep 11, 18:03:11
      - Sorry *this* story... (General Chat) - norway, Sep 11, 15:13:42
  - And this is why adjourning to tomorrow is really, really unhelpful (General Chat) - norway, Sep 11, 13:59:06

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