Evidentiary argument?

[cee-dee]

We've all seen the recent cases where celebrities have been in Court charged with a variety of offences going back many years and one of the things said by the accusers and Prosecution is that "so many people couldn't have got it wrong"?

Now we see in the Pistorius trial in SA completely the opposite.:-

The judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial has questioned the reliability of several witnesses in court, as she delivers her verdict on the athlete.

Judge Thokozile Masipa said humans were fallible, and may not have heard gunshots or screaming as they thought.

OK, it's different countries and different circumstances and whatever the truth of the matter, it just goes to show that the most unreliable evidence is that of "eye" witnesses and what they say.

[cee-dee]

Reading the report you provided, I'm not surprised he was charged with murder.

The burglar had got out of the house and the bloke pursued him stabbing him repeatedly in the back. That was clearly not self-defence.

[upthecreekyetagain]

The jury still found him not guilty of murder though!

I wonder if it had been an intruder in the toilet that was killed whether or not there would have been so many calls for OP to have been found guilty of murder - it is not the first time that someone has been mistaken for an intruder in South Africa and 'accidentally' killed, either the intruder or an innocent party.  In all the cases I can find the accused has only ever been found guilty of culpable homicide, (manslaughter).