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Team Boston Legal vs Team CSI
Crown Prosecutor vs Criminal Defense
[The State v. Oscar Pistorius]
Oscar Pistorius, a South African Paralympic sprinter, was recently sentenced to 5 years in Pretoria (High Court of South Africa) for shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp to death.
At the time of death, girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was in the bathroom on the toilet, with the bathroom door locked. Pistorius shot the gun four times at the locked bathroom door, hitting Reeva with three bullets. He claimed to have had suspected an intruder in the bathroom, and not his girlfriend.
Along with the charge of culpable homicide [first or second degree could not be determined] of his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius was also charged with reckless endangerment with a firearm for three years (a prison suspended sentencing), thus resulting in the total of five years in prison. An application to appeal the conviction will be heard by the
Court on December 9.
The Crown Prosecution (Team Boston Legal) must prove that the sentencing needs to be changed to make it harsher than five years in prison, whereas the Criminal Defense (Team CSI) must either argue that the sentencing is
c o r r e c t or that it should be reduced.
