I’m kind of conflicted. Part of me thinks he should go to jail for the minimum time of 15 years. I bet the prosecution will appeal.
Strikes me as very lenient. Then again, most sentences in much of the world look lenient from an American perspective.
Getting less than 1/2 the min is just another case of “celeb privilege” that is how he got off to begin with.
Really only 6 years? That wouldn’t seem like much for robbery much less murder?
And what’s the sign that he’s a good candidate for rehabilitation? Give him another domestic quarrel (ahem) and a gun, and the odds are he would do the same thing. (Pretty much all the rich people who commit murders and get light sentences have judges who argue they would never do it again. But those judges don’t explain why they think that.)
The only consistent part of this proceeding, from beginning to end, is that the Judge once again exhibited her ineptitude.
Seems reasonable if your country is too stupid to have capital punishment.
I’m kind of conflicted, too. I, too, think that the prosecution will appeal. It was particularly poor form on the defendant’s part to do a tv interview while saying he’s too distraught to give evidence at his own trial. I think the prosecutor would have loved to have had another go at Pistorious, and then I imagine the prosecutor hearing on the tv Pistorious saying, “Reeva wouldn’t want me to go to jail!”
But it seems even if the prosecution were to appeal and an appeal were to be granted, it’s doubtful that more than a few years would be added to his sentence as it seems the judge is loathe to sentence Pistorious to much time. I don’t know what to think. Except that I don’t want to think about Oscar Pistorious, anymore.