Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Factbox: Similar Facts, Different Conclusions in Death of Reeva Steenkamp - Yahoo! News

Factbox: Similar Facts, Different Conclusions in Death of Reeva Steenkamp - Yahoo! News

What is the prosecution version of events?

The prosecutor's version is that Steenkamp fled to the bathroom in fear, that Pistorius put on his prosthetic legs, marched to the toilet where Steenkamp was hiding, and fired the fatal shots through the door. The prosecutor's "premeditation" case is atypical, in that the only planning and deliberation involved occurred in the bedroom.

Pistorius allegedly decided to kill Steenkamp just before he "walk(ed) seven meters" across the bedroom with his gun, and fired into the small locked toilet room.

 "Why would a burglar lock himself into a toilet?" prosecutor Gerrie Nel was quoted as saying in the New York Times article.

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