South
African sprint runner, Oscar Pistorius (29), has been found guilty
of murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp by the Supreme Court in
South Africa today ( Thursday, December 3, 2015).
Pistorius,
who shot Reeva four times through a locked door in February 2013, may
be sentenced to 15 years in jail by a panel of judges in the South
Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal.
One
of judges, Justice Lorimer Leach while reading the ruling said that
having armed himself with a high calibre weapon, Pistorius must have
foreseen that whoever was behind the door might die.
They
also faulted the ruling of the lower court for not applying correctly
the rule of dolus eventualis (this is when the perpetrator objectively
foresees the possibility of his act causing death and persists
regardless of the consequences, suffices to find someone guilty of
murder).
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