Pistorius Cleared Of Murder Charges!!!!

In other words, the judge examined whether it was reasonable for Pistorius to fire four shots through his bathroom door at what he believed was an intruder. Although she appeared to stop short of a ruling on the charge before adjourning court until Friday, she did say Pistorius did not pass this test.

“All the accused had to do was pick up phone and ring security,” Masipa said in court of Pistorius’s reaction. She added that Pistorius could  also have “run to balcony and called for help.” Masipa added that she was “not persuaded that a reasonable person with the accused’s disabilities would have fired four shots” into the home’s small bathroom. Pistorius is a double-amputee.

Pistorius killed Steenkamp about six months after he dazzled the world by running in the Olympics on carbon-fiber blades called “Flex-Foot Cheetahs.” He mastered the springy devices so completely competitors claimed he had an unfair advantage and tried to keep him confined to the Paralympics.  So skilled was Pistorius, and so disciplined in his training, that one scientist described him as “a pioneer on the posthuman frontier.”

But the South African double-amputee known as “Blade Runner” for his incredible sprints on the scythe-like prosthetics proved very human indeed.

Pistorius began to learn his fate on Thursday, as the judge read through her summary of the testimony of the key witnesses who appeared during 41 days of trial, and explaining what portions she accepts or rejects.