Article: Pistorius gets bail

[rpm]

You can view the page at http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/content.php/6274-Pistorius-gets-bail

 

[rpm]

Oscar Pistorius was granted bail in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Friday.

"... I come to the conclusion the accused has made a case to be released on bail," said Magistrate Desmond Nair.

 

[Kloofvreter]

In b4 Abzo

 

[v.j]

Wasn't expecting another verdict

 

[nakedpeanut]

Yip pretty much what I was expecting him to get. What is the bail amount? Anyone know?

 

[KalMaverick]

Possibly R250 000

 

[akescpt]

people get bail for cold blooded murder everyday here in south africa. usually for less than R1000.

 

[Azbubu]

Yip pretty much what I was expecting him to get. What is the bail amount? Anyone know?

R1mil

 

[Azbubu]

people get bail for cold blooded murder everyday here in south africa. usually for less than R1000.

Because those people usually don't have much more

 

[TheHiveMind]

Because those people usually don't have much more

They also don't have anything to lose, so they can just disappear

 

[Azbubu]

They also don't have anything to lose, so they can just disappear

Which is why they don't usually get bail at all. There are thousands of awaiting trial prisoners who have been waiting for years already.

 

[DJ...]

Bat, stumps, bail, dismissals. It's like a bloody cricket match, this...

 

[Creag]

Pistorius is granted bail

Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympic and Paralympic star who faces a murder charge over the shooting of his model girlfriend, was on Friday granted bail. In a detailed ruling that lasted two hours, Desmond Nair, the magistrate, said he could not find that it had been established that “the accused is a flight risk,” or had shown a propensity to commit violence, adding that there was no evidence he would interfere with witnesses. “This issue before me is whether the accused, being who he is and with the assets that he has in the country, would possibly … seek to duck and dive all over the world when, even by the state’s own concession he may at worse case scenario face capital homicide,” Mr Nair said at Pretoria Magistrate’s Court.

http://link.ft.com/r/VKY5JJ/4V4OG6/SUGEM/DWCCA5/UL70F5/PJ/h?a1=2013&a2=2&a3=22

Even made news on the Financial Times.

/sigh

 

[TheHiveMind]

Which is why they don't usually get bail at all. There are thousands of awaiting trial prisoners who have been waiting for years already.

That's another issue, the backlog is not acceptable.

Bat, stumps, bail, dismissals. It's like a bloody cricket match, this...

=O

 

[kosta]

Absolutely shocked and disgusted that he has been given bail! A schedule 6 offence, no exceptional circumstances why Pistorius should be released and he is given bail. WTF! Nair is not fit to be a judge!

 

[ponder]

That scene of a young forest gump making a run for it just popped into my head.

 

[kosta]

That scene of a young forest gump making a run for it just popped into my head.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Absolutely shocked and disgusted that he has been given bail! A schedule 6 offence, no exceptional circumstances why Pistorius should be released and he is given bail. WTF! Nair is not fit to be a judge!

I think it has been classified as schedule 5, not schedule 6.. this is why he got bail.

 

[Vohligh]

I think it has been classified as schedule 5, not schedule 6.. this is why he got bail.

Nair, has ruled that it be viewed as schedule 6...

 

[akescpt]

Absolutely shocked and disgusted that he has been given bail! A schedule 6 offence, no exceptional circumstances why Pistorius should be released and he is given bail. WTF! Nair is not fit to be a judge!

saw in the paper that dina, najwa, and that bees character all got bail for schedule 6 offences...