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I know the door could be instrumental as to whether or not he had his legs on and at what point. I completely understand why that's relevant. If the door was compromised by police folly, though, it seems it would have been better to skip it entirely, in my puny opinion.
But today was a bunch of wrangling over whether or not Reeva might have had a chance to scream between the shots and I don't understand that at all. Even if you could definitively prove that there was sufficient time for her to have been able to get a scream up through the lungs and out the mouth, you can't prove that she would have done so even if she could have. Some people can't make a sound when they're terrified.
From what I read, they want to toss in the idea that she might have screamed between one of the non-lethal shots and the last one that hit her in the head to say that Oscar would have been able to hear her and stop, if he wanted to.
That's a pretty flimsy hook right there. It does nothing to impugn his story. If he was in fear of an intruder, fear enough to have been firing a gun in the general direction of said intruder, a yelp from behind the locked door, if even audible after the deafening blast of the gun in his hand might not be the splash of cold water sufficient to derail his terror. That's just silly.
To me, the fact that she'd eaten after he said they'd gone to sleep and that she'd locked the toilet door when she didn't need to pee is very relevant. Does anyone lock the toilet door in the middle of the night when it's only the love of their life with them in the entire apartment?
I've got bad feeling about how this is going.
But today was a bunch of wrangling over whether or not Reeva might have had a chance to scream between the shots and I don't understand that at all. Even if you could definitively prove that there was sufficient time for her to have been able to get a scream up through the lungs and out the mouth, you can't prove that she would have done so even if she could have. Some people can't make a sound when they're terrified.
From what I read, they want to toss in the idea that she might have screamed between one of the non-lethal shots and the last one that hit her in the head to say that Oscar would have been able to hear her and stop, if he wanted to.
That's a pretty flimsy hook right there. It does nothing to impugn his story. If he was in fear of an intruder, fear enough to have been firing a gun in the general direction of said intruder, a yelp from behind the locked door, if even audible after the deafening blast of the gun in his hand might not be the splash of cold water sufficient to derail his terror. That's just silly.
To me, the fact that she'd eaten after he said they'd gone to sleep and that she'd locked the toilet door when she didn't need to pee is very relevant. Does anyone lock the toilet door in the middle of the night when it's only the love of their life with them in the entire apartment?
I've got bad feeling about how this is going.
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