Der Prozess Oscar Pistorius und der Tod von Reeva Steenkamp

The experts only said he has no disorder. They never said he can not lose his temper or become angry. I guess it's more about the distinction between reasonable anger and unreasonable anger than saying he never gets angry.

Part of his defense is the flight/fight response to stress. In court he described emotions of fear and terror...a flight response. Which means he should have run away. This is what the flight response is. Emotions of fear make you run away.

The polar opposite of the flight response is the fight response. If he had a fight response he would have described feeling anger when he grabbed the gun and went after the intruder. Emotions of aggression make you fight.

The interesting thing is that OP consistently described emotions of flight and actions of fight. Very strange since these are polar opposites. You either feel one or the other, but never both at the same exact time. It is possible to feel flight and fight in the same experience, but not at the exact same time.

Anyway.

His defense is that he shot because he was afraid. First the defense tried to say there was a psychological basis for his fear...GAD. But since it was proven he had no psych problems at the time, they are now only saying that he was afraid because he's disabled and he is more vulnerable than normal people and so he is constantly awash in adrenaline and primed to shoot. An adrenaline junkie.

One problem with that is that adrenaline junkies go looking for trouble.

Of course all this must happen because he has to explain to the judge why he was so afraid. She has to be able to put herself in his shoes and ask herself if his explanation of his fear can be true.

A problem with this type of defense is that it can also be argued that because of his disability he had self esteem problems and so he was extra jealous and possessive of Reeva and so got into an argument, etc.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10694989&postcount=978

Apparently Webber Wentzel (big SA law firm) are bringing an urgent application against the judge's order banning publication of the psych reports, according to the SA Sunday times.


"OSCAR PISTORIUS DAY 36 UPDATE - Judge Masipa has ruled that no details of the two reports handed in to court following Pistorius's psychiatric observation may be reported on other than the brief findings read out in court. In a bizarre ruling, the judge has allowed all tweets and reports that happened before 15h05 today to remain, but any that are published after this will result in the publication and journalist being in contempt of court. We have heard that Webber Wentzel is planning to bring an urgent application to challenge this decision."

https://www.facebook.com/SundayTimesZA/posts/602296939887228

#OscarTrial all the parties are here. We might get going soon. Oscar has just called Arnold over for a chat. BB

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