If, on a charge of murder, an accused claims to have been mistaken as to whether he was under attack – that he thought the person he shot and killed (who it transpires was his girlfriend) was imminently about to attack him, the veracity of this claim would seem to be undermined by evidence that […]
Posts Tagged ‘evidence’
The Perplexing Problem of Proof*
Posted: 8th April 2014 by James Grant in UncategorizedTags: evidence, murder, Pistorius, proof beyond a reasonable doubt
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Evidence of ‘bad character’ and ‘prior bad acts’*
Posted: 5th March 2014 by James Grant in EducationTags: character evidence, criminal law, disposition, evidence, murder, Pistorius, prior bad acts, similar fact evidence
Many spectacular and sensational claims have been levelled at Oscar Pistorius in the media: that he has a bad temper, threated to break someone’s legs, is obsessed with firearms, fired a gun out of his sunroof, and another in a restaurant, was in illegal possession of ammunition and browsed pornographic websites on the night that […]