Oscar Pistorius Removes Prosthetic Legs on Third Day of Sentencing Hearing

[WhiteTara]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/world/africa/oscar-pistorius-trial.html

LONDON — Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic runner who faces sentencing for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, removed his artificial legs and shuffled his way to the front of a courtroom in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday.

Trembling and tearful, he rested his right hand on a desk for support as his lawyers pleaded with a judge to sentence him to community service rather than prison.

Dressed in a T-shirt and athletic shorts, Mr. Pistorius, 29, is barely three and a half feet tall without the J-shaped carbon-fiber prosthetic legs that earned him the name the Blade Runner, an image far more humble than that of the world-class athlete who successfully challenged able-bodied athletes.

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Mr. Pistorius’s defense lawyers had asked him to take off his prosthetic legs to highlight the sense of vulnerability they say he felt when, acting out of fear and confusion, he fatally shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, early on Feb. 14, 2013.

[Happyhippychick]

1. What a disgusting display of bulls*t

Nobody is vulnerable when they are shooting an unarmed woman in a bathroom at 3am. She was the one that was vulnerable.