Tears, Texts and 'Tough' Times: The Oscar Pistorius Trial Marches On

Oscar Pistorius is selling the home where he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the wee hours of Valentine's Day 2013. He'll use that money — the house is expected to fetch nearly $500,000 — to pay the superstar legal team hired to defend him from charges of premeditated murder in Steenkamp's death

Pistorius' legal team will start to really earn its keep this Friday, when it begins formally presenting the disgraced track star's defense case to High Court of South Africa Judge Thokozile Masipa. The goal: Convincing her (South Africa has no jury trials) that Pistorius shot Steenkamp to death through a bathroom door in a tragic accident after mistaking here for for an invading criminal Read more...

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