Oscar Pistorius, the Paraolympian charged with fatally shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day, said in a court hearing on Tuesday that he thought someone had broken into his South Africa home. He claims he mistook Steenkamp for a robber.
Jodi Arias, the woman accused of the brutal stabbing, shooting and killing of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, has resumed on Tuesday. Arias' first-degree murder trial has been postponed canceled since last Thursday when the presiding judge Sherry Stephens fell sick.
The first degree murder trial of Jodi Arias has been postponed until next Tuesday According to a courthouse spokesman, Arizona trial judge Sherry Stephens is recouperating from an illness, reported by The Huffington Post.
Facing a criminal charge of premeditated murder of his girlfriend, Paraolympian Oscar Pistorius wept in court on Friday. He could face a potential life in prison sentence. Pistorius' family and London-based management, however, issued a statement disputing the premeditated murder charge for killing Reeva Steenkamp.
Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, an up-and coming South African model who spoke out on social causes. In the predawn house on Valentine's Day, she was reportedly shot four times in Pistorius' home.
