MANDY WIENER: The court of public opinion vs the court of law

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OPINION: With both AKA and Reeva Steenkamp's deaths, it was a dangerous game of the court of public opinion vs the court of law, writes MandyWiener

This week marks 10 years since Reeva Steenkamp was killed on Valentine’s Day by a bullet fired by her boyfriend, para-athlete Oscar Pistorius.

Speculation then escalated with rumours that Forbes’s friend and associate, Don Design, who had spent the evening with him, must have been in on the hit. The armchair social media experts concluded that he was gesticulating at the assassin while standing on the pavement, giving them a sign. We saw it with how social media experts reacted to the Netflix documentary on the murder of Bafana Bafana captain, Senzo Meyiwa. Every interview and detail was scrutinised. It undoubtedly had an impact on the witness testimony in the Meyiwa trial. Witnesses were hounded by journalists and their versions of events were contradicted.The court of law has set parameters: it looks at facts, evidence and expert testimony. Witnesses undergo cross-examination by trained professionals.

But that was not the finding of the court of law. It found that Pistorius knew that someone was behind the door – but not necessarily Steenkamp.

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