Why ConCourt overturned student’s life sentence for stabbing two cops

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Why ConCourt overturned student’s life sentence for stabbing two cops
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Apex court rules that trial court ‘incorrectly formulated the test for putative private defence’

The Constitutional Court has found that the Pretoria high court incorrectly formulated the test for putative private defence when it convicted a Unisa law student of murder for stabbing two police officers he

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