The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius by Willock, Brent -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius

Contents Praise for this Book from Leading Authorities in the Scientific and Forensic Fields

Dedicated to Acknowledgements

PART I Inauspicious Beginnings, Glorious Middle, and Then …

Who Is Oscar Pistorius?

From Womb to World Stage

The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre Trial and Judgement

However

PART II Essential Background Concepts

Mayhem in Durham The (Relatively) New Science of Sleep

Somnambulism

Somnambulistic Killing The Stuff of Which Dreams and Derangement Are Made

Shame Scratching the Itch to Kill Durham Derailment

Durham Dissent

Reconciling Contradictions Post Acquittal

Dreams and Parasomnia

What Is This Thing Called Parasomnia?

PART III Radical Scientific Re-View of Oscar’s Crime and Conviction

Perjury in Pretoria?

Pictures Do Not Lie …or Do They?

The Bail Magistrate’s and the Judge’s Profound Puzzlement

Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa’s Four Questions

Key to the Locked Door Sounds Shattering Silence Bad Witnessing Magical Mystery Tour

Oscar’s Childhood Edgar From Edgar to Oscar Lovers in Loos Sexsomnia

Socializing Babies, Boys, and Men Why Did Oscar’s Defense Not Raise the Dreaming and Parasomnia Possibility?

The Long Winding Road That Leads to Understanding Insufficient Knowledge of Parasomnia in the Legal and Mental Health Professions Attention Blindness Automatism

Surely Everyone Knows Whether They Are Asleep or Awake

Poolside Parasomnia?

A Plentitude of Parasomnias Sentencing Oscar Once, Twice, Three, …

The State’s Appeal The Defense’s Appeal Different Worlds of Justice Second Sentencing Reactions to Oscar’s Second Sentence Behind Bars Again A Second Prosecution Appeal? The State’s Second Appeal Third Sentencing Continuing Appeal

Closing Argument

A Plea for the Courts to Consider a Scientific Perspective Reconciliation

About the Author References