The high profile Oscar Pistorius trial has been one many have been keeping close attention to, Pistorius being one of South Africa's most decorated athletes and the only Paralympic to ever run in the Olympics, 2012 was a great year for Pistorius, winning gold in London but the worst came in the following year when Pistorius jailed for murdering his wife Reeva Steenkamp, and now we are witnessing South Africa's first ever broadcasted trial. We'd gotten to day 6 when state called upon Prof.Saayman for the autopsy report and for the first time all broadcast of the trial was halted, and the Judge ruled for the court order given by state to stop all recordings of the autopsy, to which we saw the media lawyers trying also in court to fight for this to be atleast recorded via audio but the judge remained to her word and demanded that nothing may be reported live, thus stopping people from posting live updates on twitter and blogs but they were allowed to summarise after Saayman had finished. In my opinion, in the era we are in where everything is broadcasted on any social networking site or any platform, I think it would have been interesting to hear the autopsy report giving audiences worldwide a wider verdict personally on Pistorius guilty or not.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/apple-refuses-unlock-dead-womans-3214436
Apple refuses to unlock dead woman's iPad, despite grieving sons' pleas
The giant institution of Apple have come into some scrutiny due to not unlocking a dead woman's ipad. With the will of the woman being divided between her two sons, they decided to keep the ipad between each other and realised there mother hadn't given them the password, they then factory reseted it and after this didn't work, they went to Apple who said they need a letter from there Mother, they said she was dead so Apple said they needed to see the death certificate, when the two boys went with the death certificate, Apple then said they need a court order in favour of them to actually unlock the ipad, to which we saw comments about the young men being ridiculed for not just going to a normal phone unlocking shop. In my opinion, Apple should have unlocked the ipad after the death certificate and will was shown, surely it must have been awkward for the shop assistant to refuse to unlock a ipad even after seeing a death certificate.
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