{"id":14154,"date":"2019-12-09T10:20:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=14154"},"modified":"2019-12-09T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:20:47","slug":"coffin-case-another-classic-example-of-injustice-by-a-judge-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/coffin-case-another-classic-example-of-injustice-by-a-judge-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffin case: Another classic example of injustice by a judge in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Loving Life&#8217; we see the infamous coffin case has seen the prison terms of two young men drastically shortened on appeal. A victory for common sense. The Appeals Court in Bloemfontein granted the so called \u2018coffin two\u2019, Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Jackson, leave to appeal their very harsh sentence and conviction.<\/p>\n<p>After the appeal their sentences were dramatically reduced after being sentenced for 16 and 11 years respectively but will now serve only 5 years. The two have already been in prison for two years. <\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xa9Eq0GvJD\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/south-africa-news\/free-state\/coffin-two-court-grants-leave-to-appeal-bloemfontein\/\">&#8216;Coffin case&#8217;, court grants leave to appeal , Bloemfontein<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;&#8216;Coffin case&#8217;, court grants leave to appeal , Bloemfontein&#8221; &#8212; South Africa Today\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/south-africa-news\/free-state\/coffin-two-court-grants-leave-to-appeal-bloemfontein\/embed\/#?secret=xa9Eq0GvJD\" data-secret=\"xa9Eq0GvJD\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Loving Life&#8217; we see the infamous coffin case has seen the prison terms of two young men drastically shortened on appeal. A victory for common sense. The Appeals Court in Bloemfontein granted the so called \u2018coffin two\u2019, Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Jackson, leave to appeal their very harsh sentence and conviction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[8610,853,1470,8607,5432,8608,3532,8609,1735],"class_list":["post-14154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-appeal","tag-bloemfontein","tag-bloemfontein-news","tag-coffin-case","tag-loving-life","tag-prison-terms","tag-sentence","tag-theo-jackson","tag-willem-oosthuizen"],"fifu_video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=175UY7i-mro","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}