#JudgementDay: Oscar Pistorius Cannot Be Found Guilty Of Intentionally Killing His Girlfriend

Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) - Oscar Pistorius cannot be found guilty of intentionally killing Reevan Steenkamp, the judge in his trial said Thursday. The judge has not issued a verdict, and the proceedings continue. Pistorius faces other possible verdicts, including culpable homicide.

Under South African law, Pistorius will not be found guilty of "murder."

Pistorius could not have foreseen that the person he was shooting at, who was behind the bathroom door, would die, and therefore the state has not proven an intent to kill, Judge Thokozile Masipa said.

She also said evidence suggests that Pistorius genuinely believed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was still in the bedroom, and that the person in the bathroom was an intruder, although that is irrelevant to the case, she said.

Before she rejected the premeditated murder charge, Judge Thokozile Masipa questioned why he fired "not one ... but four shots" into the bathroom before he went to find his girlfriend.

However, she said, the intention to shoot does not necessarily mean the intent to kill. "Court is satisfied that at the relevant time, the accused could distinguish between right and wrong" and act accordingly, she said.

Shortly before, Masipa cast doubt on witness testimony, and said she believes media coverage contaminated testimonies. She doubted state witnesses, saying they were in and out of sleep the night of the killing on Valentine's Day last year. "Technology is more reliable than human perception and human memory," she said.

She described the victim's wound as "immediately incapacitating," and said she believed a scream heard by witnesses the night of the killing was Pistorius,' not Steenkamp's.

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