Paralympian Oscar Pistorius files an application to overturn murder conviction
- Jan 12, 2016
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The National Prosecuting Authority has confirmed that Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has filed an application to have the Supreme Court of Appeal’s decision to convict him of murder overturned.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court is the highest court in the land, and is the last resort for the Paralympian to stay out of jail for the 2013 killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius has been out on bail and living at his uncle’s Waterkloof, Pretoria mansion since late last year when the Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal overturned his earlier conviction of culpable homicide.
In South Africa, the minimum sentence for murder carries a much heavier sentence than that of culpable homicide.
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