Oscar Pistorius Granted Bail Ahead of Sentencing
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| Oscar Pistorious and late girlfriend- Reeva Steenkamp |
A South African court on Tuesday granted bail to Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic star known as the Blade Runner, pending his sentencing for the killing of his girlfriend.
South Africa’s top appeals court last week found Mr. Pistorius guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, 29, a model and law school graduate, on Valentine’s Day in 2013. The decision overturned a lesser conviction of manslaughter, known technically as culpable homicide, that had been handed down by a lower court.
Under
the terms of the bail, Mr. Pistorius, 29, a double-amputee athlete
whose nickname was derived from the prosthetic devices that allowed him
to run, will remain under house arrest while he awaits sentencing at a hearing scheduled for April 18.
Bail
for Mr. Pistorius was set at 10,000 rand, or about $692. He will be
electronically tagged and he will only be allowed to leave his uncle’s
home in Pretoria, South Africa, where he has been staying, between 7
a.m. and noon.
Under
other conditions of the bail, Mr. Pistorius will not be allowed to
travel more than 20 kilometers, or about 12 miles, from his uncle’s
home, and he must turn in his passport.
Barry
Roux, the head of Mr. Pistorius’s legal team, said on Tuesday that his
client planned to appeal the murder conviction by taking his case to the
Constitutional Court of South Africa, the country’s highest court.
Prosecutors
had argued that Mr. Pistorius was a flight risk and had asked that the
terms of his bail to be more restrictive, to reflect the seriousness of
the crime.
Mr. Pistorius was found guilty of murder after the appeals court concluded last week that Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa, who had convicted him of manslaughter and acquitted him of the more serious charge, had misinterpreted the law.
The appeals court ruled that Mr. Pistorius should have known that his
actions would prove deadly when he fired four shots through a locked
bathroom door.
Although
the defense during his trial had sought to portray Mr. Pistorius as a
vulnerable man trying to protect himself and Ms. Steenkamp, prosecutors
sought to characterize him as a gun-loving and irresponsible playboy who
had shot his girlfriend in a violent rage.
New York Times
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