{"id":16591,"date":"2014-10-27T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16591"},"modified":"2014-10-27T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T13:49:38","slug":"state-to-appeal-oscar-pistorius-conviction-and-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16591","title":{"rendered":"State to appeal Oscar Pistorius conviction and sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s state prosecutors will appeal the culpable homicide conviction and five-year jail sentence handed down last week on Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Monday.<span id=\"midArticle_byline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oscar Pistorius judgement, NPA will be appealing both the conviction and sentence,&#8221; NPA spokesman Nathi Mncube said on his Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius, whose lower legs were amputated as a baby but who ran on carbon fibre prosthetic limbs, was convicted of culpable homicide last month for the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, a 29-year-old law graduate and model, at his luxury Pretoria home.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors failed to prove murder after the athlete said he fired in the mistaken belief an intruder was hiding behind the door, a defence that struck a chord with many people in a country with one of the world&#8217;s highest rates of violent crime.<\/p>\n<p>However, Judge Thokozile Masipa&#8217;s decision drew criticism from some legal experts who said she had made an error in her interpretation of the legal concept of &#8216;dolus eventualis&#8217;, whereby a person is held accountable for the foreseeable consequences of their actions.<\/p>\n<p>Other lawyers said her verdict was sound.<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, an appeal by the state against a verdict can only be made on a matter of law, and does not involve a retrial or the submission of any new evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Also read <a title=\"On Oscar Pistorius, singularity and libtards\" href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16570\">On Oscar Pistorius, singularity and libtards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s state prosecutors will appeal the culpable homicide conviction and five-year jail sentence handed down last week on Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Monday. &#8220;Oscar Pistorius judgement, NPA will be appealing both the conviction and sentence,&#8221; NPA spokesman Nathi Mncube said on his Twitter feed. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;State to appeal Oscar Pistorius conviction and sentence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,40,2545,2936],"class_list":["post-16591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-murder","tag-oscar-pistorius","tag-trial"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16593,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16591\/revisions\/16593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}