![Oscar Pistorius Is Tried For The Murder Of His Girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp Oscar Pistorius Is Tried For The Murder Of His Girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/oscar-pistorius5.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
By NBC News
Prosecutors will appeal Oscar Pistorius’ culpable homicide conviction and five-year prison sentence, South African officials said Monday. Judge Thokozile Masipa had cleared Pistorius of murder but found him guilty of culpable homicide, a charge similar to manslaughter, for the Valentine’s Day killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Prosecutors had asked for the athlete to serve a decade behind bars but Masipa, in handing down her sentence last week, described five years as “fair and just both to society and to the accused.”
The National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa said in a statement Monday that its team had been…
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