Judge Grants Prosecution in Appeal in Pistorius Case

A South African judge has granted prosecutors an appeal of the culpable homicide verdict against athlete Oscar Pistorius, clearing them to seek a more serious murder conviction in the country's Supreme Court. Judge Thokozile Masipa announced her decision Wednesday, saying she "cannot say the prospect of success at the Supreme Court is remote." She originally ruled in September that prosecutors gave only circumstantial evidence that Pistorius was guilty of premeditated...

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