NPR: Oscar Pistorius found guilty of murder after prosecutors appeal original verdict.
NPR: Oscar Pistorius found guilty of murder after prosecutors appeal original verdict.
The court ruled that the trial judge erred last year when she convicted Pistorius of “culpable homicide,” the equivalent of manslaughter, for killing Reeva Steenkamp by shooting her through a bathroom door in 2013.
In overturning the September 2014 verdict, Justice Lorimer Eric Leach of the Supreme Court of Appeal called the case “a human tragedy of Shakespearean proportions,” The Associated Press reports.
