{"id":11155,"date":"2018-04-09T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=11155"},"modified":"2018-04-09T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:08:25","slug":"south-africas-top-court-dismisses-pistorius-bid-to-appeal-murder-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/04\/09\/south-africas-top-court-dismisses-pistorius-bid-to-appeal-murder-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s top court dismisses Pistorius’ bid to appeal murder sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa\u2019s Constitutional Court has dismissed an application by paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius to appeal his sentence for murdering his girlfriend, legal documents showed on Monday.<\/p>\n

Pistorious was initially jailed for six years for shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp, but prosecutors argued that sentence had been \u201cshockingly lenient\u201d and an appeal court agreed in November to more than double the term to 15 years.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Pistorius challenged the appeals court\u2019s ruling in the Constitutional Court.<\/div>\n

\u201cThe Constitutional Court has considered the application for condonation and leave to appeal. It has concluded that … the application for leave to appeal should be dismissed as it does not engage this court\u2019s jurisdiction,\u201d read the court\u2019s order dated March 28 and made public by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The NPA said it was pleased with the order.<\/div>\n

\u201cWe have always contended as the NPA that their leave to appeal has no prospects of success, and the Constitutional Court has just confirmed that,\u201d NPA spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku said.<\/p>\n

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Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; editing by Andrew Roche<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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