PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A judge on Tuesday let Oscar Pistorius remain under house arrest at his uncle’s mansion and set an April sentencing date, five days after an appeals court convicted the double-amputee Olympian of murder for killing his girlfriend.
In the meantime, Pistorius’ legal team plans to appeal his murder conviction in South Africa’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, chief defense lawyer Barry Roux said.
In convicting Pistorius on Thursday of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the Supreme Court of Appeal threw out a lower court’s lesser manslaughter conviction.