Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder, though it may be some time before he finds out exactly how long he's set to spend behind bars.
This morning, the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein overturned Pistorius' initial conviction and essentially charged him with murder for killing his model girlfriend, Reeva
Steenkamp.
In a fairly brief judgment by Judge Eric Leach, Pistorius was found to have been indirectly murderous in his actions by firing four shots onto a closed bathroom door when not knowing who or if anyone was behind it.
Pistorius was convicted at the Pretoria High Court last year of the culpable homicide of Steenkamp, whom he allegedly mistook for an intruder at his Pretoria East home on Valentine's Day 2013.
The state revealed
shortly after the conviction it would attempt to overturn the culpable homicide conviction at the Supreme Court of Appeal in a bid to charge the athlete with murder.
In November, prosecutor Gerrie Nel spent hours arguing that the Judge presiding over the original trial, Judge Thokozile Masipa had
failed to correctly apply the principles of dolus eventualis, the concept that suggests meaning Pistorius was aware that when he shot through the toilet door at his Pretoria home, he knew he could potentially kill someone.
This morning at the Supreme Court, Judge Leach read the unanimous judgment of all five Justices presiding over the appeal.
Bloemfontein , SOUTH AFRICA-
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