Oscar Pistorius Gets 5 Years For Killing His Girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

The Huffington Post | By Ed Mazza Email Posted: 10/21/2014 4:24 am EDT 
Oscar Pistorius was sentenced in South Africa today to five years in prison for the 2013 shooting death of his then-girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp.
Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Pistorius
He was also given a 3-year suspended sentence for a firearms conviction.
Pistorius' attorney, Barry Roux, told Reuters he expects the double-amputee athlete to serve only 10 months of the sentence in prison, with the rest of the time under house arrest, while prosecutors believe he will be jailed for at least 20 months.
Last month, Judge Thokozile Masipa found Pistorius not guilty of murder, but guilty of culpable homicide.
Pistorius, 27, did not dispute that he shot and killed Steenkamp. However, Pistorius argued that he believed she was an intruder when he shot her through a locked bathroom door at his home in Pretoria in the early-morning hours of Feb. 14, 2013.
Prosecutors had called for a minimum of 10 years in prison, while attorneys for Pistorius suggested a lighter sentence combining house arrest with community service, saying prisons would not be able to accommodate his disability, according to The Associated Press.
But the judge didn't buy that argument. more

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