South African Judge Denies Prosecutor's Petition To Resentence Pistorius

A South African judge Friday denied state prosecutors permission to appeal Oscar Pistorius’s six-year murder sentence saying their petition had no reasonable prospects of success, Newsweek reported via Reuters. Judge Thokozile Masipa Masipa had sentenced the Paralympic gold medalist in July for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but the prosecution felt the sentence was too lenient. Pistorius’s defense had earlier argued the state was prejudiced and had dragged the case on for too long, Newsweek reported. “I’m not persuaded that there are reasonable prospects of success on appeal or that another court may find differently For that reason, I grant the following order: The...