{"id":115372,"date":"2016-03-03T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=115372"},"modified":"2016-03-03T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:13:07","slug":"oscar-pistorius-will-be-charged-for-murder-constitutional-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/115372\/oscar-pistorius-will-be-charged-for-murder-constitutional-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Pistorius will be charged for murder: Constitutional Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Court has denied Oscar Pistorius leave to appeal his murder conviction, according to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/concourt-denies-pistorius-leave-appeal?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_term=Autofeed#link_time=1457020824\" target=\"_blank\">eNCA<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court says the defence had no reasonable grounds of success.\u00a0The Olympian will now be sentenced for murder in April,\u201d stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius was originally found guilty of culpable homicide for shooting and killing Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court of Appeal <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/148415-oscar-pistorius-guilty-of-murder-faces-15-years-in-prison.html\">replaced Pistorius\u2019s culpable homicide conviction<\/a><\/strong>with murder in December.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius faces at least 15 years in jail for murder.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Oscar Pistorius<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Oscar Pistorius murder verdict: what does it say about our courts?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/106323\/oscar-pistorius-murder-verdict-what-does-it-say-about-our-courts\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Oscar Pistorius murder verdict: what does it say about our courts?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Here is what\u2019s next for Oscar Pistorius\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/106133\/here-is-whats-next-for-oscar-pistorius\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Here is what\u2019s next for Oscar Pistorius<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder: Supreme Court\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/106115\/oscar-pistorius-guilty-of-murder-supreme-court\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder: Supreme Court<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Court has denied Oscar Pistorius leave to appeal his murder conviction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":32047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,7583],"class_list":["post-115372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-pistorius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115374,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115372\/revisions\/115374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}