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Judge Thokozile Masipa handed down her sentence after finding
the Paralympian guilty of manslaughter, but acquitting him of murder
after he shot the model at his Pretoria home. Prosecutors had demanded
at least 10 years in prison for the double-amputee athlete. His defense
lawyers argued that three years of correctional supervision, with
periods of house arrest and community service, would be appropriate.
Pistorius testified during his murder trial that he mistook Miss
Steenkamp for a dangerous nighttime intruder about to come out of the
cubicle and attack him when he shot four times through the door with his
9mm pistol. Judge Masipa last month ruled that Pistorius did not intend
to kill Miss Steenkamp, but he acted negligently and with excessive
force in the Valentine's Day 2013 killing.
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