New court documents show Oscar Pistorius was eligible for parole in March under South African law.
from prison because of a miscalculation over when he began serving his sentence for murder, court documents show.
Pistorius' appeal says he was eligible when he attended a parole hearing on March 31, when a parole board denied his early release and ruled he was not eligible until August next year. in prison in 2017 for shooting the 29-year-old model multiple times through a toilet cubicle door with his licensed 9 mm pistol. But that sentence only came after prosecutors successfully appealed a conviction on a lesser charge of culpable homicide — a charge comparable to manslaughter — and also an initial murder sentence of six years.
So, when parole board officials asked the Supreme Court for clarity over Pistorius' sentence ahead of his parole hearing in March, a clerk from the Supreme Court replied that there was no new judgment changing the dates, justice authorities said in their papers to explain what happened with Pistorius' parole hearing. The parole board then had no option but to rule Pistorius ineligible, they said.
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