Former Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius will launch an appeal to South Africa's highest court after he was convicted of his girlfriend's murder, his lawyer told a bail hearing on Tuesday.
Judges last week found him guilty of murder and overturned his earlier conviction on the lesser charge of culpable homicide for shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
"(Pistorius's bail) affidavit deals... with the basis for the application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court," Barry Roux told the High Court in Pretoria.
Pistorius, 29, was released from jail in October and is under house arrest in Pretoria after serving one year of his five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide -- the equivalent of manslaughter.
His lawyers had earlier said he could not afford further legal battles after paying huge bills.
Judges last week found him guilty of murder and overturned his earlier conviction on the lesser charge of culpable homicide for shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
"(Pistorius's bail) affidavit deals... with the basis for the application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court," Barry Roux told the High Court in Pretoria.
Pistorius, 29, was released from jail in October and is under house arrest in Pretoria after serving one year of his five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide -- the equivalent of manslaughter.
His lawyers had earlier said he could not afford further legal battles after paying huge bills.
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