Sentences with phrase «culpable homicide when»

Idem (5) A person commits culpable homicide when he causes the death of a human being,

He's speaking after an appeal court judge overruled a previous decision that Oscar Pistorius had committed culpable homicide when he killed his late girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, and changed it to murder.

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Masipa based her culpable homicide decision on the fact Pistorius had acted negligently when he fired four shots from a 9 mm pistol into a bathroom door in his luxury Pretoria home, killing Steenkamp, who was behind it, almost instantly.