No decision on Pistorius release request for at least two weeks – Eurosport.fr

         The commission “met Friday and could not take care of all files, including about Oscar Pistorius. It will meet again in two weeks to look into this case” said Manelisi Wolela, spokesman for the Department of Corrections. This commission had separated Friday without providing any indication of the outcome of the proceedings. “We do not know when the decision will be made. I fear that all this is rather vague,” had said Friday Anneliese Burgess, the spokesman for the Pistorius family AFP.
       

         Very few details have leaked this week on the functioning of this commission which meets in Durban in the south of the country, says Burgess. “There is no specific timetable (for a decision) , its powers are very wide,” said Joey Moses, a lawyer specializing in issues of freedom conditional.
       

         Mr Pistorius, convicted for the death of his girlfriend shot dead in his home in February 2013 to five years in prison for manslaughter, is incarcerated in Pretoria since October 21, 2014. The South African texts authorize his release monitored for good behavior after one sixth of the sentence, the irreducible minimum time. In June, the Committee on early release had therefore decided to release 21 August Pistorius. But to everyone’s surprise, the South African Department of Justice had suspended at the last minute decision, called a “early”, “early”, based on a misinterpretation of the law and asked its review.
       

         Several options are now possible. If the Commission follows the opinion of the Minister of Justice, Pistorius should remain in prison until further notice. If it decides to confirm the notice originally made in June, is expected to set a new prison release date for the athlete. “I do not know what will happen. The Commission may confirm the decision and decide to release him, but it can also reconsider its decision. It can do many things,” said Brian Webber, one of the lawyers of Pistorius, told AFP.
       

         The legal saga is anyway far from over, the prosecution appealed against the conviction of Pistorius felt he should have been sentenced for “murder” and not for “manslaughter”. The appeal will be heard in November by the Supreme Court of Appeal, which may alter the verdict and possibly condemn Pistorius in a heavier sentence or decide to return the original trial. The sportsman has always said he thought it was a burglar when he shot four times through the door of the locked toilet.