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TIL During double-amputee athelete Oscar Pistorius's trial in South Africa for the shooting of his girlfriend, he was found not guilty of murder but guilty of culpable homicide (like manslaughter). However, the prosecution was able to appeal his murder acquittal into a guilty verdict of murder.

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