article_snippet: Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius (pictured at his sentencing in October) have failed in their bid to stop prosecutors appealing against the athlete's negligent killing conviction for shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead two years ago .
article_snippet: Pistorius lawyers have failed in Oscar Pistorius's lawyers attempt to stop prosecutors appealing against the athlete's negligent killing conviction for shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead two years ago.
article_snippet: Judge Thokozile Masipa dismissed Judge Thokozile Masipa application to challenge the appeal by prosecutors, who want Pistorius convicted of the more serious charge of murder for shooting Judge Thokozile Masipa girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, multiple times in a bathroom in Judge Thokozile Masipa home on Valentine's Day in 2013. '
article_snippet: In December, Judge Thokozile Masipa Judge Thokozile Masipa granted prosecutors permission to take the case to South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal and challenge South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal to acquit Pistorius of murder and find Judge Thokozile Masipa guilty instead of a lesser charge comparable to manslaughter.
article_snippet: Pistorius's lawyers were arguing that Judge Thokozile Masipa should not have allowed that appeal.
article_snippet: Judge Masipa, who presided over Pistorius's seven-month murder trial and the start of the appeal process by prosecutors, made South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal after a short court session in Johannesburg.
article_snippet: Pistorius's trial was held in another courthouse in Pretoria.
article_snippet: Pistorius's trial now looks set to be reviewed by a panel of judges at the Supreme Court of Appeal, which sits in the central city of Bloemfontein.
article_snippet: No date has been given for that appeal but cases can sometimes take two years to reach South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal, legal experts have said.
highlights_snippet: Pistorius trial set to be reviewed by panel of judges at Supreme Court of Appeal .