article_snippet: In December, Judge Thokozile Masipa granted prosecutors permission to take the case to South Africa Supreme Court of Appeal and challenge South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal own ruling to acquit Oscar Pistorious of murder and find Judge Thokozile Masipa guilty instead of a lesser charge comparable to manslaughter.
article_snippet: Oscar Pistorious's lawyers had argued that Judge Thokozile Masipa should not have allowed that appeal.
article_snippet: Judge Masipa, who presided over Oscar Pistorious's seven-month murder trial and the start of the appeal process by prosecutors, made her own ruling after a short court session in Johannesburg.
article_snippet: Oscar Pistorious'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.