Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius accept filed an address in a South African cloister adjoin bond restrictions imposed on the Olympian, who is answerable with murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius has been blockage at his uncle Arnold's home in a Pretoria suburb back he was appear on bond on February 22.
In the papers, attorneys for the double-amputee amateur argued adjoin the claim that he abandonment all passports and biking documents, and burden from applying for such abstracts awaiting the end of his case.
"The altitude appealed adjoin are baseless and not embodied by the facts," said the appeal, which was filed on Friday in Pretoria, a archetype of which was emailed to the AP account bureau on Monday.
Pistorius says he afield attempt Steenkamp on February 14, cerebration she was an burglar in his home.
Prosecutors accept he dead her carefully afterwards an argument.
The defence aswell argued that the agent should be accustomed admission to the acreage at Silverwoods Country Acreage area he attempt Steenkamp, already the accompaniment completes its investigations there aural a "reasonable time limit".
"A absolute brake on speaking to association is unfair" and infringes on Pistorius' rights to argue humans on the acreage to adapt for his trial, the address said.
'No basis'
Defence attorneys said affirmation presented at the athlete's bond audition showed he is not a flight accident and should accept the advantage of travelling alfresco South Africa as continued as he has official permission.
The address aswell said there was "no base in actuality or in law'' answer agreement beneath which Pistorius have to be supervised by a acquittal administrator and a correctional official.
Officials will appointment Pistorius at his uncle's home at atomic four times a month, according to James Smalberger, arch agent abettor of the administration of correctional services, who batten to AP last
month.
"He's not beneath abode arrest, but his movements charge to be accepted to us so that we don't angle there and he's not there," Smalberger had said.
"We accede on 'free time' commonly during the advance of the day, and in the black we apprehend him to be home."
The address adjoin the bond altitude aswell objected to the claim that Pistorius burden from application booze or any banned substance, even admitting he had no ambition of accomplishing so.
"The simple use of any actuality with booze in it will accord acceleration to a breach of the advanced action imposed," the address said.
Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair had set bond at $113,000.
The 26-year-old clue brilliant was aswell ordered to about-face in any accoutrements he owns, and cannot leave the commune of Pretoria after his acquittal officer's permission.
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