Joana Case: Court keeps sentences on former pj inspectors

My friends, this was taken from DN Portugal newspaper:

http://www.dn.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1882361&page=-1&success=1

Joana Case: Court keeps sentences on former pj inspectors

The Évora Court refuted the existence of "unconstitutionality and nullity" in judgment which upheld the conviction of former inspectors of the Judicial Police (PJ) in the case of attacks on Leonor Cipriano, Joana's mother of child missing in the Algarve in 2004.

On 18 March this year, the Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of former PJ inspector Gonçalo Amaral and António Nunes Cardoso, with suspended sentences, the Court of Faro in 2009, but the latter former agent requested "clarification and reform of judgment. "

According to judicial sources, the Évora Court understood that "lacks reason," the application of António Nunes Cardoso, sentenced to two years and three months imprisonment with suspended sentence for the crime of document forgery. Understand yet the appellate court that the appeal of Évora "surpasses fully the scope allowed to a request for clarification or adduction of errors, oversights, or obscurities nonentities."

In the decision of the resources of the former inspectors, reported on 18 March 2011, the Court / Relation also maintained the sentence of one year and six months in prison for the crime of making false allegations, suspended on probation, applied to Gonçalo Amaral, former coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department in Portimão.

Following the decision of the Appeal, Marcos Aragão Correia, Leonor Cipriano's lawyer, filed a complaint against the Portuguese state at the United Nations for violating "gross the most basic human rights." The lawyer said the agency Lusa that the conviction and ordered the expulsion of Portugal's Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations.

The case of attacks on Leonor Cipriano was under trial in Faro in 2009, but the Court of Faro did not determine the authorship of the attacks on the mother of Joana. Besides Gonçalo Amaral, acquitted of the crime of failure to report abuse, and António Nunes Cardoso, was also judged the former inspector Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, Leonel Marques Morgado still active agent and Paulo Marques Bom, Paulo Pereira Cristovao, Leonel Marques Morgado and Paulo Marques Bom were acquitted.

Joana disappeared on December 12, 2004 the village of Figueiró, Portimão, and Leonor Cipriano and her brother, João Cipriano, were sentenced in 2006 to 16 years in prison each on charges of murder and concealment of a corpse after appeal the sentence of 18 years.

The case went back to court in late 2008, with the mother of Joana accusing five PJ and former PJ inspectors, in a process involving crimes of torture, failure to report and document forgery.

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My friends, this was taken from Correio da Manhã newspaper:

http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/detalhe/noticias/ultima-hora/caso-joana-relacao-nao-da-razao-a-ex-inspectores

Joana Case: Court keeps sentences on former pj inspectors

The Évora Court refuted the existence of "unconstitutionality and nullity" in judgment which upheld the conviction of former inspectors of the Judicial Police (PJ) in the case of attacks on Leonor Cipriano, Joana's mother of child missing in the Algarve in 2004.

On 18 March this year, the Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of former PJ inspector Gonçalo Amaral and António Nunes Cardoso, with suspended sentences, the Court of Faro in 2009, but the latter former agent requested "clarification and reform of judgment. "

According to judicial sources, the Évora Court understood that "lacks reason," the application of António Nunes Cardoso, sentenced to two years and three months imprisonment with suspended sentence for the crime of document forgery. Understand yet the appellate court that the appeal of Évora "surpasses fully the scope allowed to a request for clarification or adduction of errors, oversights, or obscurities nonentities."

In the decision of the resources of the former inspectors, reported on 18 March 2011, the Court / Relation also maintained the sentence of one year and six months in prison for the crime of making false allegations, suspended on probation, applied to Gonçalo Amaral, former coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department in Portimão.

Following the decision of the Appeal, Marcos Aragão Correia, Leonor Cipriano's lawyer, filed a complaint against the Portuguese state at the United Nations for violating "gross the most basic human rights." The lawyer said the agency Lusa that the conviction and ordered the expulsion of Portugal's Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations.

The case of attacks on Leonor Cipriano was under trial in Faro in 2009, but the Court of Faro did not determine the authorship of the attacks on the mother of Joana. Besides Gonçalo Amaral, acquitted of the crime of failure to report abuse, and António Nunes Cardoso, was also judged the former inspector Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, Leonel Marques Morgado still active agent and Paulo Marques Bom, Paulo Pereira Cristovao, Leonel Marques Morgado and Paulo Marques Bom were acquitted.

Joana disappeared on December 12, 2004 the village of Figueiró, Portimão, and Leonor Cipriano and her brother, João Cipriano, were sentenced in 2006 to 16 years in prison each on charges of murder and concealment of a corpse after appeal the sentence of 18 years.

The case went back to court in late 2008, with the mother of Joana accusing five PJ and former PJ inspectors, in a process involving crimes of torture, failure to report and document forgery.

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