Trial starts today - Defamation of Goncalo Amaral by Marcos Aragao Correia and Antonio Pedro Dores

From Joana Morais...........

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Defamation of Gonçalo Amaral by Marcos Aragão Correia and António Pedro Dores starts today at the Court of Faro http://is.gd/LHjFrx #mccann

Google translation.................

Defamation of Gonçalo Amaral begins to be judged

The lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia and university professor António Pedro Dores begin this Wednesday to be tried by the Court of Faro, for alleged defamation of a former Inspector of Judicial Police Gonçalo Amaral, after two postponements of the first court session.
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The former inspector, who investigated the disappearance of Jane, daughter of Leonor Cipriano sued both by aludirem publicly that the alleged torture that was targeted during an interrogation.

Aragão Correia, Leonor Cipriano's lawyer, argues that courts have already found as a fact that his client was tortured, although the prosecution maintained the charge in libel suit that has Gonçalo Amaral as the complainant. Remember that, in the case of alleged torture of Leonor Cipriano, Gonçalo Amaral was convicted for the crime of false testimony, one year and six months imprisonment, suspended for the same period.

Marcos Aragão Correia enrolled as defense witnesses the current Chairman of the Lawyers, Antonio Marinho Pinto, and former director of the Prison Odemira Ana Maria Calado. The trial should have started in February but was postponed to March 29 because of a pending appeal, brought by Antonio Pedro Dores, professor and chair of the Association Against Exclusion for Development (ACED).

On March 29, the court again postponed the initial session for today, by Gonçalo Amaral has requested to be heard through videoconferencing, according to the explanation advanced in time by one of the lawyers involved in the process. Absent such a session was also the lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia, who lived in Funchal, which have made the same application to the Court of Faro, forcing the trial to be postponed for the second time.


http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/noticia.aspx?contentid=8279886C-8D4C-4552-B6CE-1ABDE57FEB20&channelid=00000010-0000-0000-0000-000000000010

god I hope he wins! then onto The Mccanns! could he not sue them too?

Better translation from Joana..........

Defamation of Gonçalo Amaral by Marcos Aragão Correia and António Pedro Dores starts today at the Court of Faro

18 April 2012 | Posted by Joana Morais Leave a Comment


Joana Cipriano (pictured top-right), the eight-year old who was murdered

and whose body was horrifically mutilated by her own mother and uncle

The lawyer (and self- proclaimed psychic) Marcos Aragão Correia and the university professor António Pedro Dores start being judged today at the Court of Faro for the alleged defamation of the former inspector of the Judiciary Police inspector Gonçalo Amaral, after two postponements of the first court session.

The former inspector who investigated Joana's disappearance, Leonor Cipriano's daughter, has sued both for publicly alluding to the alleged torture that Leonor was supposedly subjected to in a questioning.

Aragão Correia, Leonor Cipriano's lawyer, alleges that the courts have already proved that his client was tortured, however the Public Ministry has kept the accusation within the scope of the defamation process made by Gonçalo Amaral. The lawyer also recalls that Gonçalo Amaral, within the scope of the alleged torture of Leonor Cipriano [convicted along with her brother João for the homicide of her eight-year old daughter ], was declared guilty of the crime of false deposition and sentenced to a year and six months of suspended sentence.

Marcos Aragão Correia requested as witnesses for his defence the current head of the Portuguese Order of Lawyers, António Marinho e Pinto, the former director of the Odemira penitentiary Ana Maria Calado [in the five PJ inspectors trial it was alleged that inmates could have beaten Leonor Cipriano]. The trial should have started in February but was postponed to March 29 due to a legal expedient made by António Pedro Dores, professor and chairman of the ACED.

On March 29 the court postponed again the initial trial session for today because Gonçalo Amaral requested to be heard by video-conference, according to an explanation given by a lawyer who is intervening in the process. Absent from that session was the Madeira lawyer, Marcos Aragão Correia, who made an identical request to the court which forced the trial to be postponed for a second time.

in Correio da Manhã, April 18, 2012

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2012/04/defamation-of-goncalo-amaral-by-marcos.html

been reading a lot, got the following from a forum that hates this one, a better translation allegedly than the google translation I saw on MM forum.


absolution asked for "slanderers" of Gonçalo Amaral in the "Joana case"

Lawyer and professor were accused of defaming the former PJ inspector, for alleged torture of Leonor Cipriano, condemned by her daughter's death.

The prosecutor asked, on Wednesday, the acquittal of a lawyer and a university professor accused of defaming Gonçalo Amaral, a session marked by the return to court of Leonor Cipriano, condemned by her daughter's death in September 2004, in the Algarve.

During the session, in which were read the closing arguments, the court of Faro heard the deputy of the prosecutor considered that the conditions are not gathered to have convictions.

A lawyer for Leonor Correia, Aragão Correia, and university professor António Pedro Dores, president of the Association Against Exclusion for Development (ACED), are accused of defaming the former inspector, who investigated for nearly eight years the disappearance of Joana, daughter of Leonor Cipriano.

In an article published a report on torture that association, Gonçalo Amaral, now retired, was mentioned as one of the torturers of Leonor.

In closing arguments, the representative of the MP held that the acquittal is justified because it was proven that there really was torture, practiced by members of the PJ at the premises of police in Faro, even not having been able to prove exactly who tortured.

According to the deputy, even though there are different accounts of what actually happened on the premises of PJ in 14 and October 15, 2004, stopped making sense to speak of defamation because all evidence points to the existence of torture.

On the other hand, stressed the consistency of Leonor Cipriano about the authorship of Gonçalo Amaral as one of the perpetrators of the attacks, although the mother of Joana have different versions on other aspects of the events.

The prosecutor also criticized the "incorrect story 'that Leonor Cipriano injuries should be from a fall down the stairs on the premises of the PJ in Faro, reported that a police report.

Before, Leonor Cipriano, who is serving in Prison Odemira, reported in court what happened that day, reiterating that on the afternoon of October 14, 2004, was tortured for six elements of the PJ, including Gonçalo Amaral.

According to its description, Eleanor, heard as a witness, the inspectors put a bag over her head, kicked it around the body and hit him with a telephone book and a blunt object.

Reportedly, the attacks continued after they have forced her to kneel on glass ashtrays with two sharp edges, transported by Gonçalo Amaral.

In a story that had to be interrupted by the presiding judge, when the witness began to cry before the physical torture Leonor was posted for a long time in an office with a pistol on the desk.

The Court of Faro scored for July 17 the sentencing of this case.

The May 22, 2009, Gonçalo Amaral, so now retired, was sentenced to one year in prison for making false allegations, were suspended for the same period in the trial of the alleged attacks on Leonor Cipriano, but was acquitted on the criminal of omission of denunciation.

The trial involved five inspectors and former inspectors of the PJ, and Leonel Marques, Pereira Cristóvão, Paulo Marques Bom were acquitted of the crimes they were accused, and Antonio Nunes Cardoso was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for forgery of a document with probation for two years.

Leonor Cipriano and the missing girl's uncle, João Cipriano, were convicted in November 2004 to 20 years and four months and 19 years and two months imprisonment, respectively, for murder and concealment of a corpse.

On appeal, the sentence of Leonor Cipriano was reduced to 16 years and eight months

Yes, the little cabal on another forum were getting quite excited by this. One or two seemed to be of the opinion that Dr Amaral had lost already. They are quite strange over on the dark side and have a lot of vitriol. I did wipe my feet on the way out.