If you look at the laws (link in my post above), the arguido status time is more complicated than that.
Artigo 215
1 - Pre-trial detention is extinguished when, since its inception, have passed: a) four months without having been charged; b) eight months without, and there will be instruction has been issued instructory decision; c) A year and two months without there being any conviction in 1st instance; . d) One year and six months without there being any conviction with res judicata 2 - The periods referred to in the preceding paragraph are high, respectively, for 6 months, 10 months, 1 year and 6 months and 2 years, in cases of terrorism or violent or highly organized crime, or when proceeding for a crime punishable with a maximum prison sentence of more than eight years, or crime: a) Provided for in Article 299 o, in paragraph 1 of Article 312, paragraph 2 of Article 315, paragraph 1 of Article 318, in Articles 319, 326 and 331 or in paragraph 1 of Article 333 of the Criminal Code; b) vehicle theft or falsification of documents relating to them or identifying elements of vehicles; c) forgery of money, securities, tax stamps, seals and equivalent or its passage; d) fraud, fraudulent bankruptcy, harmful administration of public or cooperative sector, forgery, corruption, embezzlement or participating in business; e) bleaching advantages of illicit origin; f) fraud obtaining or embezzlement of subsidies, grants or credit; . g) Covered by convention on safety of air or maritime navigation 3 - The periods referred to in paragraph 1 are high, respectively, for a year, a year and four months, two years and six months and three years and four months, when the procedure is for one of the crimes referred to above, and prove exceptionally complex, due in particular to the number of defendants or offended or highly organized nature of the crime. 4 - The exceptional complexity referred to in this article may only be declared during the 1st instance, by reasoned order, on its own initiative or at the request of the prosecutor after hearing the defendant and the wizard. 5 - The periods referred to in paragraphs c) and d ) of paragraph 1 and the correspondingly referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 are added six months if there has been appealed to the Constitutional Court or the criminal proceedings have been suspended for trial in another question of law. 6 - Should the defendant have been sentenced to prison in 1st instance and the sentence was confirmed in ordinary appeal, the maximum period of preventive detention rises to half the sentence has been fixed. 7 - The existence of several cases against the accused for crimes committed before it received probation does not exceed the time limits laid down in the preceding paragraphs. 8 - In counting the maximum length of probation periods periods are included in that the accused have been subject to obligation to remain in the room.
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1 - The prosecutor terminating the investigation, filing it or deducting charges, the maximum periods of six months, if defendants arrested or under obligation to remain in the room, or eight months if there are no.
2 - The term six months referred to above is high: a) For eight months, when the survey have as their object one of the crimes referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 215; b) for 10 months when, regardless of the crime, the procedure proved exceptionally complex, according to the final part of paragraph 3 of Article 215; c) For 12 months, the cases referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 215 3 - For the purposes of the before, the period shall run from the moment that the investigation has passed to run against a person or that he has verified the creation of accused. 4 - The process of the holder magistrate informs the immediate superior breach of any period provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2 or paragraph 6 of Article 89, indicating the reasons for the delay and the time required to complete the survey. 5 - In the cases referred to above, the supervisor may to call the process and always informs the Attorney General's Office, the accused and the term violation of worker and the time required to complete the survey. 6 - Having received the notification referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Attorney General of the Republic may determine ex officio or the defendant's request or the wizard, the procedural acceleration in accordance with Article 109
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