Apparently Amaral appealed his conviction in 2011 and lost
http://www.dn.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1882361
Translation:
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 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 "extravassa 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 ratio also remained a 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 tried 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 Cristovao Morgado Leonel Marques and still active agent and Paulo Marques Good Paulo Pereira Cristovao, Leonel Marques Morgado and Paulo Marques Bom were acquitted.