Does anyone know what happened when Amaral appealed against his criminal conviction re Leonor Cipriano?
Was that accepted by the Judge at the first attempt, or did he have to go to a higher court to get the appeal heard? Was it actually heard at all - or was it not allowed to be heard? All I know is that it failed - whether it failed to be heard or was heard and then thrown out - I don't know.
Anyone got any info on this? It might give us a clue as to how these things work in practise - although I realise that his previous failed appeal was in a Criminal court and so might not apply to this appeal.
It seems that the appeal went through, but the court upheld the ruling.
18 March 2011
The Appellate Court of Évora did not approve the appeals of the two Judiciary Police officers who were convicted in Leonor Cipriano’s trial and decided to maintain the ruling made at the court of first instance...
https://madeleinemccannthetruth.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/evoras-court-upheld-the-pj-officers-convictions/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.
http://www.dn.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1882361&page=-1&success=1