Socrates resource in the hands of former deputy director of the PJ – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

The decision of the Lisbon Court of relations on the use of coercive measures applied to José Sócrates, in custody since November, will have the reporting judge Augustine Soares Torres, Deputy former national director of the Judicial Police.

                     

                          The judge of the 5th Criminal Chamber of the Court of the Lisbon Relationship led the Combat Center Directorate to the banditry of the National Directorate PJ between November 2004 and June 2005, and was appointed by then-Justice Minister José Pedro Aguiar-Branco. 57, the magistrate went before the Court of Appeal of Coimbra.

The information contained in the table of the distribution process of the Lisbon Relationship carried out on Monday. Agostinho Soares Torres prepare the proposed decision which will be voted on by another magistrate, Judge John Carrola. In case of tie, it will be the President of the Chamber, Filomena Clemente Lima, the final decision.

The process in which Socrates is accused came to the Lisbon Friday at 17:00, and was delivered by hand, said the PUBLIC President of that court, Luis Vaz das Neves. The magistrate admitted that there was a problem in the computer program that performs the electronic distribution in the courts of appeal, but stressed that the distribution process was not affected. “At noon, as usual, the distribution was already made,” he said Vaz das Neves. He added: “The program was inaccessible about an hour between 9:30 am and 10:30 am”

The process goes to the 5th Criminal Division, who shall present to the Ministry. Public (MP) on the ratio of Lisbon. This will have 10 days to decide if you wish. If you do, the defense of Socrates will be notified, also within 10 days to rule on the position of the MP. It is only at the end of this circuit that the reporting judge analyzes the process and prepares the draft judgment, which will also be voted by the deputy judge.

Agostinho Soares Torres is a member of the supervisory board of the Justice and Democracy Movement, one association of judges. It was also a government employee between September 1975 and January 1983 and was, in 1981, a lawyer in the Department of the Institute of Support for National Return. Entered the Judicial Studies Centre in 1983 and took over as judge in July 1985 and after exercise the President Judge of the Setúbal court. Passed later (2001) by Good Time Court in Lisbon, and in 2003 was sworn in as judge judge being placed in the ratio of Coimbra. Agostinho Soares Torres also worked at the training of judges on stage scheme for five years and was a member of the jury who evaluated the candidates to the judiciary.

For the Lisbon still followed other resources. The businessman Carlos Santos Silva, friend of the former Prime Minister and also in custody in connection with the Operation Marquis , will be examined by the judge rapporteur Mary Grace Santos Silva, the 3rd Criminal Division . The Judge Ricardo Cardoso, the 5th section, shall be responsible for feature lawyer Gonçalo Ferreira, also accused in the same case. According to information available on the website of the court, the appeal of former driver of Socrates, John Perna, has not yet been distributed.