The latest in a series of trials has begun for a landowner convicted of
ordering the 2005 slaying of American nun and Amazon defender Dorothy
Stang.
Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura has been tried three times and sentenced to
between 29 and 30 years in prison, but his lawyers appealed and the
Supreme Court annulled Moura's latest conviction, saying he wasn't given
enough time to prepare his defense during the 2010 trial.
Prosecutors contend that Moura and another rancher hired gunmen to kill
Stang, who was born in Dayton, Ohio. The defense contends there isn't
enough evidence linking Moura to the crime.
Thursday's proceedings are taking place in Belem, the capital of the
violence-wracked Amazonian state of Para. A verdict is expected by the
end of the day.
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