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Hammond, John L., "Legal victory for MST," NACLA Report on the Americas, 33:6 (2000), p. 2.

Abstract: On April 5, 2000, the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST) had a political victory when José Rainha, a prominent MST leader, was acquitted of the 1989 murders of a landowner and a military police officer. This acquittal reversed Rainha's conviction from a previous trial, in which he was convicted and sentenced to 26 years in prison. During the original trial, several witnesses, including a state legislator, supported Rainha's alibi and only one witness placed him at the scene of the crime, a witness who had given conflicting descriptions of the person he claimed was Rainha. Details are provided of the support that Rainha received during the trial, other instances in which Rainha has suffered legal harassment, and another legal victory for the MST.