Election law keeps son who killed mom free

MyWay News (AP/Reuters) ^ | 9/30/06

[verum ago]

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian law designed to ensure fair elections has kept police from arresting a 23-year-old law student who confessed to hiring hitmen to kill his mother.

Adriano Saddi Lima Oliveira told police he paid 40,000 reais ($18,433) to hitmen who killed his mother Marisa, a real estate tycoon, several months ago, a police investigator told local TV. Oliveira told police his mother was squandering his inheritance going out with her boyfriend.

Police wanted to arrest him but were unable to do so because of a law that prohibits anybody from being arrested five days before and two days after an election, unless they are caught in the act of committing a crime.

The law aims to curb heavy-handed tactics -- like a local political chief trying to hang onto power by having his opponents arrested on election day and locked up until polls close.

Brazil holds general elections on Sunday and police say Oliveira will be arrested next week.

[BenLurkin]

"Oliveira told police his mother was squandering his inheritance going out with her boyfriend."

Dunno about Brazil but under Anglo-American jusriprudence, "The living have no heirs."

[aynrandfreak]

police say Oliveira will be arrested next week If he doesn't bolt in the meantime

[Beth528]

I have been to Sao Paulo.,busy city..but the people on a whole are very nice and friendly..I did have a guide and she took me to all of the great places there..One was a street market where you can buy precious stones very reasonable..And to the malls where teens are just like here all over the place..Good memories..the maids cried when i left and so did I..I treated them with respect and kindness..The people we stayed with had three house maids and a house boy all very poor but was treaded very well..I wonder how this guys treated his servants if he could kill his mother for money he must have been a real jewel of a fellow..

It sounds to me like they are getting like here when election comes around..let the criminals go..