Policeman Convicted in Rampage That Killed 29
Brazilian police officer Carlos Jorge Carvalho was convicted of taking part in a shooting spree last year that killed 29 people. He was sentenced to 543 years in prison.
The term is largely symbolic because Brazilian law prohibits sentences longer than 30 years.
He was the first policeman to stand trial in connection with the so-called Baixada massacre, named for Rio de Janeiro’s poor northern outskirts where prosecutors say police officers on March 31, 2005, fired on pedestrians, bar patrons and a crowd in a public square.
Carvalho had pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors charge that officers carried out the killings to protest a crackdown on police corruption.
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