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A Brazilian court has freed an Amazon rancher accused in the 2005 slaying of a U.S. nun and rain forest activist.
The court says it released Vitalmiro Moura while it considers a petition that would order him brought before a judge.
Moura was convicted in 2007 of orchestrating the slaying of Dorothy Stang of Dayton, Ohio. The nun was shot six times in the jungle city of Anapu, where she had worked to keep ranchers from developing public lands.
Moura was acquitted in a second trial. A court overturned that decision this month, ruling that video evidence his defense had used had been illegally gathered.
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