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A legal loophole does not provide for any coercive measures in these circumstances, and Francismara Machado, who has lived in Maia for three years, has exhausted the 45-day maximum detention period for extradition.
She had been in pre-trial detention recently. An asylum request to AIMA is blocking her extradition.
The woman, a lawyer, has been granted release after being convicted of orchestrating her husband's killing in Brazil.
Francismara Machado, sentenced to 25 years in prison, reportedly attempted suicide before being taken to a women's prison.
