Overview
- Several outlets reported on Saturday that a São Paulo court accepted the defense’s claim and granted an 80‑day reduction of Lindemberg Alves’s sentence based on his participation and scores in the 2025 ENEM.
- A later report said a different judicial statement rejected the ENEM request after Judge Sueli Zeraik Armani concluded one required minimum score was not met and the São Paulo Ministério Público opposed the remissão.
- Lindemberg was convicted for the 2008 killing of 15‑year‑old Eloá Pimentel, had an initial sentence near 99 years reduced to about 39 years by the TJSP, and would total 887 days of remitted time if the contested 80‑day cut is counted.
- Under Brazil’s penal execution rules, prisoners can remit time through work or approved study, but courts review ENEM‑based requests case by case and require specific score criteria or proportional rulings.
- The conflicting accounts are likely to prompt clarifications or appeals, and the outcome matters both for Lindemberg’s custody status and for how courts apply exam‑based remissão in high‑profile cases.