 After the court responded to a request from his defense lawyer, De Oliveira was transferred for a third time to the Franco da Rocha Penal Hospital.Subsequently, the presiding judge of the case, Dr. João Batista Lopes, asked three times in 1975 for a mental assessment to decide whether the defendant should be tried.For unknown reasons, the assessment was not carried out that year, and instead rescheduled for early 1976.