The master of May for the murder of American nun Dorothy Stang in the Amazon has been blamed for 2005 should be reported to prison after himself
Vitalmiro Bastos Moura was originally convicted of murder in 2007. The verdict was annulled a year later, but is now subject to a new trial.
Killing in the State of Par, has provoked outrage in Brazil and abroad.
Dorothy Stang, 73, a campaign for the conservation of tropical forests and protect the rights of workers in agriculture.
He had lived in Brazil for 30 years when he was shot as she walked through a muddy forest track.
Hundreds of people were killed in land conflicts in that part of Brazil in recent decades with the police, reports the BBC Duffy Gary in Sao Paulo.
But there was widespread anger over the murder of 73-year-old American missionary, he said.
If Vitalmiro Bastos Moura, was sentenced in 2007 due to the arrangement of the murder of the judge, had a violent personality that made him unfit for society.
However, the sentence was overturned a year later he was free to live during the protracted legal discussions of the case.
The judge has now agreed that the owner must return to prison pending a new trial – expected by the end of the year – and should have left the police.
Even today, there are missionaries who campaign on behalf of the poor in the Amazon region, death threats and the protection of the police should do their job for, our correspondent says.