[1] Acioli championed the rights of battered women and fought against organized crime and corrupt police officers.
Since 1999, she has sat at the Fourth Court of Criminal Section of São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro.
On the night of August 11, 2011, Acioli returned to her vehicle at the Courts of São Gonçalo, where she worked and headed towards her home in the neighborhood of Piratininga in the city of Niterói.
The president of the Supreme Federal Court described the act as a premeditated "attack against Brazilian government and democracy".
[3] According to the investigations, which were conducted by Deputy Felipe Ettore and Commissioner José Carlos Guimarães of the Homicide Division of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Patrícia's murder was committed by military police officers dissatisfied with their actions in relation to a group of agents who operated in the city of São Gonçalo committing homicides and extortion.