Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
The appellant, in pre-trial detention on suspicion of homicide, appealed against the Supreme Court judgment refusing her habeas corpus application, alleging that the detention time limit had been exceeded and that her arrest was unlawful. The Court held that an extraordinary appeal lies against habeas corpus decisions and, in the operative part, found the appeal well founded "in so far as the pre-trial detention time limit was not exceeded", a 30-day extension having applied within which the indictment was issued.
Decision
Appeal allowed
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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