Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
The appellant, a defendant in criminal proceedings under house arrest, lodged an extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality against the judgment of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court refusing his habeas corpus application, invoking the principle of equality. The Court dismissed the appeal, finding that the Supreme Court had weighed the adequacy, necessity and proportionality of the measure within the legal time limits and that habeas corpus is limited to the exhaustive grounds of unlawful detention in the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Decision
Appeal dismissed
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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