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Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality

Judgment No. 574/2019

Appeal dismissed (supervening mootness)
Date
10 October 2019
Case
739-C/2019
Formation
Plenary
Rapporteur
Maria da Conceição de Almeida Sango
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Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.

SummaryUnofficial

Two defendants held in pre-trial detention for more than nine months without charge appealed against a Supreme Court judgment refusing their habeas corpus application for lack of information on the state of the proceedings, invoking liberty and the presumption of innocence. The Court found that the decision rested on a ground with no legal basis and that the detention limit had been exceeded, but dismissed the appeal because the proceedings had become moot.

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Decision

Appeal dismissed (supervening mootness)

Type of proceedings

Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)

Full text

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