Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
The assisting party (the injured party) and a defendant sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment for homicide lodged extraordinary appeals on grounds of unconstitutionality against a Supreme Court judgment upholding a co-defendant's acquittal and the defendant's conviction, alleging lack of reasoning and breach of the adversarial and accusatorial principles and the presumption of innocence. The Court held that the judgment was reasoned, the acquittal respected in dubio pro reo and defence safeguards were observed, so the Constitution was not infringed.
Decision
Appeals dismissed
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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