Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
The appellant, convicted of forging credit instruments and theft in connection with the cloning of a debit card, challenged the judgment of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court upholding his conviction, invoking the principles of legality and the presumption of innocence and the insufficiency of the evidence. The Court dismissed the appeal, holding that it is not a court of merits and cannot reassess the evidence, and that the judgment under appeal had not breached the principles invoked.
Decision
Appeal dismissed
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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