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Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality

Judgment No. 782/2022

Appeal allowed
Date
15 November 2022
Case
967-A/2022
Formation
Plenary
Rapporteur
Simão de Sousa Victor
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Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.

SummaryUnofficial

A convicted citizen lodged an extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality against the Supreme Court Criminal Chamber judgment increasing his sentence without his having been notified of the Public Prosecution Service's opinion seeking that increase. The Court allowed the appeal for breach of the accusatorial and adversarial principles, legality, the right to a fair trial and equality, also noting a contradiction between the grounds and the decision and inadequate reasons for the sentence.

adversarial principleaccusatorial principleright to a fair trialincrease of sentenceduty to give reasons

Decision

Appeal allowed

Type of proceedings

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

Full text

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