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Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality

Judgment No. 802/2023

Appeal dismissed; sentence to be adjusted
Date
8 February 2023
Case
961-C/2022
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

A citizen convicted of robbery combined with attempted homicide lodged an extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality against a Supreme Court judgment, claiming his conduct had been decriminalised by the new Penal Code and invoking the principles of the democratic rule of law and legality. The Court dismissed the appeal, since the conduct remained punishable and the Supreme Court had applied the law then in force, but ordered the sentence to be adjusted to the more favourable regime of the new Penal Code.

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Decision

Appeal dismissed; sentence to be adjusted

Type of proceedings

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

Full text

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