Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
A citizen sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment for rape appealed against the Supreme Court judgment upholding his conviction, alleging a lack of evidence and breaches of the presumption of innocence, in dubio pro reo and material truth. The Court dismissed the appeal, holding that the Supreme Court had assessed the evidence and applied the law to the facts in keeping with those principles, and that it was not for the Court to review the merits of the conviction.
Decision
Appeal dismissed
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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