Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
The appellant, sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for drug trafficking, a sentence upheld by the Supreme Court, brought an extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality alleging that his first-instance trial by a single judge rather than a panel breached impartiality and the right to a fair trial. The Court rejected the application because his submissions attacked the first-instance decision rather than the Supreme Court judgment and the issue of the court's composition had not been raised earlier.
Decision
Application rejected
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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