Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
A citizen convicted of offences including aggravated homicide and domestic violence, with a single sentence of 26 years' imprisonment, appealed against a Supreme Court judgment upholding the conviction, invoking the right to a fair trial, the adversarial principle and in dubio pro reo. The Court dismissed the appeal because the conviction rested on legally admissible evidence, including circumstantial evidence, and the appellant was in effect seeking a retrial.
Decision
Appeal dismissed
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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