Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
The appellant, a police officer convicted of intentional homicide and bodily harm after firing to disperse a group of young people, brought an extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality against a judgment of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court that kept the legal classification while reducing the sentence, invoking legality and proportionality. The Court dismissed the appeal because classifying the act as homicide with dolus eventualis, and the extraordinarily mitigated sentence, were neither illogical nor disproportionate.
Decision
Appeal dismissed
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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