Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
A citizen convicted in criminal proceedings lodged an extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality against the Luanda Court of Appeal judgment, alleging that the facts were covered by the 2022 Amnesty Law and that one judge had presided over both investigation and trial. The Court allowed the appeal, declaring the judgment unconstitutional for breaching the right to a fair trial, impartiality and the irreversibility of amnesties, and remitted the case for a one-quarter sentence reduction under Law No. 35/22.
Decision
Appeal allowed
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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