Supreme Court case law on the appeal system and the beginning of sentencing executing: the poverty of Brazilian comparative law

This paper aims to discuss the use, by the Supreme Brazilian Court, of the comparative method as a basis for its rationality about the moment when the penal sentencing must be executed and the penalty must be executed. After an analysis of the ways of the Court’s understanding on that subject, it wi...

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Main Author: Fauzi Hassan Choukr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Processual Penal 2018-10-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal
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Online Access:http://www.ibraspp.com.br/revista/index.php/RBDPP/article/view/177
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Summary:This paper aims to discuss the use, by the Supreme Brazilian Court, of the comparative method as a basis for its rationality about the moment when the penal sentencing must be executed and the penalty must be executed. After an analysis of the ways of the Court’s understanding on that subject, it will be appreciated how the comparative law was employed in the most recent decision on the subject, which was used with fragile methodological basis, so being used as an authoritative argument to support them.
ISSN:2525-510X