CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE O PRINCÍPIO DA LIVRE APRECIAÇÃO DA PROVA NO PROCESSO PENAL PORTUGUÊS
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The principle of free assessment of evidence is provided for in Article 127 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The free conviction of the judge and the rules of common experience will translate the result of the evidence produced in the seat of a discussion and judgment hearing and will constitute the substratum of a condemnatory or acquittal decision. This principle removes any form of pre-setting the value to be assigned to each of the admissible and legally applicable means of proof in criminal proceedings. Judicial practice has revealed cases (some even mediatic) of assessment of evidence in a very different way between judges of different courts, e.g. from a conviction handed down in the first instance with a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison, there is an acquittal on appeal, based on the same evidentiary material. It is a topic that confuses those less knowledgeable about procedural rules. Despite some tensions within the procedural system, the divergence of assessment of evidence is inseparable from being a person and the horizon of individual perceptions. A clear understanding of the principle in question and its proper use are fundamental to the regular administration of criminal justice.
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