A FRUSTRADA TENTATIVA DE IMPLANTAÇÃO DO PLEA BARGAINING NO BRASIL
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Plea bargaining is an American mechanism in which the defense waives its right to a trial in order to obtain a reduction in the charges brought by the prosecution and/or in the sentence to be served. By entering into a bargain, the accused even subjects himself to the possibility of serving a custodial sentence. In Brazil, there has recently been a legislative attempt to legalize plea bargaining, which was rejected by the Congress. Nevertheless, an understanding of plea bargaining is essential in order to achieve a better understanding of the process of widening the scope for negotiated criminal justice in the Brazilian legal system, insofar as, despite the legislative rejection of plea bargaining, the agreement not to prosecute has been implemented and, furthermore, there is provision for a plea bargaining mechanism in the draft new Code of Criminal Procedure currently before the legislature. In view of this, the issue to be analyzed in this article concerns the compatibility of plea bargaining with the Brazilian legal system. It is based on the hypothesis that plea bargaining is incompatible with the legal system in Brazil. The general objective of the paper is to detail how plea bargaining works and to analyze the main doctrinal criticisms of the mechanism, with the aim of assessing its suitability for the Brazilian reality. The theoretical construction of "legal translations", coined by Máximo Langer, is applicable to the transfer of legal concepts across different legal systems, as seen between the United States and Brazil, and with the support of legal epistemology, which argues that negotiated criminal justice should also be concerned with approximating the truth of the facts, we conclude that plea bargaining is not compatible with the Brazilian system. It would not be beneficial, as will be observed in the paper, for the negotiated application of imprisonment to be made possible in Brazil, with no need for due criminal process, especially at a time when the country has other negotiated institutes and still lacks fundamental epistemic enhancements.
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