{"id":3192,"date":"2013-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.conectas.org.inf.br\/wp\/noticias\/law-that-gives-superpowers-to-sao-paulo-state-court-is-challenged-in-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2021-05-05T18:54:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:54:30","slug":"law-that-gives-superpowers-to-sao-paulo-state-court-is-challenged-in-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/law-that-gives-superpowers-to-sao-paulo-state-court-is-challenged-in-supreme-court\/","title":"Law that gives superpowers to S\u00e3o Paulo State Court is challenged in Supreme Court","content":"

In response to an unprecedented joint effort by the S\u00e3o Paulo State Public Defender\u2019s Office, the State Public Prosecutors Office, the Judges for Democracy Association, the Brazilian Bar Association and civil society organizations, the Office of the Attorney General has filed a Direct Action of Unconstitutionality<\/u><\/a> with the Supreme Court against Complementary State Law No. 1208<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

By creating a centralized department for the enforcement of prison sentences in S\u00e3o Paulo and giving the Superior Council of the Judiciary the responsibility for appointing and removing judges, the law threatens the independence of judges and paves the way for the ideological control of court rulings, a criticism currently leveled against the Department of Police Inquiries and Criminal Investigators (DIPO) of the Criminal Courthouse of Barra Funda, in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

The law proposed by the S\u00e3o Paulo State Court<\/u><\/a>, with the broad support of the S\u00e3o Paulo state government, was approved by the state legislature in August, after being granted fast track status.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis law threatens the principles of the \u2018natural judge\u2019 and the \u2018non-removability\u2019 of judges, which guarantee an impartial adjudication and protect both the judge and the citizen,\u201d said Rafael Cust\u00f3dio, coordinator of the Justice program at Conectas. \u201cMoreover, the concentration of the courts in a single department in the S\u00e3o Paulo state capital further removes, both physically and symbolically, the prisoner, their family and their defense counsel from the justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Cust\u00f3dio, the decision of the Office of the Attorney General to file the case with the Supreme Court adds strength to the mobilization of civil society against the move by the S\u00e3o Paulo judiciary and increases the chances that an injunction will halt the process of implementing the law.<\/p>\n

The Direct Action of Unconstitutionality, ADI 5070<\/u><\/a>, has been fully endorsed by Attorney General, Rodrigo Janot, and may be consulted here.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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