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DRUG TRAFFICKING | COMBINED PENALTIES | ROMA RACE | PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY

 

 

Supreme Court of Justice, proc. 666/06.8TABGC-K.S1, 23.06.2010

 

JURISDICTION: Criminal

SUBJECT: Drug trafficking

RAPPORTEUR: Pires da Graça

RULING: Partial granting of the appeal, with reduction of the total penalty applied for the crimes of drug trafficking, aggravated assault, threat, aggravated insult, trespass, slanderous denunciation, coercion and serious coercion, from thirteen to eleven years imprisonment.

DOMESTIC LAW:

Criminal Code [Articles 71, 77, 78, 132, 146, 153, 154 (1), 155(1)(c), 181(1), 184, 191, 356(1)]

Code of Criminal Procedure [Article 417(2)]

Decree-law no. 15/93, of 22 January 1993 (Article 21)

Portuguese Constitution (Article 13)

Supreme Court of Justice, proc. 08P814, 09.04.2008

Supreme Court of Justice, proc. 676/03.7SJPRT.S1, 24.02.2010

Supreme Court of Justice, proc. 392/02.7PFLRS.L1.S1, 20.01.2010

Supreme Court of Justice, proc. 563/03.9PRPRT.S1, 24.02.2010

INTERNATIONAL LAW: n.a.

FOREIGN LAW: n.a.

KEYWORDS: Total penalty; aggravated drug trafficking; combined penalties; criminal tendencies; criminal career; global extent and severity of the defendant’s offending behaviour; defendant’s personality; Roma ethnicity; humble social status; low education level; race; ethnicity; Roma race; low critical judgment; social report; historical analysis of the defendant’s personality; difficult emotional situation; low internalisation of the severity of the offenses; sum of the criminal facts; stronger reasoning for the ruling; art of judging; use of minor; particularly unworthy personality; discriminate negatively; principle of equality

COMMENTS: Coming soon.

REFERENCES IN THE LITERATURE:

FRIEDRICH, Nicole, Diferença Cultural Sub Judice: Minorias Étnicas na Jurisprudência dos Tribunais Superiores Portugueses [Cultural Difference in Court: Ethnic Minorities in the Case Law of Portuguese Higher Courts], Braga, University of Minho, 2022, available at https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/?locale=en.

 

 

REFERENCES IN THE LITERATURE: n.a.

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TagsHistorical Analysis of the Defendant’s Personality Art of Judging Low Education Level Criminal Career Combined Penalties Global eExtent and Severity of the Defendant’s Offending Behaviour Low Internalisation of the Severity of the Offenses Discriminate Negatively Stronger Reasoning for the Ruling Ethnicity Roma Ethnicity Humble Social Status Total Penalty Defendant’s Personality Particularly Unworthy Personality Equality Principle Race Roma Race Low Critical Judgment Social Report Difficult Emotional Situation Sum of the Criminal Facts Criminal Tendencies Aggravated Drug Trafficking Use of Minor