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DRUG TRAFFICKING | PRETRIAL DETENTION | EXTREME MOBILITY OF ROMA POPULATIONS | STEREOTYPICAL REMARKS

 

Coimbra Court of Appeal, proc. 109/09.JACBR-A.C1, 14.10.2009

 

JURISDICTION: Criminal

SUBJECT: Drug trafficking

RAPPORTEUR: Belmiro Andrade

RULING: The appeal was dismissed, with confirmation of the pretrial detention

DOMESTIC LAW:

Code of Criminal Procedure [Articles 127, 191 to 194, 196 to 202, 204]

Decree-Law No. 15/93, of 22 January 1993 [Article 21(1)]

Decree-Law No. 430/83, of 13 December 1983 (Preamble)

Portuguese Constitution [Articles 27(3) and 28(2)]

Constitutional Court, judgment 426/91, 06.11.1991

INTERNATIONAL LAW: n.a.

FOREIGN LAW: n.a.

KEYWORDS: Drug trafficking; pretrial detention; in flagrante delicto; prognosis assessment; life conditions; stereotypical and prejudiced remarks; street vending; source of great public unrest; rules of common experience and normality; wiretapping; police surveillance; nature and circumstances of the crime; defendant’s personality; danger of continuation of similar criminal activity; social alarm; drug addiction; negative consequences for the local community; life in society; evil of the century; growing mundialisation of drug trafficking; drug consumers’ social integration; inter-personal cohesion of society’s fundamental organisation units; global assessment of the criminal activities of that nature; encampment; minimum social income; typical situation; persons of Roma ethnicity; flight risk; extreme mobility of Roma populations; xenophobic prejudices

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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Posted inSTEREOTYPICAL REMARKS EXTREME MOBILITY OF ROMA POPULATIONS DRUG TRAFFICKING
TagsEncampment Social Alarm Global Assessment of the Criminal Activities of That Nature Inter-Personal Cohesion of Society’s Fundamental Organisation Units Life Conditions Negative Consequences For the Local Community Stereotypical and Prejudiced Remarks Growing Mundialisation of Drug Trafficking Wiretapping Extreme Mobility of Roma Populations In Flagrante Delicto Source of Great Public Unrest Roma Individuals Drug Consumers’ Social Integration Prognosis Assessment Evil of the Century Nature and Circumstances of the Crime Danger of Continuation of Similar Criminal Activity Flight Risk Defendant’s Personality Xenophobic Prejudices Pretrial Detention Rules of Common Experience and Normality Rules Principles and Values Which are Fundamental to Life in Society Minimum Social Income Typical Situation Drug Addiction Drug Trafficking Street Vending Life in Society Vigilâncias Policiais