A influência da mídia no processo penal brasileiro

Abstract

The present study examines the implications of the media in the criminal law by assessing the possibility of its influence in different criminal cases. As a more specific objective, this study has been retained to examine the existence of the conflict of rights guaranteed by the Constitution, such as the right to ample defense and contradictory and the right of non-guilty, both consolidated in article 5 of the Constitution. This way, this study seeks to verify the effects of criminal spectacularization, in other words, how the media treats current cases more as a spectacle than a legal case. In the methodological aspect, the research will have a bibliographic and descriptive aspect, using concrete cases, which the means of communication constantly reported the development of the processes, interfering positively or negatively in its solution. About the results, the research revealed that the phenomenon has a great influence at the present time, and it causes damage in the application of several fundamental rights guaranteed to the citizens.