Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Supreme Court (Portugal))

Date: 05/28/2020

Subject: The decision of the Constitutional Court, finds the constitutional illegitimacy of article 225(1)(c) of the Criminal Procedure Code, with regard to the burden of proof in the matter of request of compensation after the application of preventive detention followed by the acquittal, also in the light of the norms of the ECHR and of the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg

Parties: A.

Original language: Portuguese

Classification: Justice - Art. 48 Presumption of innocence

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