Corporate Criminal Law Newsletter 5 – Federal Prosecutor´s Office publishes Technical Note favorable to the Criminal Agreement presented by the Minister of Justice and Public Security

22 . January . 2019
Corporate Criminal Law Newsletter 5

Federal Prosecutor´s Office publishes Technical Note favorable to the Criminal Agreement presented by the Minister of Justice and Public Security

By means of a Joint Technical Note #105/2019, the Second Coordination and Revision Chamber (Criminal) was in favor of the new legislative initiative presented by the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Moro, which he intends to add to our legal system the possibility of a Criminal Agreement, which will be similar to the American Plea Bargain model.

In a brief analysis, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that the Brazilian legal system has already become familiar with institutes from the Consensual Criminal Law, such as the Criminal Transaction and Conditional Suspension of the Process (Federal Brazilian Law #9.999/1995), that are considered to be an outspread from a Consensual Justice and a decriminalized measures.

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