What can we learn from the first cases of the Innocence Project Brazil (III)
the Igor case
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wrongful conviction, evaluation of testimonial evidence, eyewitness identification, presumption of innocence, learning from errorsAbstract
The article analyzes the Igor case, one of the first interventions of the Innocence Project Brazil, which culminated in the reversal of his conviction to 15 (fifteen) years and 6 (six) months of imprisonment for robbery and attempted felony murder, after nearly three years of wrongful imprisonment. The text critically examines the judgment, identifying flaws in the decisional or justificatory reasoning, especially regarding the inadequate evaluation of memory-dependent evidence and the disregard of various material evidence. The study culminates with mapping factors that likely contributed to the error: automatic admissibility of charges, issuance and maintenance of pretrial detention, misunderstanding of the criminal judge's role, and absence of a structured decision-making method with debiasing capability.
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