What can we learn from the first cases of the Innocence Project Brazil IV
the Atercino case
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17290080Keywords:
wrongful convictions, criminal evidence, evaluation of evidence, child testimony, sexual crimes, presumption of innocenceAbstract
The article analyzes the Atercino case, one of the first interventions of the Innocence Project Brazil, which led to the reversal of a sexual abuse conviction against minors after five years of wrongful imprisonment. It offers a critical examination of the judgment, exposing flaws in the court's decisional reasoning, especially regarding the overvaluation of minor victims' testimony as the sole evidence supporting the prosecution's hypothesis, and the disregard of significant evidentiary inconsistencies. The study concludes by mapping systemic factors that likely contributed to the error: automatic acceptance of charges, pressure from conflictual family context, judicial outdated knowledge about child testimony psychology, absence of structured decision-making method, and uncritical application of jurisprudence on sexual crimes.
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