Análise da competência criminal da justiça eleitoral de Sousa-PB para julgamento dos crimes comuns conexos aos crimes eleitorais.

Abstract

The present work is based on the problem raised by the Federal Supreme Court, based on a discussion about the criminal competence for the trial of electoral crimes and the common crimes related to them, in which it is decided whether the phenomenon of connection giving legitimacy should actually occur, giving to the Electoral Court the legitimacy to prosecute or separate the offenses and refer them to their respective jurisdictions. This resulted in the recent STF Statement No. 933. From this judgment, the main objective is to analyze the current court decisions in the Electoral Court of the city of Sousa, PB in order to verify whether this jurisdiction has judged or has been judging the crimes of different nature from the electoral related to it. Initially, the concepts concerning jurisdiction, competence, connection and continence must be defined to better understand the theme. Subsequently, a comparison should be made between the criminal jurisdiction of the common and special jurisdictions. And finally, from the survey conducted by this field research, conclude the problematic of this research. Therefore, the deductive analysis method was adopted from a qualitative research under bibliographic-documentary investigation. The purpose of the specialization of the Brazilian Justice is highlighted, whose main purposes are the accomplishment of the due legal process and the procedural speed. Finally, it’s highlighted the socio-legal contribution of this research, while elucidating a legal controversy, demonstrating not only the position of the Sousa’s legal operators, but the related implications and effects.