A influência da mídia nas decisões do tribunal do júri brasileiro.

Abstract

The study intends to observe the system of this court; to dissert about freedom of choice, press freedom, the legislative advances occasioned by the media, by the Media Law , and how all these interfere in the public opinion , affecting constitutional guarantees and generating the confrontation between fundamental rights of citizens. Taking this approach as a starting point, the following problematization is highlighted for the research: Is the media coverage, when disseminating news related to intentional crime against life, capable of influencing criminal trials and, more specifically, the decision to be taken by the jury in the Jury Court? Hypothetically, there is an affirmative answer. Therefore, it can be seen that, after studying thoroughly the media’s influence on the decisions of individual judges regarding the procedural imprisonment, thus deducing, the influence of this same media on the decisions of jury in the Jury Court. So, it is registered that the current scientific research aims generally to analyze the influence of the means of communication on the crime trials of the Jury Court’s jurisdiction. In order to attain the general objective the deductive method is used, as an approach and the historical and evolutional method was used as a procedure tool; as research techniques the bibliographical research and the indirect documental research were used. In face of the study, it is concluded that a clash between the freedom of press and presumption of innocence occurs, and in order to solve the conflict, the latter must prevail over the first, providing the accused with a fair trial, totally free from the media’s influences, demonstrating the necessary guarantee of the jurors free conviction, when judging the cases submitted to the Jury Court.