Marco Aurélio grants HC to Eduardo Cunha, but he remains in prison No criminal formed Marco Aurélio grants HC to Eduardo Cunha, but the former MP is still in prison

You have read 1 of 5 press releases of the month. Minister Marco Aurélio of the Federal Supreme Court granted Habeas Corpus to former federal MP Eduardo Cunha for failing to see the reasons for his death.

The decision of this Thursday (28/6) came from a pre-trial detention ordered by the Federal Court in Rio Grande do Norte, in June of last year, in an investigation into bribes. de-vin in exchange for the favor of Odebrecht and the OAS in the stadium Arena das Dunas for the 2014 World Cup.

Cunha will remain behind bars because of other mandates of Issued by the Federal Courts in Brasilia and Paraná. outside

In the motion to the STF, the defense of the alleged cbadado deputy unlawful constraint due to the excess of the duration of custody, which lasts more than one year. Marc Aurèle was in agreement with the arguments.

"He is imprisoned without fail: deprivation of liberty, during a disproportionate period, a person whose criminal responsibility has not been definitively declared, violates the principle of guilt," said the minister.

In Federal Court in Rio Grande do Norte, the proceedings are held in secret.

In the decision, the Minister stated that the HC does not prejudge any further defense claim (appeal in Habeas Corpus 98.053) pending before the Superior Court of Justice

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HC 158.157