Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the “Justice Time” program

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Daniela Lima da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Ponte, Liana da Mota, Aguiar, Lilian Bastos Ribas de, Accioly, Thomás Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ensino em Perspectivas
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/ensinoemperspectivas/article/view/7408
• topic: Homicídio; Sessão de julgamento; Comitê de governança; Monitoramento processual; Gestão processual; Murder; Jury Session; Governance Committee; Procedural monitoring; Reasonable Length of Process

As an answer to the volume of homicides in Ceara, the state government decided to increase the effectiveness of police investigations and to shorten the length of criminal lawsuits, by implementing, in 2017, the project “Time of Justice” as an instrument of institutional cooperation and  procedural management. In 2018, the Covid-19 pandemic compromised the execution of in-person judicial proceedings. This paper intends to present the program and point out the impacts of those restrictions about the project. In order to accomplish that result, it was executed a mixed method research, demonstrating the dynamics of the Jury Court and indicating how the steps of the discovery of evidence and of trial were impacted by the pandemic. By discussing the peculiarities of the Jury Court, it was concluded that the nature of Jury Courts conflicted with technological innovations that imply suppression of individual rights and guarantees of the defendant, which is why the risk management of the “Time of Justice” would require legal changes.