Tribunal do Júri : a influência da mídia nas decisões do Conselho de Sentença.

Abstract

The present work aims to study the “Media’s influence on Jury Court”. Based on doctrines, articles and up to date literature, the objective is to study all aspects that involve this theme, as well as to bring answers to the hypothesis of the problem discussed in the Project of the Undergraduate Thesis. To do that, a bibliographic research methodology was conducted, which consists in reading books and articles, registration and comparison of theories from the main authors of Law about this problem. Based on the assumption that the media influence on the juries with no legal technical knowledge (lay) members of the institution of the Jury Court is evident. Nowadays, the mass media, especially newspapers, TV channels and internet, besides being opinion formers, they also build a discursivization of the Law. Furthermore, considering the main aspects of the literature the “Media’s influence on Jury Court”, this topic has been gaining space among the main Law authors of our country, taking into account that this influence is getting more and more evident, which puts at risk the juries impartiality, and goes against the defendant’s principle of the presumption of innocence and the right to privacy.