Tribunal do júri: uma investigação acerca da influência da mídia no julgamento de elize matsunaga

Abstract

This project aims to make a brief analysis of the media influence in the trial of one of the crimes against life that had the most repercussions in Brazil: theYoki case, briefly discussing the Jury Court, its historical aspects and the principles that govern it. Due to the barbarity of the crime and because it involved a millionaire who was about to sell the family business for millions of dollars, the crime had numerous ramifications and, with each of them, the press covered the entire case in detail. Thus, if the media outlets produce their content in an impartial and sensationalist way, it is possible to question how this can influence the verdict given by the Sentencing Council, formed by jurors, who are lay people and who do not have the necessary legal and technical knowledge to an exempt judgment of the case. Thus, starting from the premise that media influence is a fact, the good technique that must be adopted by the defense to guarantee the defendants' rights is discussed here, as well as so that there is no complete interference of the content exposed by the media at the time of the jury's verdict. It is, therefore, a research developed from the dialectical and documental method.