Lawyer criticizes the "cowardice of the Brazilian Bar Association in the face of Lava Jato abuses"

247 - Lawyer Gustavo Freire Barbosa states on the Justificante website that, "if the right to defense and due process are non-negotiable rights, so too are the prerogatives of the legal profession, an essential instrument not only so that lawyers can practice their profession without the hindrances and constraints characteristic of exceptional regimes, but also so that their clients, citizens, can see in the process what it classically represents: an instrument of guarantee, defense, and protection of the defendant."

"And what is expected of the representative body of the category when disrespect for the prerogatives of the legal profession begins to occur systematically? At the very least, a strong and forceful stance against magistrates who, in their patrimonialist outbursts, see themselves as private owners of judicial processes. This expectation, however, was not what we saw materialized in the embarrassing speech of President Cláudio Lamachia at the inauguration ceremony of the new president of the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region," he continues.

According to the lawyer, "the OAB's docility regarding the disrespect for constitutional guarantees in the context of Lava Jato is particularly alarming considering that the issue of prerogatives is religiously present in the electoral campaigns of both the state chapters and the Federal Council itself."

"In his speech, however, Lamachia formally praises the Regional Federal Court of the 4th Region for the importance it has acquired on the national stage as 'the reviewing court for the main ongoing judicial process in the country, and surely one of the most significant in Brazilian history.' He then adds: 'I am referring, obviously, to Operation Lava Jato,'" he said.

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