Kakay: 'Moro will understand, by experiencing it firsthand, the importance of having a technical defense'
A criminal defense lawyer comments on the statement released by former minister Sergio Moro's defense team, in which he defends the principle of equal access to evidence and expresses surprise at not having full access to the documents obtained by the Attorney General's Office (AGU) in the investigation into Bolsonaro's interference in the Federal Police.
247 - Criminal defense attorney Antônio Carlos de Almeida Castro, known as Kakay, commented in a statement on positioning in which the defense of former minister Sergio Moro He defends the principle of parity of arms and expresses surprise at not having full access to the documents obtained by the AGU (Attorney General's Office) in an investigation at the Supreme Federal Court regarding Bolsonaro's interference in the Federal Police.
He recalls that Moro, as the judge in the Lava Jato case, "was always biased and never fully respected the right to defense," and that now "he will understand, by experiencing it firsthand, the importance of having a technical defense and seeing the Constitution upheld."
Read the full text of Kakay's statement and below is the note from Moro's defense:
Reading former minister Sergio Moro's defense of parity of arms, his claim of surprise at not having full access to the documents he refers to at the Attorney General's Office, and his demand for his right to defense to be respected is a gift to the democratic rule of law.
The former judge was always biased and never fully respected the right to a defense. A judge who never honored the Judiciary, frequently disrespecting the Federal Constitution. But, as the poet from Maranhão teaches, "life gives, denies, and takes away."
At this difficult time for Mr. Sérgio Moro, in which the former judge is being investigated and suffering the force of state power against him, even while maintaining the support of a large part of the media, it is necessary for all democrats and all lawyers to defend due process in its entirety.
The former judge, fortunately, has a great lawyer. And we want him, as a suspect, to have guaranteed all the rights he never guaranteed to the defendants in the cases in which he acted as a judge. We will all demand the fulfillment of constitutional guarantees, including the principle of presumption of innocence, against which he fought so hard.
If prosecuted and convicted, he should only serve his sentence after the final judgment and should not suffer the supreme embarrassment of unnecessary and arbitrary pre-trial detention.
The former judge will understand, through personal experience, the importance of having a technical defense and seeing the Constitution upheld.