As declarações do arguido e a estrutura acusatória do processo penal português

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Abstract:

Changes to the rules concerning the admissibility of statements read in trial, previously provided by the defendant, despite its apparent simplicity, undermine the criminal procedural architecture projected from the constitutional structure accusatory criminal procedure. The principle that in judging only can be valued the evidence produced before the judge gives rise the production of evidence by the prosecution in the investigation phase.

Key-words: statements of the accused, accusatory structure, principle of linking thematic, principle of immediacy, defense guarantees, early production of evidence.