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Clarification of ruling about Sean Goldman's testimony

Brazilian journalists are jumping to fast conclusions and are misleading foreign journalists. This post explores the most recent legal actions in Brazil. What Silvana did was to file a chain of petitions of habeas-corpus challenging Judge Pinto's ruling and claiming, one must assume, that Judge Pinto's ruling unlawfully restrained Sean's liberty. The penultimate habeas corpus in that chain was denied by the President of the STJ (the Superior Court of Justice above TRF-2). Then Silvana filed an Habeas Corpus in the STF (Federal Supreme Court) against the President of the STJ, claiming that his ruling was an unlawful restriction of Sean's liberty. That new Habeas Corpus was now rejected.

Full post as published by Updates in Michigan Family Law on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).