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Portuguese Supreme Court upholds Article 123 of the Penal Code regarding the constitutionality of alternative fines and proportional reduction.

Case Number 035533
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Jurisdiction Portugal (PT)
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Outcome Dismissed
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The Supreme Court of Justice unanimously rejected the challenge to Article 123 of the Penal Code, which governs alternative fines. The petitioner argued the provision was unconstitutional, but the court found no defect in its application to all fines, including those substituting imprisonment. Consequently, the court ruled that the article remains valid and requires the corresponding prison term to be reduced to two-thirds when applied as an alternative punishment.

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PRISÃO ALTERNATIVA DA MULTA CONSTITUCIONALIDADE PROPORCIONALIDADE

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alternative fines constitutionality proportionality principle Penal Code Article 123 substitutive imprisonment constitutional challenge rejection

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Article 123 of the Penal Code
Article 200 of the Constitution

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[Nº CONVENCIONAL] JSTJ00008651

[Nº DO DOCUMENTO] SJ197906200355333

[PRIVACIDADE] 1

[REFERENCIA DE PUBLICACAO] BMJ N288 ANO1979 PAG267

[TEXTO INTEGRAL] N

[URL] https://www.dgsi.pt/jstj.nsf/954f0ce6ad9dd8b980256b5f003fa814/BACD81D8535CBACE802568FC0039C9D7?OpenDocument

SUMÁRIO

I - O artigo 123 do Codigo Penal não e inconstitucional, sendo aplicavel a todas as multas, mesmo a substitutiva da prisão.

II - Efectuada a equivalencia, nos termos do paragrafo 1 do artigo 123, havera em seguida, para a punição em alternativa, que aplicar a regra fixada no corpo do artigo, isto e, que reduzir a dois terços o correspondente tempo de prisão.