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TC_19940626 AI generated

Constitutional challenge dismissed due to subsequent amnesty making the norm's unconstitutionality moot.

Case Number TC_19940626
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Jurisdiction Portugal (PT)
Outcome Dismissed
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The Constitutional Court declared the unconstitutionality challenge moot and extinguished the proceedings. The Ministry of Public Prosecution argued the norm violated rights, but the lower court had already granted amnesty to the defendant under Article 1(f) of Law 15/94. The court ruled that since the penalty was nullified, the question of the law's unconstitutionality became irrelevant and the appeal was therefore useless.

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Article 1(f) of Law 15/94; Article 27 of Decree-Law 30/89: When a subsequent amnesty renders a penal sanction null and void, a constitutional challenge to the underlying norm becomes moot and must be dismissed as useless.

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subsequent amnesty mootness doctrine useless appeal constitutional challenge penal sanction nullity

Cited Legislation

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Article 1(f) of Law 15/94
Article 27 of Decree-Law 30/89
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Acórdão 626/94

ACÓRDÃO Nº 626/94

Procº nº 231/94

Rel. Cons. Alves Correia

Acordam na 2ª Secção do Tribunal Constitucional:

Nos presentes autos, vindos do Tribunal do Trabalho de Lisboa, em que figuram como recorrente o Ministério Público e como recorrida A., tendo em conta o despacho do Mmº Juiz de 9 de Junho de 1994, que julgou amnistiada, ao abrigo do artigo 1º, alínea f)f), da Lei nº 15/94, de 11 de Maio, a contra-ordenação imputada à recorrida, decide-se julgar extinto o recurso de constitucionalidade – cujo objecto é a questão da inconstitucionalidade da norma constante do artigo 27º do Decreto-Lei nº 30/89, de 24 de Janeiro -, por inutilidade superveniente.

Lisboa, 22 de Novembro de 1994

Fernando Alves Correia

Guilherme da Fonseca

Messias Bento

José de Sousa e Brito

Bravo Serra

Luís Nunes de Almeida