O direito a não produzir prova contra si mesmo : aproximações entre os cases da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos e do Supremo Tribunal Federal

Abstract

The dissertation was developed during the Masters course conducted by the Postgraduate Program in Criminal Sciences - PUCRS, and is linked to the area of concentration Penal System and Violence and research of Contemporary Legal and Penal Systems line. The study analyzes the right to not produce evidence against himself and his filtering through the Constitution and the American Convention on Human Rights. In the first chapter are addressed characters of the State of postmodern law and the relationship between international organizations and domestic law. Some proposals are made for the realization of human rights together between domestic Judiciary and the International Court. In a second step, the work addresses the topic of nemo tenetur detegere is enjoying from its origin, through its essential characteristics, limits of protection and raising the legal guarantee of the human being as provided in the Constitution and in the Pact of San José - Costa Rica. In the third and final chapter, through the comparative method, are appreciated some decisions of the Supreme Court and compared with the decisions and opinions of the Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in relation to interrogation skills and providing documents. Finally, the points which are presented approach and the gap between what was decided by the two Courts.