Custody hearings in pandemic period: a analysis of the normative conduct of Rondoniense Judiciary
Keywords: Custody hearings; Covid-19 pandemic; Suspension of the custody hearings; Videoconference.
The present dissertation has the objective to understand the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the realization of presentials custody hearings, by the normative actuation of the Brazilian and Rondoniense Judiciary in relation to the institute in this period and how the Covid-19 containment measures impacted the realization of the right to custody hearing of prisoners. To alcance the objective, the research was developed in two stages: the elaboration of the normative mapping by the analysis of the content of the acts coming from the National Council of Justice and the State Court of Justice of Rondônia that disciplined about the custody hearings in the period from March 2020 to December 2022, and the normative evaluation of the main acts mapped in the first stage. The analysis of these instruments allows us to evaluate the successes and/or failures of the policy directed to custody hearings. In the end, it was found that two dynamics were presented with significant relevance in the period of the Covid-19 pandemic: the suspension of custody hearings with the return of the analysis of the document of prison in flagrant and their realization by videoconference.