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For the Fifth Panel of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), if the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) – the person in charge of the criminal action – has requested the acquittal of the defendant, as a rule, it is not up to the judge to convict him, under penalty of violating the accusatory principle and the separation between the functions of accusing and judging. The panel understood that, in order to counter the position of the MP, the conviction sentence must be founded in a particularly robust manner, with the indication of evidence capable of supporting this exceptional situation. AREsp 1.940.726 #jimmydeyglissonadvocacia #advocaciacriminal #direitcriminal #procedurecriminal #lawyer #lawyerlife #abogado #derechopenal #oab #advogado #criminalista #criminallawyer #stj