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Carlos Cruz made a request to review his sentence in the Casa Pia case, where he was sentenced to six years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor, the Express said. Since then, the information has been confirmed by his lawyer, Ricardo Sá Fernandes, to Lusa.
The request of the former television presenter, which will be evaluated by the Supreme Court of Justice (STJ), arises after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled, in June 2018, that Carlos Cruz was right to challenge the refusal of the Lisbon Court of Appeal to admit new evidence from the defense at the appeal stage of the case, considering that the accused did not have the right to a “fair trial”.
The statements of the former Casa Pia driver Carlos Silvino, who reversed the accusations made against Carlos Cruz and other defendants after they were convicted, are under discussion.
According to Ricardo Sá Fernandes, the decision can take between two and three months. For the lawyer, the request for review of sentence “is a shot that only happens once”, something that led him to “confirm thousands of documents and listen to dozens of hours of recordings” to make sure he was “absolutely safe” from that I was going to present.
The lawyer defends the former television presenter and says he lives “in the hope that his name will be cleared up.” “Carlos Cruz lives for this, to see his name restored. He has had several illnesses and what keeps him alive is the hope of seeing his name clear. Carlos Cruz had nothing to do with the abuses or with the Casa Pia process. . He is a completely innocent man whose life was destroyed, ”he stressed.
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