Marcos Rogério: Does due process now occur within WhatsApp groups, no longer in the case files?
Marcos Rogério: Ladies and Gentlemen Senators, the Federal Constitution is clear: "no one shall be prosecuted or sentenced except by the competent authority."
That is what we call the principle of the natural judge, but what we see is the suppression of that guarantee — with the centralization of cases in chambers previously chosen for convenience, affinity or ideological alignment, God knows why — and the exception becoming the rule.
Marcos Rogério: And it does not stop there — it does not stop there!
Marcos Rogério: (The bell rings.) Proceedings are opened ex officio, without initiation by the Public Prosecutor's Office, the true holder of the public criminal action.