STJ Orders Oruam’s Release From Preventive Detention

Overview

• Minister Joel Ilan Paciornik granted a liminar revoking the rapper’s preventive custody and directed substitution with Article 319 precautionary measures to be defined by the first-instance judge.
• As of late Friday and into Saturday, the Rio penitentiary authority said it had not been officially notified, so implementation of the release order awaited formal publication.
• The decision faults the lower court’s generic rationale, notes Oruam’s primariness and voluntary surrender, and highlights that the 73 grams of cocaine cited do not, by themselves, justify pretrial jail.
• Criminal charges filed by the Rio state prosecutor’s office remain in force, including attempted homicide, bodily injury, resistance with violence, desacato, threat and damage to public property.
• The case stems from a July 21 police action at Oruam’s home in Joá, where videos show stones thrown at officers and an adolescent target escaped; he has been held since July 22 at Bangu.