Questão jurídica principal
Whether police interview protocols of co-accused women had to be removed from the file
Decisão extraída
No. The protocols remained usable; Art. 147 StPO did not bar reliance on police interrogations in the way argued, and no confrontation request had been made.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that the defense could not invoke participation rights to exclude police interrogations, especially since the women had been dispensed from attending the first-instance hearing.