A prova em vídeo e o contraditório: uma análise discursiva de julgados de primeira instância da comarca de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The study challenges the analysis of three real-life case-law cases in which the first-degree judgment faced the video evidence issue. With a fulcrum in the thinking of Sherwin, Lassiter and Silbey on imagery persuasion, as well as in researches in the area and in the procedural contextualization of the video test in Brazilian law, it makes a detailed analysis of the adopted procedures, verifying if the contradictory is respected and in which The professionals of Brazilian law, related to the written, formal and bureaucratic tradition characteristic of civil law, are prepared to deal with images, of an eminently rhetorical nature. In conclusion, at least in the cases analyzed, the broad and effective contradictory was not and that the need for visual literacy remains latent in the practices undertaken.