O valor probatório da confissão realizada no inquérito policial e retratada em juízo

Abstract

The confession is the admission of guilt, by the defendant, of the imputation that is directed to it, being considered in the criminal proceeding as evidence. It is a retractable act, once the defendant can modify the content of the declarations given towards the competent authority. The present article aims the analysis of the probatory value of the confession carried through in the police inquest and later withdrawal in judgment. In order to do so, the methodology to be used will be the bibliographical revision. It will be concluded for the unfeasibility of the use of the confession not confirmed in the judgment of the defendant, once the extrajudicial confession when withdrawal in judgment not have probatory value for the criminal proceeding, therefore it will not exist confession to be valued in the sentence.