A identificação criminal por perfil genético na persecução penal: uma análise sob a ótica do princípio do nemo tenetur se detegere e à luz do precedente Schmerber v. Califórnia

Abstract

The present article proposes an analysis about the criminal identification method introduced by Law nº 12.654/2012 and its consequences in the national legal system in the light of eventual conflicts with the nemo tenetur se detegere principle, and the possibility of the relativization the principle. The approach begins with a brief report about the criminal identification internationally and later with the development of the criminal identification in the Brazilian context, after the alterations brought about the Law nº 12.654/2012. Finally, it dedicates to the exposition of the American precedent Schmerber v. California, and examines the nemo tenetur se detegere principal in Brazilian law and the possibility of its relativization according to the American precedent.