Ana Lúcia Pastore Schritzmeyer

Getting to know the Brazilian Federal Jury Court

Despite the many studies on the Jury Court in Brazil, there is a gap in relation to the Juries that take place within the scope of Federal Justice and, therefore, on intentional crimes against life, and others related to them, committed: 1. against or by a federal public official in the exercise of his or her duties, 2. in disputes over indigenous rights and 3. on board a ship or aircraft, subject to the jurisdiction of the Military Court (CF, 1988: art. 109, I, II, IV and IX). In an exploratory stage (first phase of the research) the idea is to create a database on the Federal Jury to be, in the next stage (second phase), perfected and fed, retrospectively and continuously. This will lead to the third stage (final phase) in which a Federal Jury Observatory will be created, capable of providing public information, both past and present, about the institution.