The defense of former soccer player Robinho has filed a request to Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court to avoid his immediate arrest after a different court ruled that he must serve in Brazil a nine-year prison sentence for rape.
\nIn the request, the lawyers representing the former player for Santos, Manchester City, Real Madrid and AC Milan asked for an injunction to suspend Wednesday\u2019s decision by the country\u2019s top court for non-constitutional matters, that ruled that he must serve his sentence immediately.
\nA Milan court in 2017 found Robinho and five other Brazilians guilty of gang raping a 22-year-old Albanian woman after getting her drunk in a nightclub in 2013. The conviction was confirmed by an appeals court in 2020 and validated by Italy\u2019s Supreme Court in 2022.
\nThe Brazilian court did not reopen discussions about the rape conviction, focusing only on seeing if the sentence in Italy was valid in Brazil.
\nRobinho, whose full name is Robson de Souza, was free throughout the ratification process and \u201chas never represented a risk to the application of national legislation, so his freedom is rigorous until the final ruling of the matter,\u201d his lawyers said in his request.
\nThe lawyers argued that the decision violates jurisprudence from the Supreme Court, which would only land him in jail after all possible appeals have been concluded, adding that making the former footballer serve his sentence in his home country \u201cis in stark contradiction to the Constitution of the Republic.\u201d
\nAccording to his defense, at the time of the crime, there was no Brazilian law for serving a sentence issued in other countries, and that the law could not be retroactively enforced on him.
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Robinho’s defense has requested Brazil’s Supreme Court to prevent his immediate arrest following a ruling for him to serve a nine-year prison sentence in Brazil for rape. This comes after a Milan court in 2017 found him and five others guilty of gang raping a 22-year-old Albanian woman in 2013, a conviction confirmed by an appeals court in 2020 and Italy’s Supreme Court in 2022. The Brazilian court confirmed the validity of the Italian sentence in Brazil, focusing solely on its applicability rather than reopening the rape case. Robinho’s lawyers argue that his imprisonment contradicts both the Brazilian Constitution and Supreme Court jurisprudence, emphasizing that there was no Brazilian law at the time of the crime for enforcing foreign sentences, and such a law cannot be applied retroactively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[232,2870,932,21,336,419,2667,2121,591,2685,2069,131,1462,912,815,2871,836,421,168,618,1944],"class_list":["post-4965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-arrest","tag-brazil","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-football","tag-italy","tag-jail","tag-land","tag-lawyers","tag-legislation","tag-manchester-city","tag-prison","tag-prison-sentence","tag-rape","tag-real-madrid","tag-request","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sports","tag-supreme-court","tag-top","tag-woman"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n