PCERJ Delegado De Polícia Practice Questions - Concurso PCERJ - Delegado De Polícia (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil) Exam

A more severe criminal statute (novatio legis in pejus) applies to continuous or permanent crimes if its enactment occurs prior to the cessation of continuity or permanency. The abolition of a crime (abolitio criminis) extinguishes all civil and administrative effects of a final penal conviction, including the obligation to repair civil damages. Temporary and exceptional criminal laws lose their ultra-active effect once their predetermined period of validity expires or the emergency situation ceases. A retroactively applied favorable criminal statute (lex mitior) cannot modify a criminal sentence that has already acquired the authority of res judicata (trânsito em julgado).