Devido processo constitucional e a (in)efetividade das garantias processuais nos processos administrativos militares pós-1988: estado democrático de direito ou estado de exceção?

Abstract

The arbitrariness in administrative disciplinary military proceedings are a phenomenon that hás manifested itself in military institutions after the Constitution of 1988. Violations as: due process of law, legality, state of innocence, legal defense and contradictory, disproportionate punishments, lack of respect for human dignity, fairness and proportionality, among others, are common in the barracks. This study examines abuses in disciplinary proceedings in the Armed Forces and Auxiliary Forces, showing constitutional violations of the process in individual cases after (re) democratization through doctrinal and jurisprudential research. This fact becomes a puzzle, the puzzle of authoritarian legality, reverting the Democratic State of Law to a State Exception. The answer to that is the result of a conservative militarism, with the same tradition of the dictatorship period (1964-1985) in the XXI century, capsizing constitutional rights and guarantees of the process provided by the Constitution. Would it be a lack of transitional justice? The output of this authoritarian “legality” is awareness and respect for human rights inherent in man. What is sought is precisely the transition from the State of Exception by the Democratic State of Law, considering that without human rights recognized and effectively protected there is no democracy, and without democracy there is no minimum conditions for the peaceful settlement of conflicts that arise between individuals and between groups.