The aim of this study dissertation is analyzing on mitigation of the presumption of innocence principle when confronted with types of criminality. In the empirical research, data were initially collected from police inquiry in the year 2009 from Recife city, related to crimes investigations against public administration obtained from Specialized Police Department for Repression Crime against Public administration and the theft crimes investigations recorded by the Specialized Police Department of Theft Repression, analyzing later the evolution of this inquiry during lawsuit, collected from Pernambuco Justice Tribunal (TJPE) site, studying the relation between presumption of innocence principles and protective measures differed, the temporal limits related with the verdict of first degree, the appeals, temporal limits related with the process in judgment, the media divulgation by the facts and
investigated persons were informations obtained from google research, doing a initial screening of indicted persons. The literature review and the statistical Boolean/method were
applied in the methodology. The research qualitative analysis allowed to demonstrating the mitigation of this principle in a different way, according to the violent grave criminality or not violent grave criminality. The truth and justice aspects, the construction and development of the presumption of innocence principle, as well as the decisions utility were studied in the literature review founded in legal dogmas. The media communication way of control and act, the collision of fundamental rights and the presumption of innocence principle relation, besides the connection of the selectivity criminality and its connection with violent grave criminality and not violent grave criminality are also analyzed.
