Evandro Cavalcanti Lins e Silva (18 January 1912 – 17 December 2002) was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, writer and politician. He was Prosecutor General of the Republic,

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, and Justice of the

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. He was also a lawyer of criminal affairs and taught criminal law in the then Guanabara State University (current

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(UERJ)). He was a member of the

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Biography

Evandro Lins e Silva is the son of Maria do Carmo Uchôa Cavalcanti and Raul Lins e Silva, both from

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. His mom was niece-granddaughter of justice João Barbalho Uchôa Cavalcanti. His father, a graduate from the

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(UFPE), made his career as a lawyer. Lins e Silva graduated at the

of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) on 19 November 1932. While a student, he worked as a journalist, which office kept even after graduating. As a lawyer, he specialized in criminal law and developed intense professional activity, until 1961, in the Jury Court, in criminal courts, in superior courts, and in the

, defending, moreover, countless trials of great repercussion, including in politics, before the National Security Court and the Militar Justice. In 1956, he was hired as professor of the Chair of Criminal Law History and Penitenciary Science, in the doctorate degree, in the Faculty of Law of the then Guanabara State, which he taught until 1961. He was one of the founders of the

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in 1947, alongside

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, Joel Silveira, and others. He was also

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and

in 1963. He held the position of Prosecutor General of the Republic between September 1961 and January 1962, and of Justice of the Supreme Federal Court between September 1963 and January 1969, when he was forced to retire because of the Institutional Act No. 5. He was member of the Federal Council of the

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(OAB) in many periods, between 1944 and 1961, and, after retired, between 1983 and 1995. He was one of the lawyers responsible for the ''impeachment'' request against president

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. As a writer, he published many books, such as ''A Defesa tem a Palavra'', ''Arca de Guardados'' and ''O Salão dos Passos Perdidos''. He also coined the expression

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( pt, legítima defesa da honra) to justify the murder of Ângela Diniz by his client Doca Street. Evandro Lins e Silva, despite his old age, was in good health. He died in an accident, on 17 September 2002, after hitting his head in a sidewalk. In

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, his birthplace, was constructed a memorial in his honor, with project signed by

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Brazilian Academy of Letters

Fifth occupant of the Chair No. 1, elected on 16 April 1998, succeeding Bernardo Élis and received on 11 August 1998 by Academic Josué Montello. Received the Academic

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on 17 September 2002. Evandro.jpg, Bust of Lins e Silva in the Justice Evandro Lins e Silva Palace (OAB Piauí). Palácio Evandro Lins e Silva.JPG, Justice Evandro Lins e Silva Palace,

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regional head office of the

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Biography

Brazilian Academy of Letters

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