Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cassation court violated the right to be heard by relying on counsel's letter without hearing the accused.
Decisão extraída
Yes. Before treating counsel's assessment as credible and adverse to the accused, the court had to hear the accused because the decision affected his access to cassation review.
Fundamentação extraída
The letter was a decisive basis for the refusal to replace counsel and for dismissing the cassation proceeding. Under the right to be heard, the affected person must be allowed to comment before such an intervention.