In the first degree sentence, Judge ledir Dias de Araújo stressed that journalistic criticism are sustainable and encourage people to form their opinions, but can not randomly or falsely impute crime to someone.

"It remained proven abuse committed by the defendant to expose your opinion about the author's person, to relate it to the authorship of this book and also extremely offensive way, which entails the duty to indemnify.".

[14] In the lawsuit, the judge rejected on the involvement of Paul Black with receiving stolen jewelry (to have been published in the ABC newspaper Diario days earlier), for calling his name to Operation Sand Castle on the case of Ring Road.

Judge Lindalva Soares Silva, of the 44th Civil Court of Rio de Janeiro, set at $20,000 the amount to be paid by blogger for damages made in an interview with Unity, the Syndicate of Journalists of.

Freedom of expression continues to judge, "can not break away from the standards of civilized coexistence, mutual respect, can they generate embarrassment of situations through disproportionate words, although tied to criticism.