During past two decades a variety of SAW based wireless sensors were invented and research is still in progress. As different frequencies, varied bandwidths, coding techniques and constantly changing post processing algorithms are being implemented, there is a constant need for a universal and adjustable synchronous communication system able to interrogate new generations of SAW sensors. This thesis presents the design of a multiple FPGA based communication system with an operational frequency range of 450MHz-2.2GHz capable of producing user programmed modulated signal. The synchronous receiver is designed to have interchangeable chip, replacement of which would allow adjustment of the receiver’s bandwidth. Within this paper the performance of the system is only evaluated at 915MHz centered 20MHz bandwidth region. An OFC temperature sensor was interrogated. Post-processing algorithms, measurement results, and proposals for the future use of the system are presented. Detailed overview of the structure and performance of every functional block along with design considerations are analyzed. Previously designed Matlab based software was adapted for post processing of the received signal. New software with simplified GUI was designed for programming of the desired signal.

Syftet med denna studie är att analytiskt granska och undersöka de legala aspekter som uppstått i samband med kriget mot terrorismen. Bush-administrationens juridiska argumentation kring praktikerna indefinite detentions och enhanced interrogation techniques står i fokus. Genom att använda en juridisk metod undersöks det huruvida argumentationen är förenlig med internationell rätt för att fastställa praktikernas legala status. Vidare utrönas det genom detta förfarande huruvida praktikerna kan uppnå en juridisk kodifiering internationellt och på sätt bringa ett paradigmskifte av rättfärdiga metoder inom den moderna krigsföringen. Den juridiska analysen påvisar att praktikerna ej är förenliga med internationell rätt och strider mot regleringar inom både den humanitära rätten och mänskliga rättigheter. Slutsatsen är att den amerikanska juridiska argumentationen av indefinite detentions och enhanced interrogation techniques ej kan uppnå någon juridisk kodifiering internationellt och således ej heller bringa något paradigmskifte av rättfärdiga metoder inom den moderna krigsföringen. / The purpose of this study is to analytically review and examine the legal aspects arising in connection with the war on terrorism. The Bush-administration’s legal arguments on the practices indefinite detentions and enhanced interrogation techniques are in focus. By using a legal method it will be examined whether the arguments is consistent with international law to determine the practices legal status. Furthermore, it is ascertained thru this procedure whether the practices can achieve a legal codification internationally and in that way bring a paradigmatic shift of righteous methods in modern warfare. The legal analysis demonstrates that the practices are inconsistent with international law and in conflict with regulations in both humanitarian law and human rights. The conclusion is that the American legal reasoning regarding indefinite detentions and enhanced interrogation techniques cannot achieve any legal codification internationally and thus not bring any paradigmatic shift of righteous methods in modern warfare.

This paper assesses U.S. national security policies in surveillance, detention, interrogation and torture, and targeted killing to determine whether they comport with international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The U.S. is responsible for adhering to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Geneva Conventions. These human rights law documents can be understood through court decisions, congressional statutes, and widely accepted interpretations from organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the UN Human Rights Council. Further, this paper offers prescriptions on how international human rights law and international humanitarian law can be updated to better deal with the current war on terror. / text

Les chercheurs s’étant penchés sur les facteurs influençant la décision du suspect de confesser son crime ont mis en évidence que deux facteurs sont principalement influents : la force de la preuve (Des Lauriers-Varin et St-Yves, 2006; Moston et al., 1992) et la conduite de l’enquêteur (Holmberg et Christianson, 2002; Kebell et al., 2005). Par contre, les contradictions entre ces études ont apporté davantage de confusion que de réponses à la pratique. Cette étude vise donc à explorer l’incidence de ces deux facteurs sur l’inclination du suspect à confesser son crime et les possibles interactions entre eux. Pour ce faire, 50 enregistrements vidéo d’interrogatoires d’homicide furent visionnés et les données furent soumises à des analyses statistiques et qualitatives. Les résultats d’une régression logistique démontrent que la conduite de l’enquêteur est le facteur prédominant pour prédire l’obtention d’aveux du suspect en contrôlant pour l’effet des variables statiques et de la preuve. Également, les résultats mettent en évidence qu’en augmentant les attitudes et comportements associés à une conduite « positive », l’enquêteur augmentait les probabilités d’aveux du suspect. De plus, les résultats indiquent que l’augmentation du nombre d’éléments de preuves est associée à une plus grande démonstration de « rapport de force » de la part de l’enquêteur. Les résultats sont discutés en relation à l’effet des principaux facteurs sur les schémas et dynamiques prenant place entre l’enquêteur et le suspect. / The studiess on factors influencing a suspect’s decision to confess his crime during a police questioning, reveal that the strength of evidence (Moston et al., 1992 and Des Lauriers-Varin and St-Yves, 2006) and the detective’s behaviour (Holmberg et Christianson, 2002 et Kebell et al., 2005) are considered key factors. However, past studies show notable contradictions. The present work focuses on the role of the two aforementioned factors, in the suspect’s decision to confess a crime and the potential interaction effect among them. The data were obtained by visioning and analyzing 50 questionings of a suspect linked to a homicide investigation. The logistic regression’s results show that the detective’s behaviour is the predominant factor in obtaining a confession from a suspect. Theses results are maintained when both the characteristic of the suspect and the weight of evidence are controlled for. Moreover, our results suggest that a “positive” attitude from the detective’s part is associated with a greater propensity toward confessing. Also, the results indicate that the greater available evidence to support the case, will translate into more “dominant” style of questioning from the detectives. The results are discussed in relation to the effects of the different dynamics taking place between the detective and the suspect during the questioning.

Le présent mémoire cherche à déterminer s’il existe des facteurs qui conduisent aux aveux chez les agresseurs sexuels durant un interrogatoire. Dans ce but, notre étude est basée sur 183 dossiers d’agression sexuelle traités par le Service de police de la Ville de Montréal. Les 137 participants qui ont fait une ou deux victimes (un dossier par victime) étaient âgés de 15 à 71 ans au moment du crime, et sont majoritairement francophones, caucasien et sans emploi. Toutes les variables sélectionnées ont été divisées en trois catégories : les caractéristiques de l’agresseur, les caractéristiques du crime et les caractéristiques contextuelles de l’interrogatoire. Les agresseurs sexuels qui ont avoué leur crime avaient les caractéristiques suivantes : caucasien, célibataire, n’ayant pas utilisé la menace ni causé de blessures, la victime était un garçon ou une femme adulte. Il n’y avait, contre eux, ni preuves matérielles ou biologiques, ni présence de sperme sur la victime, et il n’y a pas eu de séance d’identification. De plus, ils ont subi plusieurs interrogatoires, souvent dans un bureau privé en présence d’un seul interrogateur, qui n’est pas l’enquêteur principal, mais ils ont écrit et signé leur déclaration. Ces résultats devraient aider les policiers à cibler les facteurs les plus favorables aux aveux tout en montrant qu’il s’agit généralement d’un ensemble de facteurs qui conduisent les agresseurs sexuels aux aveux lors d’un interrogatoire. / This study seeks to determine whether there are factors that lead to the confession in sex offenders, during an interrogation. For this purpose, the study is based on 183 cases of sexual abuse handled by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal. The 137 participants who made one or two victims (one file for each victim) were aged from 15 to 71 years old at the time of crime, and are mostly French-speaking, Caucasians and unemployed. All selected variables were divided into three categories: characteristics of the sex offender, characteristics of the crime and characteristics of the context of the interviews. Sex offenders who have confessed their crime had the following characteristics: Caucasian, unmarried, who did not use threat, who did not commit injuries and their victim was a young male or an adult female. Against them, there were no physical evidence, nor biological evidence, nor the presence of semen on the victim, and there was no identification parade. In addition, they have had several interviews, often in a private office with a single interrogator who isn’t the principal inspector, but they wrote and signed their statement. These results should help the police to identify the factors most favorable to confession, showing that it’s usually a combination of factors that lead sex offenders to confession during an interrogation.

This thesis deals with problems of employee satisfaction and various factors affecting it. The work consists of two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is devoted to the analysis of literature. Deals with different concepts and contexts that are important to employee satisfaction. The practical part is already focused on the specific characteristics of the staff at the company, ČSOB, a.s., having a major impact on employee satisfaction as a system of remuneration, incentive system, carrer growth opportunities, training and development and labor relations in enterprises. There is also an outside its own questionnaire, processing and evaluation of data and final discussion of results.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo produzir uma tradução comentada, do alemão para o português, de uma seleção de documentos emblemáticos da resistência alemã ao Nacional-Socialismo. O corpus constitui-se especificamente de registros escritos dos interrogatórios (em alemão: Verhörprotokolle, protocolos de interrogatório) conduzidos em fevereiro de 1943 pela Polícia Secreta Nazista com os irmãos Hans e Sophie Scholl. Ambos eram integrantes do grupo A Rosa Branca, formado sobretudo por estudantes da Universidade de Munique que se opuseram ao regime nacional-socialista através da produção e distribuição de panfletos, nos quais lançavam críticas incisivas ao regime e à postura apática da população alemã perante os crimes cometidos pelo Estado. Tendo em vista o objetivo geral do trabalho e a conjuntura histórica em que se insere o corpus, partiu-se na análise e tradução dos protocolos de uma base teórica interdisciplinar, pautada tanto em elementos da pesquisa historiográfica quanto em pressupostos dos Estudos Funcionais da Tradução sobretudo no modelo de análise textual e tradução de Christiane Nord (1988, 2009) , da Linguística Textual e da Análise do Discurso. Para a tradução comentada dos protocolos, produto final deste trabalho, previu-se desde o início uma função documental, a qual justifica diversas microdecisões tomadas ao longo do processo tradutório. Elas vão desde a opção por reproduzir a formatação original dos textos de partida em alemão até a busca por reconstituir seu pano de fundo histórico por meio de comentários e imagens, inseridos propositalmente na margem direita e não no rodapé ou no fim da tradução. Espera-se, assim, que os textos traduzidos possam ser consultados, lidos e analisados como documentos e testemunhos sobre a resistência alemã ao Nacional-Socialismo, tema ainda pouco divulgado e estudado no Brasil. / This study aims to produce a commented translation from German into Portuguese of a selection of iconic documents of the German resistance to the National Socialism. The corpus is specifically consisted of written records of the interrogations (in German: Verhörprotokolle, interrogation protocols) conducted in February 1943 by the Nazi Secret Police with the brothers Hans and Sophie Scholl. Both were members of the group The White Rose, mostly comprised of students from the University of Munich who opposed the National Socialist regime by producing and distributing pamphlets in which they released incisive criticism to the government and apathetic posture of the German population before the crimes committed by it. Bearing in mind the overall aim of the work and the historical context to which the corpus belongs, an interdisciplinary theoretical basis was used in the analysis and translation of the protocols, based both in the historical research elements and on suppositions of the Functional Translation Studies especially in the model for translation-oriented text analysis by Christiane Nord (1988, 2009) , Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. For the commented translation of the protocols, the end product of this research, a documentary function was envisaged from the beginning, which justifies different micro decisions taken throughout the translation process, ranging from the choice of reproducing the original formatting of the source texts in German to the search for reconstituting the historical background of the source texts by means of comments and images intentionally inserted on the right edge of the page, and not in footnotes or at the end of the translation. It is, therefore, expected that the translated texts can be consulted, read and analyzed as documents and testimonies of the German resistance to the National Socialism, a subject still little publicized and studied in Brazil.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:26:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcia Caceres Dias Yokoyama.pdf: 787524 bytes, checksum: e05abda79ee5e37b0856957f755a777d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-11-07 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The modern Criminal Lawsuit has the remarkable characteristic of looking at the imputed person as someone who has rights, to privilege the biggest principle of the human being, conquered gradually. To start from the comprehension of the basis of the right to the silence, campared to the guided principle of the Democratic State of Right, emanates the logical of the doctrinal, the Legislator and the applicator of right to get together in order to give an exact application to the institute and its correspondings. The interrogation of an accused in a penal lawsuit, chance for him to be heard by the authority to present his version of the facts and to exercise his right of self-defense, since the old times, has changed a lot in its penal lawsuit system according to the ideological-social-cultural mentality of the historical moment. But the evolution of Science and Philosophy made new methods of investigation to come out. The accused started to be seen not as an evidence object but as someone who had rights. The right to remain silent started to be accepted as assurance of privacy and mainly as deduction of the principle against the self-incrimination. The study of principles which honor the right of being silent and its reflexes, and also of the investigation, makes evident the need of a discussion around the subject. It happens through the right of information, the supposed innocence, the contradiction, the wide defense, the prohibition of illicit evidences. The right to remain silent extends to all inquired person at the moment of his prision and in another case, by public officers, and also in the police investigation phase, in the instruction of the penal lawsuit and of parliamentary and administrative procedures, even when he is the witness or concerning to self-incriminative facts. So, it works in every moment that the inquired individual finds himself in front of answers which can harm him. It s a subjective public right that prevents disadvantageous interpretations against the one who is remaining silent. For its full exercise, it is necessary the information of this right to the titular and its extension as an exercise of free and aware will. The right of not being obliged to prove against himself permits to the accused not to help in producing evidences, translation of the right to preserve the privacy and inertness and specially the imputed person s spontaneous acts. And this work treats all this complexity in a unpretentious way / O moderno direito processual penal tem a destacada característica de avistar o imputado como sujeito de direitos a privilegiar o princípio maior da dignidade da pessoa humana, conquistado paulatinamente. A partir da compreensão do fundamento da garantia do direito ao silêncio, em cotejo com os princípios norteadores do Estado Democrático de Direito, emana a lógica da consonância do doutrinador, legislador e operador do direito de unirem-se para dar uma exata aplicação ao instituto com suas vertentes. O interrogatório do acusado no processo penal, oportunidade em que será ouvido pela autoridade para apresentar sua versão dos fatos e exercer seu direito de autodefesa, desde os tempos remotos, sofreu grandes alterações na sistemática processual de acordo com a mentalidade ideológico-social-cultural do momento histórico. Mas a evolução da ciência fez surgir novos métodos de investigação. O acusado passou a ser visto não como objeto da prova, mas como sujeito de direitos. O direito de silenciar passou a ser aceito como garantia da intimidade e, principalmente, como corolário do princípio contra a autoincriminação. O estudo dos princípios que prestigiam o direito ao silêncio e seus reflexos, bem como do interrogatório, evidencia a necessidade de debater o tema. Realiza-se através do direito à informação, da presunção de inocência, do contraditório, da ampla defesa, da proibição de provas ilícitas. O direito ao silêncio estende-se a toda pessoa questionada no momento da sua prisão e fora desta, por agentes públicos, bem assim na fase investigativa policial, na instrução do processo penal e dos procedimentos parlamentares e administrativos, mesmo quando estiver na qualidade de testemunha quanto a fatos auto-incriminatórios. Cabe em todo momento em que o indivíduo perquirido vê-se diante de respostas que possam prejudicá-lo. Trata-se de direito público subjetivo impeditivo da interpretação desfavorável contra aquele que silencia. Para seu pleno exercício, faz-se necessária a informação tanto deste direito ao titular como da amplitude de seu alcance como exercício da vontade livre e consciente, para que possa ser exercido plenamente. O direito de não ser obrigado a fazer prova contra si permite ao imputado não colaborar na produção da prova, tradução do exercício do direito de preservação da intimidade e inércia e, sobretudo, do agir espontâneo do imputado. É essa a complexidade tratada no presente trabalho

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:27:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Eduardo Guilherme.pdf: 2681683 bytes, checksum: 7eb6e26e6c1d133e5c03cea20fb69523 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-14 / The modernization of the instruments to impose the law is an imposing need, under penalty of the Judiciary becomes only a distant and abstract symbol. In face of the technological advances, the Brazilian legal procedure needs to reconsider its paradigms. The Judiciary needs to use in its everyday the new technologies, otherwise, the accumulation of jobs and the delay in the jurisdictional performance will prevail, in clear detriment to the principle of procedural speed. The contents and strategies used in the providing of public utilities must be in tune with the new technological reality and with the need dos respondents. Thus, the modification to the rites and legal procedural procedures are necessary throughout the time, constant update in a society where the information changes at a blazing speed. In face to the speed and the increasing need of the individual to receive the jurisdictional performance, the legal procedure must also change together with the development of the society.Using videoconferences in the legal proceedings can be an enormous technological success, as it consists of the technical feasibility to carry out remote hearings, since the view, listening and communication are assured and it is possible to record them in compact disc, and attach them to the records for further consultation. Used to carry out interrogations prevent the prisoner to be required to appear in court. The defendant is inquired in the tele-hearing room of the own prison facilities where the prisoner is waiting for the trial. In the de tele-hearing room there are audio and video channels available for the defendant to communicate in private with his/her attorney, who is in the hearing room of the court, without affecting the interview with other attorney that assists him/her in the prison where remains imprisoned. However, it is necessary to assess if in case the prisoner interrogation by videoconference in the Brazilian prisons can be carried out according to the Brazilian criminal procedure, such procedure should not infringe the constitutional principle of legal defense, set forth in section 5th, clause LV, of the current Brazilian Federal Constitution. It is impossible to be a Government of Law which criminal procedural rules are away from the Constitution. The interpreter must attempt to apply the law in the no actual case, taking as an assumption the analysis of the Federal Constitution, then, the sub-constitutional law regarding the subject must be consulted / A modernização dos instrumentos de realização da justiça é uma necessidade que se impõe, sob pena do Poder Judiciário tornar-se apenas um símbolo distante e abstrato. Diante do avanço tecnológico, o processo penal brasileiro precisa repensar seus paradigmas. Há a necessidade do Poder Judiciário utilizar no seu cotidiano as recentes tecnologias, pois, caso contrário, o acúmulo de serviços e a demora na prestação jurisdicional irão prevalecer, em evidente prejuízo ao princípio da celeridade processual. Os conteúdos e as estratégias utilizadas na prestação dos serviços públicos devem ter conexão com a nova realidade tecnologia e com a necessidade dos jurisdicionados. Desta forma, a modificação dos ritos e procedimentos processuais penais se impõe ao longo do tempo, atualização constante numa sociedade em que a informação se transforma numa velocidade extraordinária. Diante da rapidez e da necessidade cada vez maior dos cidadãos em receber a prestação jurisdicional, o processo penal também deve mudar acompanhando o desenvolvimento da sociedade. A utilização da videoconferência no processo penal poderá ser um enorme sucesso tecnológico, pois consiste na viabilidade técnica para realização de audiências à distância, garantidas a visão, audição, comunicação e facultada a gravação em compact disc, a ser anexado aos autos para consulta posterior. Utilizada para realização do interrogatório evita que o preso seja requisitado para comparecer em juízo. O réu é interrogado na sala de teleaudiência da própria unidade prisional onde se encontra preso aguardando julgamento. Na sala de teleaudiência o réu tem acesso a canais de áudio e vídeo para comunicação reservada com seu defensor, que se encontra na sala de audiências do juízo, sem prejuízo de entrevista com outro defensor que lhe assiste no presídio onde permanece recolhido. No entanto, tornar-se necessário analisar se caso o interrogatório de presos por videoconferência nas unidades prisionais nacionais pudesse ser realizado no processo penal brasileiro, tal procedimento não violaria o princípio constitucional da ampla defesa, previsto no artigo 5º, inciso LV, da atual Constituição Federal Brasileira. Não é possível existir um Estado de Direito cujas normas processuais penais estejam distanciadas da Constituição.O intérprete deve buscar a aplicação do direito no caso concreto, sempre tendo como pressuposto o exame da Constituição Federal, depois, sim, deve ser consultada a legislação infraconstitucional a respeito do tema

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No. of bitstreams: 1 uso_referentes.pdf: 801699 bytes, checksum: 1a406fd46380fa9fe03f3d86e61e0ea2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-01-12 / Nenhuma / Este estudo, amparado pela abordagem teórico-analítica oferecida pela Análise da Conversa (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974) de perspectiva etnometodológica (GARFINKEL, 1967), em combinação com métodos etnográficos (O?REILLY, 2009), focaliza a descrição do uso de referentes pessoais (STIVERS, 2007; STIVERS et al., 2007) e de lugar (SACKS, 1992; SCHEGLOFF, 1972; PSATHAS, 1991) e o uso de formulações (SACKS; GARFINKEL, 1970; HERITAGE, 1995; WALKER, 1995; HERITAGE; WATSON, 1979; DREW, 2003; GAFARANGA; BRITEN, 2004; HUTCHBY, 2005; ANTAKI et al., 2005) por profissionais do Direito em interações face-a-face com réus/rés,vítimas e testemunhas em interrogatórios na corte. Profissionais do Direito, nesse caso, são um juiz, uma juíza, três promotores e nove advogados de defesa. Os dados constituem 59 interrogatórios gravados em áudio realizados no fórum de uma cidade da região metropolitana de Porto Alegre. A coleta foi conduzida entre agosto e novembro de 2008. Dos interrogatórios analisados, 31 foram presididos por um juiz e 28 por uma juíza. Dos interrogatórios presididos pelo juiz, 27 aconteceram em audiências de instrução e quatro em audiências do Tribunal do Júri. Todos os interrogatórios presididos pela juíza aconteceram em audiências de instrução. A discussão possui dois focos analíticos. O primeiro foco analítico debruça-se sobre as ações interacionais que os profissionais do Direito realizaram por meio do uso de referentes pessoais e de lugar, a saber: a) cruzar as versões providas por diferentes depoentes acerca do mesmo crime; b) retroalimentar o interrogatório por meio de perguntas que demandam a identificação de terceiras pessoas; c) lidar com a intersubjetividade (HERITAGE, 1984) dos coparticipantes em situações nas quais a base comum de reconhecimento acerca de "quem é quem" e de "como é o local" mostra-se comprometida. O segundo foco analítico concentra-se nas ações interacionais empreendidas pelos participantes profissionais via formulação, quais sejam: a) checar entendimento de forma a atender a agenda institucional que prevê o registro das informações providas pelos depoentes; b) gerenciar a agenda profissional por meio do movimento interacional de fechar um tópico e abrir outro de forma a cobrir os assuntos relevantes para o interrogatório em curso; c) confrontar as versões providas pelos depoentes; d) incitar o depoente a vocalizar alguma informação que se mostra relevante para o processo de forma que o dito se torne documentável de acordo com os procedimentos requeridos pela instituição; e) preencher o termo referencial mencionado, mas não explicitado, pelo depoente. Ainda com relação ao uso de formulações, a análise das interações revela que os participantes profissionais distribuem as formulações ao longo do interrogatório em dois formatos, a saber: a) uma série de formulações que desencadeia uma formulação "ulterior" e b) uma formulação disposta após uma "suposta" satisfação dada pelo participante profissional. O estudo evidencia que tanto o uso de referentes pessoais e de lugar quanto a prática de formular exercem papéis importantes nas interações de natureza jurídica e se mostram, em algumas ocasiões, essenciais para o andamento do interrogatório e, consequentemente, para o processo jurídico como um todo. / This study, supported by Ethnomethodological (GARFINKEL, 1967) Conversation Analysis theoretical-analytical approach (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974) combined with ethnographic methods (O’REILLY, 2009), focuses on the description of person reference (STIVERS, 2007; STIVERS et al., 2007), place reference (SACKS, 1992; SCHEGLOFF, 1972; PSATHAS, 1991), and formulation usage (SACKS ; GARFINKEL, 1970; HERITAGE, 1995; WALKER, 1995; HERITAGE; WATSON, 1979; DREW, 2003; GAFARANGA; BRITEN, 2004, HUTCHBY, 2005; ANTAKI et al., 2005) b y Law professionals in face-to-face interactions with defendants, victims, and wit nesses in court interrogations. The law professionals who participated in this study are two judges (one male one female), three prosecutors, and nine defense lawyers. The data comprise 59 audio-recorded interrogations which took place in a criminal court located in a metropolitan area in Southern Brazil. Data collection was carried out between August and November of 2008. Of the analyzed interrogations, 31 were chaired by the male judge and 28 were chaired by the female judge. Of the interrogatories presided by the male judge, 27 took place in examining hearings and four in Jury Trials. All of the interrogatories chaired by the female judge took place in examining hearings. The discussion has two analytical focuses. The first one deals with the interactional actions Law professionals achieved through the use of person and place references, which are: a) to cross-examine the versions provided by different deponents related to the same crime; b) to feedback the interrogatory through questions which demand third person identification; c) to deal with coparticipants' intersubjectivity (HERITAGE, 1984) when the shared recognition concerning “who is who” and “what place we are talking about” seems jeopardized. The second analytical focus concentrates on the interactional actions implemented by professional participants via formulation, which are: a) to check understanding as to attend the institutional agenda requirement of recording the pieces of information provided by the deponents; b) to manage the professional agenda through the interactional move of closing a topic and opening other as to cover the relevant subjects for the current interrogatory; c) to confront the deponents’ versions; d) to invite the deponent to vocalize some piece of information which appears relevant to the process in such a way that what has been said becomes recordable according to the procedures required by the institution; e) to fill in the referential term alluded to but not made explicit by the deponent. The interactional analysis also reveals that the distribution format of formulations during the interrogatory takes two different formats: a) a sequence of formulations that culminates in an “ulterior” formulation and b) a formulation displayed after an “alleged” accountability provided by the professional participant. The study makes clear that both the person and place reference usage and the formulation practice play important roles in juridical-type interactions and shows them, on some occasions, to be essential for the interrogatory development and, consequently, for the juridical process as a whole