Lula da Silva "loses" 3 to 1 in the Brazilian court and a key decision will be made tomorrow

The Brazilian Supreme Court began to deliberate this Wednesday, Oct. 23, it is constitutional that a The second person sentenced begins serving his prison sentence before exhausting all his legal remedies. Sometimes a favorable decision modifying the current case law can lead to the freedom of many prisoners, including former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, serving a sentence of eight years and ten months in prison for corruption.

After the vote of four judges, three in favor of maintaining the current agreement and one against, the court suspended the session on Thursday, October 24, when they resume the discussion for the verdict that will be transmitted live, as indicated. AFP. Lula He is one of the prisoners of the operation "Lava Jato", who are behind the bars of the political leaders, businessmen and former leaders of the state Petrobras, during the revelation of a misappropriation plan.

The left-wing popular leader has been imprisoned since April 2018 in the premises of the federal police in Curitiba (south), after being convicted in the second instance, accused of benefiting from a triplex service on the coast of São Paulo, placed made available by a construction company involved in the case.

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In February, Lula was sentenced by another trial in the first instance to almost 13 years in prison for corruption and faces at least six other cases. However, the former president denies all charges and claims that they are part of a politico-judicial plot to prevent him from contesting the 2018 elections, during which time the president and the president of the country have been arrested. ultra-right was elected. Jair Bolsonaro.

Even if he were released, his legal situation would prevent him from resuming his political career, in accordance with the laws in force, which would veto the political participation of persons convicted in the second instance. However, this could change if the Supreme Court decides, in another pending case, that the former and the current Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro, who sentenced Lula at first instance in 2017, did not act impartially.

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This thesis was reinforced after the so-called messages revealed by the Brazilian edition of L & # 39; interception, a digital press medium of American origin between Moro and the prosecutors of Lava Jato, which suggests a certain intimacy between the two parties and which would have acted to keep him out of the electoral conflict.

Both Moro and the prosecutors deny pursuing this goal, but if the Supreme Court judges felt the trial was partial, Lula's sentence would be overturned and the process should resume. Determined to prove his innocence, Lula, who turns 74 on Sunday, recently refused to switch to a semi-open plan with the option of being placed under house arrest for serving one-sixth of his sentence.

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