Moro’s bias trial against … is postponed

The trial over former judge Sergio Moro’s bias in the cases against former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was postponed on Tuesday because one of the members of the court requested an intermission before voting . It was Judge Kassio Marques Nunes, the last magistrate appointed by President Jair Bolsonaro, who asked for more time to analyze the case which can overturn all the investigations and convictions against Lula for political persecution by Moro and the prosecutors of the operation Lava Jato.

The habeas corpus session which has been under discussion since 2018 had two votes to overturn the conviction and investigations against Lula by judges Gilmar Mendes and Ricardo Lewandoski, while Edson Fachin took a stand against her. In 2018, she voted against Carmen Lúcia Antunes, who can still change her vote, so she will define when Marques Nunes decides.

Rapporteur member of the case to Chamber II of the Supreme Federal Court, Gilmar Mendes fined Judge Moro $ 50,000 and considered Lava Jato a “Soviet court” with procedures typical of the Brazilian military dictatorship. According to the magistrate, the data revealed in recent years on the way in which Moro carried out the trials of Operation Lava Jato turned the case into “the biggest legal scandal in the history” of the country.

Tuesday’s session sought to overturn everything taken against Lula in the face of an apparent case of political persecution. If the Second Chamber decides that former Judge Moro, who fell out with Bolsonaro last year when he left government, lacked the necessary impartiality in the Lula case, jurists anticipate some sort of effect. domino by which many people sentenced to Lava Jato would try to use the ruling to overturn their proceedings.