The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup.
A panel of five Supreme Court justices handed down the sentence just hours after they had convicted the former leader.
They ruled he was guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Weird that judges decide the verdict instead of a jury. Is that normal in Brazil? Seems very abusable.
Your pedophile insurrectionary ex-president is free and president again.
Ours was just condemned to 27 years in prison.
Are you really in a position to comment on our judiciary system?
Not because of juries lol. The issue is the corrupt political actors. If citizens had that power instead I believe it would have been different.
Normal in most countries. I wouldn’t trust jury of inept people to understand evidence provided to them.
I trust them more than corrupt politicians.
Are judges in the US elected? I know some are appointed. In some countries they are career public servants. They pass an exam and dispute with other candidates, so they are experts in their field that went in a public selection process.
Some are elected, yes. But at a certain level of power everyone becomes a politician.
In Brazil, only murder cases go to jury trial, but even then, it’s very different from the US. Here, jurors can interview witnesses and there’s no deliberations between them, they go one at a time to a room with the presiding judge and cast a secret ballot, simple majority convicts or not. All other crimes are decided by the judge from the bench.
Oh, and our judges don’t use gavels…
Good protection against Banksy …
Interesting, thanks for the information. I’m a big fan of jury trial personally but I hope that system works well for you.
Brazil uses civil law system like Europe… no need for juries
you realise that people can opt for a bench trial in the US?