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.
Should be longer considering it’s a crime against the entire population of the nation.
20 years in many jurisdictions is a life sentence. The reason is, after 20 years, the world has changed so much, you got no idea what to do with your life.
Meanwhile Merrick Garland somewhere is sitting happy as a pig in shit.
I remember all the people on reddit in 2020 who were loudly insisting that Garland was just biding his time and making sure that the case against Trump was ironclad before moving against him. I’d say lol but it’s obviously not funny.
MORE OF THIS!
It’s nice to see traitors held accountable for their actions. Maybe one day the US will take note.
Now do Trump
No, we needed to heal and let him run again so he could finish the job of stealing the election.
We are still trying to heal from it. Maybe we need to give him a third term. Just rip up the constitution and use it as toilet paper (the actual one in Washington)
What a terrific idea
we should let him steal the washington monument to put his name on it and use as a buttplug (i did not check the base for flaring, please remove any flaring)
PAGEant pervert, nooo
27 years seems pretty lenient given what he was convicted of. I realise that he’ll probably never be free given his age but I don’t think that the defendent’s age should affect the sentence, especially when they still have their supporters like Bolsonaro.
<quote>never be free</quote>
Sweet summer child…
I thought he was in his 70s? Maybe you know more about the Brazillian justice system tho.
I’m not saying anything about his age. I’m assuming, which I maybe should not, about the politics of many political systems. I’ll give it 3 years, plus/minus 3 years.
You think they will parole him or convert it to house arrest?
Jupp.
Idk either tbf. Maybe being pessimistic is the smart move here.
The age was taken into account.
Seems really low
Weird that judges decide the verdict instead of a jury. Is that normal in Brazil? Seems very abusable.
Brazil uses Civil Law, as many other countries do, not Common Law as in the USA.
Brazil does have the concept of Jury, but this case fits a different criterion.
There are some conditions for a jury in USA as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juries_in_the_United_States/c/mapswithoutgreenland
Woah, crazy, all of the sea people fall under the system of Halakha? TIL
you realise that people can opt for a bench trial in the US?
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.
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.
Brazil uses civil law system like Europe… no need for juries
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…
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.
How’s that working out for you?
Why do you assume that if it’s how it’s done in the USA then it’s the best way?
Fucking USAians and their arrogance.
lol people are so hostile. The US definitely doesn’t do things well most of the time but juries do work pretty well in my experience.
That’s rich. A USAian saying people are hostile. In the days after a major hostile motherfucker got a sudden fountain open in his neck.
Get out of here. Fucking having the audacity to question the justice system in other countries because “in my experience”. Loser.
I was literally asking for people’s input because I don’t have experience with their legal system. But I guess you’re so intent on making everyone your enemy that you had to interpret it in the most negative light.
Questioning things in a polite, inquisitive way is good. Going off on people for questioning things is deranged behavior.
Also, I wonder if you are aware that people from other countries are individual humans with different opinions and behaviors on things? It seems not. What a very sad and myopic outlook.
Weird that judges decide the verdict instead of a jury. Is that normal in Brazil? Seems very abusable.
Yes, very polite. Starting with calling how it’s done in other places weird and finishing with accusing it of being just plain corruption.
Face it asshole. You’re just a regular USAian thinking the world is that poor excuse of a country and everything else is worse.
Nope. You don’t know shit about me. Fuck off.
Is this how you treat everyone from other countries? I’ve heard tell that many Europeans are xenophobic but I didn’t realize it was this bad.
No, just arrogant USAians.
We’re not trying to build walls and ICE acts over there. Saying Europeans are xenophobic. Do you have the faintest seed of an idea of how fucking idiotic that is?
Brazil showing the U.S. how it’s done.
If the US had done this after Jan 6, they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble.
If the US had done this after Jan 6, they would have saved themselves
a lot of trouble.
He’ll be 97 when he gets out, if he lives that long.
Good riddance.
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Eh, wouldnt be hard to get it reduced tbh, I doubt he will actually stay there for 27 years. But Ill take what I can get
Think positive. He could be sentenced for more crimes he definitely committed
Will still be capped so even at 40 years max, his lawyers will be trying to get him released with 20 or less years in jail for good behavior or what not
20 or less will make him up to 90 years old. It’ll do.
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You’d think attempting a coup would warrant a total block of any reduction in the length of sentence, but oh well.
The only thing that should be reduced is the length of the rope.
FYI: South Korea’s former president got pardoned by her successor after her impeachment & removal & imprisonment. (The one back in 2017, not the recent 2024 one)
okay i’m taking notes. when we rebuild the republic, impeachments can’t be pardoned.
@ United States of America, that’s how you fucking do it.
only beat me to the meme by, uh, 16 hours
Hahahahaha!
Yaassss!! Rot in there!
So basically Brazil is less of a banana republic than the USA.
