Current president of the first class of the (Supreme Federal Court), that the former president (), the minister was a recurring critic of the rush and the circumstances in which the actions that condemned the president (PT) were conducted in Operation Lava Jato.
In the Supreme, the forecast is also to judge Bolsonaro accelerated, with conclusion later this year, under the justification of.
Defense lawyers have already expressed their intention to question deadlines and the methods adopted in the case.
Zanin was Lula’s lawyer during. (SP), in which the petista was convicted, was the fastest of the operation to be completed in the first instance and reached the TRF-4 (Federal Regional Court 4th Region), as shown the Sheet at the time.
In the Regional Court, the case also processed. The TRF-4 judged Lula in a quick and without disagreement, which ensured that the petista.
To facilitate accelerated supreme processing, Bolsonaro’s action must be under the responsibility of the first class, composed of Zanin and the ministers (rapporteur of the case), and.
Thus, the ministers nominated by Bolsonaro to the court, Kassio Nunes Marques and André Mendonça. Both have diverged from most ministers in January 8, voting for milder positions about convictions and penalties.
Zanin became known nationally for the emphatic defense he made of Lula both in the triplex and in. He made insistent complaints about what he called the run over and violation of isonomy in the treatment given to defenses regarding that given to the accusation.
Sought by the report through the advisory of the Supreme, the minister did not comment.
Lula’s lawsuits arrived at TRF-4 after judgments of the judges and Gabriela Hardt in the first instance in Curitiba.
When the trial of Lula’s appeal in the case of the triplex was marked by TRF-4, Zanin issued a note in which he made a series of criticism and said he expected, in a provocation form, “that the explanation for this record is the ease of verifying the nullity of the process and the innocence of Lula.”
In 2019, after the trial of the Atibaia site at the Regional Court, Zanin stated at a news conference that “there was a run over” and that the “procedural order line was eventually despised.”
“It is an appeal that was analyzed, once again, in record time. We obtained in the presidency of the Court showing that at the moment this appeal judged today entered this court, there were 1,941 identical appeals awaiting trial,” said the lawyer.
“The question that has to be asked is: have these other 1,941 appeals that were in front of the line have already tried?”
Even before Lula’s cases arrived in court, Zanin already contested the federal and magistrate’s task force methods.
He said that the trials were in an improper forum, the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba, at the time led by Moro, who later became Bolsonaro minister and is currently a senator by -PR.
In one, Zanin justified that “he is perceived and known by society in general” that Lula and Moro were seen “as two enemies, two irreconcilable poles that repel each other.”
“This is proven, only by way of example, for coverage by large and news magazines in the country.”
He also adopted procedural strategies that helped make the process slower, such as.
At the time, Moro complained in an order that the number seemed “quite exaggerated” and determined that Lula would participate in person hearings with the witnesses – decisions that he later retreated.
Zanin said at the time that the determination showed that Moro was partial, that this was “a retaliation for the fact that Lula wanted to defend himself in the process” and that “the legislation authorizes the defendant to choose eight witnesses by [cada] fact and that is what the defense did. “
In 2023, Zanin was the first name nominated for the Supreme for Lula in his third term. Approved by the Senate, he took office in the vacancy that was Ricardo Lewandowski, current Minister of Justice.
As a member of the first class, Zanin will have to go through situations similar to those he questioned at Lava Jato, this time as a magistrate. The minister will preside over the class until the beginning of the second half, when he will be replaced by Flávio Dino.
In the class, Zanin will vote for the receipt of the complaint and also in a possible judgment that may condemn Bolsonaro. He also participates in resource voting against the rapporteur’s monocratic decisions, Alexandre de Moraes.
Since the beginning of investigations about the coup plot, defense lawyers have questioned Moraes’s rapporteur and also point out that the minister is not exempt because one of the main coup plans involved his kidnapping and death.
Lawyers also question the fact that Moraes indicated that the process will be tried in the first class-not in the plenary, as it could occur due to the importance of the case, with the involvement of a former President of the Republic.
Last week, Bolsonaro’s defense has already made a request in an attempt to slow the process speed. The former president’s lawyers in response to the complaint of (Attorney General’s Office).
This was the time that the Attorney General of the Republic, took to send to the STF the accusation against Bolsonaro and 33 others after the final report of the Federal Police.
Other similar issues can be raised in the procedural period, including the possibility of many witnesses being related by the former president’s lawyers.
