In two sessions this 3rd (25.mar), the 1st Panel of the Court listened to the preliminary arguments of the defenses and voted for the rejection of all requests
The 1st Panel of the Supreme Court (STF) suspended the trial that analyzes the receipt of the complaint of the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) against 8 reported by attempted coup d’état in 2022. The trial continues on Wednesday (25.mar.2025).
On Wednesday (26.mar), at 9:30 am, the merits of the complaint will be analyzed. That is, the Court will evaluate the members of the crucial core for the coup plan becomes defendants. Among them is the former president (PL), his deputy in 2022, (PL) and 3 former ministers.
If they become defendants, there is a criminal case against the accused. None of the analyzes, at this procedural moment, deals with the conviction or acquittal of the investigated.
In this 3rd (25.mar), two sessions were reserved for the first day of judgment. In the morning, the board of 5 ministers heard the arguments of the defenses against the allegations of prosecutor Paulo Gonet.
In the afternoon, Alexandre de Moraes, Flávio Dino, Luiz Fux, Cármen Lúcia and Cristiano Zanin (President of the Class) rejected all preliminary requests from the defenses.
They were:
- the removal of the ministers Moraes, Dino and Zanin to judge the case;
- May the action go to the 1st instance and that the plenary analyze the receipt of the complaint;
- annulment of the complaint by curtailment of defense and excess of documents;
- that the judge of guarantees in the case be applied, submitting the action to another rapporteur; and
- that Mauro Cid’s denunciation is annulled
All preliminaries rejected by the 1st class obtained unanimity of votes, the minus the request for the analysis of the STF plenary (11 ministers), not the class (5 ministers). Fux was the only one who voted to accept the request
Read the decisions of the ministers about the requests:
Read the allegations of the defendants’ defenses:
Understand what happens now:
Accusations of the PGR (as penalties add up to 43 years in prison):
- violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law – 4 to 8 years in prison;
- coup d’etat – 4 to 12 years in prison;
- Integrate armed criminal organization – 3 to 17 years;
- Qualified damage against Union’s heritage – 6 months to 3 years; and
- DECLARED OF HERITAGE – 1 to 3 years.
Crucial core (members):
- Jair Bolsonaro, former President of the Republic;
- Alexandre Ramagem, former director general of ABIN;
- Almir Garnier, former Navy Commander;
- Anderson Torres, former Minister of Justice;
- Augusto Heleno, former GSI minister;
- Mauro Cid, former Bolsonaro orders of orders;
- Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, former Minister of Defense;
- Braga Netto, former Minister of the Civil House and candidate for vice president in 2022.
This is the core responsible for the main decisions and social impact actions of the alleged criminal organization that planned the coup, according to PGR. The members were from the top of the Federal Government and the Armed Forces.
