The story is petty with whom it condemns. The trials in which prosecutors and/or magistrates imprison defendants accompanying the will of the powerful or the feeling of public opinion. Pass the time and the dust of time ends up covering them. It is the paradox of the biography of lawyer Sobral Pinto (1893-1991). Everyone remembers the champion in the defense of public freedoms in the dictatorships of the Estado Novo and 1964. Dust covered the memory of the combative promoter of the 1920s, which asked for jail for the lieutenants. (After 40 years, the lieutenants became generals and continued to hate him.)
The Supreme Federal Court Hairdresser Débora Rodrigues dos Santos. On January 8, 2023, she wrote with lipstick “lost, Mané” in the statue of justice that adorns the square of the three powers. There was something of scenographic in the decision. Most ministers accompanied the vote of. Okay, but the same Moraes had granted Deborah the benefit of
The ministers overthrew the understanding of, who condemned Deborah to one year to six months. Fux was based on the facts.
Deborah arrived in Brasilia at 1 pm on January 7, going to one of the camps that asked for a coup. Fux said: “It should be noted that during the acts performed on January 8, 2023, it only remained outside the Praça dos Três Powers, having not entered any of the public buildings then depredated and destroyed (neither from the Federal Supreme Court or the Planalto Palace).”
More: “There is only proof of individual conduct and isolated from the defendant, in the sense of shattering the statue of justice using a lipstick.
Also add:
i) There is no proof of the defendant’s involvement with other defendants, nor of his participation, minimal, in the other acts performed in the headquarters of the three powers;
ii) There is no indication that the defendant has entered any of the buildings, assisted other accused or employee violence against people or objects. “
A 14-year sentence meets a part of the public and powerful occasional opinion, even though he was known that Deborah was sent to house arrest. Fux’s vote went to the file of overdue opinions.
There, he will be in the company of the 1970 vote of Minister Alcides Carneiro, in the Superior Military Court, against the maintenance of a sentence that sentenced historian Caio Prado Júnior to 4 years and 6 months in prison for an innocuous interview with an student newspaper. At the time, a Marshal applauded the arrest because it would “serve to set an example to intellectuals.” Carneiro wanted to nullify the conviction, but his colleagues decided only to reduce it to a year and six months, keeping him arrested.
Alcides Carneiro died in 1976. In life, he wanted to have the following epitaph: “He was a judge. If he did not acquit for compassion, he did not condemn for weakness.”
The story did not forget Heleno Fragoso, Caio’s lawyer and dozens of prisoners. On the other hand, the dust covered the name of the audit officer who asked Caio Prado: “The Lord is the man who invented this Marxism in Brazil, isn’t it?”
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