The three ministers of First Class of the Supreme Court (STF) They used different methods for reading the vote during the trial of the criminal action involving the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
Slide resources to make more visual, short and improvisation and a presentation of a long theoretical basis has been the ways used so far by the ministers to present their votes.
In judgments of great repercussion, the way of presenting the vote by the ministers is relevant due to the large number of people accompanying the session and are not used to the language of the judiciary.
First to speak out, Rapporteur Minister Alexandre de Moraes presented his vote on Tuesday (9) in a session that began around 9am and extended until 3 pm, totaling about five hours.
To present his position, the minister adopted Slides assistance to make a visual and more didactic presentation by listing 13 executory acts of the coup plan.
However, unlike the vote for receiving the complaint, on March 26 this year, Moraes did not use video of the depredation acts of the three powers headquarters on January 8, 2023.
In the vote, the minister denied all the preliminary issues presented by the defenses and maintained the validity of Mauro Cid’s denunciation. The rapporteur voted to condemn the eight defendants for the crimes pointed out by the PGR (Attorney General’s Office).
According to voting, the minister. Younger in the court, the minister adopted a more makeshift tone and without direct reading of the text of the vote.
At the conclusion of the vote, Dino considered that the PGR complaint was upheld and to condemn all defendants. However, he considered that Alexandre Ramagem, Augusto Heleno and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira.
The third vote came on Wednesday (10), already with a historic milestone: one of the longest votes given on the Supreme Court. , including one hour break for lunch and two breaks of about 10 minutes in the morning and afternoon.
In the vote, minister made a major revision of jurisprudence and theoretical basis to analyze the preliminaries and to judge the merits of the accusations pointed out by PGR.
At the end of his vote, Fux only condemned Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid and General Braga Netto for the crime of attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law. The other six defendants, including Bolsonaro, had votes for acquittal.
This Thursday (11),. Soon after, the next to vote and conclude the analysis of preliminaries and merit is Minister Cristiano Zanin, president of the collegiate.
Who are the defendants?
- Jair Bolsonaro, Former President of the Republic;
- Alexandre Ramagem, Federal Deputy and former director of ABIN (Brazilian Intelligence Agency);
- Almir Garnier, Former Navy Commander;
- Anderson Torres, Former Minister of Justice and former Secretary of Public Security of the Federal District;
- Augusto Heleno, Former GSI Minister (Institutional Security Office);
- Mauro Cid, Former Jair Bolsonaro’s orders;
- Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, Former Defense Minister; and
- Walter Braga Netto, Former Minister of the Civil House and Defense and candidate for deputy on the plate of Jair Bolsonaro in 2022.
