The final score frustrated the expectation of defendants to receive a softer penalty for being represented by lawyers of the first team of crime in the country, with a reputation for access to ministers of the (Federal Supreme Court).
It is a fact that and Juca had the harsh mission of defending the two main targets of the trial, respectively (PL) and General Walter Braga Netto.
The first was pointed out as the leader of the obvious undemocratic plot that unfolded at the end of his government in 2022. The second, deputy in the defeated reelection plate, had as one of the accusations leading the authorities’ murder plan, including the STF’s rapporteur ,.
The game of letters marked in the vision of pockets and unequivocal outcome for those who closely followed the investigations of the Federal Police, the complaint of the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) and the judgment itself has always passed the shadow of the severe and determined conduct of Moraes.
On January 8, 2023, the day of the breaking of the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia, the minister had already made it clear in a decision that “absolutely all,” wrote in capital letters, “civil, politically and criminally will be responsible for the acts attentive to democracy, the rule of law and the institutions.”
Bolsonaro was sentenced on Thursday (11) to 27 years and three months in prison. Braga Netto at 26 years. The two largest penalties of the eight that were on trial.
In the case, it was in December 2024, four days after Braga Netto was by the Federal Police on charges of obstructing the investigations.
The lawyer, nicknamed Juca, projected himself nationally in the scandal of the monthly.
The following month, – targets of major Federal Police operations – in charge of their lawyers.
Bolsonaro and Braga Netto had so far resisted hiring them because they were associated with the left in Bolsonarist circles. Both Vilardi and Juca, for example, against the former president in 2020 and 2022.
With the process march, however, the defendants were convinced to resort to the “starry.” Vilardi priced at $ 8 million, according to Bolsonaro. In the case of Juca, the value of the contract is not known.
The person responsible for intermediating the hiring of Braga Netto’s lawyer was Fabio Wajngarten, former Secretary of Communication of Planalto. The new defender of the military eventually suggested hiring Vilardi by the former president.
Despite the weight of his defender’s curriculum, the general remained stuck all the time. Already Bolsonaro had against him the decree of use of electronic anklet and then house arrest.
On a level below in the fame list of law, Cezar Bitencourt was the one who had the most successful client, whistleblower Mauro Cid. Even undergoing several mishaps in collaboration, he got a sentence of only two years, in open regime.
Former Senator Demostenes Torres managed to return to the spotlight in the defense of former Navy commander Almir Garnier.
Congressman of great projection until 2012, when he was revoked after revelations of calls with the entrepreneur of the Carlinhos Cachoeira Games, used 21 minutes of his oral support in compliments to the STF ministers and himself, which became the target of. Your client took a 24 -year sentence.
Another meme lawyer was Matheus Milanez, on a day when the session lengthened a lot.
At 33 years old and a much more modest curriculum, he ended up making an oral support considered the hardest compared to Moraes. Your client, however, did not benefit. Frustrating the timid expectation of some that Augusto Heleno could be acquitted, Bolsonaro’s assistant was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
