The Senate Plenary approved this Wednesday (17) bill No. 2,162/2023, the so-called Dosimetry PL, by 48 votes to 25. The proposal reduces the sentences of those convicted of the acts of January 8, including the former president sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison for a coup d’état. The text now goes.
After experts pointed out that the bill could . Therefore, the rapporteur of the proposal in the Senate, Espiridião Amin (PP-SC), accepted the amendment authored by the senator (União Brasil-PR) to remove the “loophole” and restrict the reduction of the sentence only to those convicted on January 8th.
“They apply exclusively to crimes committed in the context of the events that occurred on January 8, 2023, related to acts of invasion, depredation, damage to public or private property, as determined in the respective judicial processes. Sole paragraph: The application of this law to facts other than those expressly mentioned in the caput, even if they bear typical similarity or punishment”, is prohibited”, .
The text of the Dosimetry PL determines that the crimes of attempting to end the Democratic Rule of Law and coup d’état, when committed in the same context, will imply the use of the most serious penalty instead of the sum of both penalties.
A reduction in the time for progression of the prison regime was also established. This means that the convict must have good behavior and serve at least 16.6% of the sentence to progress from the closed to the semi-open regime or from the semi-open to the open regime.
Another definition was the reduction of the sentence from one third to two thirds in cases where the infractions occur in a crowd, but the defendant cannot have played a leadership role or financed the acts.
With the changes, in addition to Bolsonaro, the former minister of the Civil House, Walter Braga Netto, may benefit; the former Minister of Defense, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira; the former Minister of Justice, Anderson Torres; the former head of the Institutional Security Office (GSI), Augusto Heleno; the former Navy commander, Almir Garnier.
They were all part of the so-called nucleus 1 of the coup plot during the trials in the First Panel of the Federal Supreme Court (STF). The group would have played a central role in the scheme that, in addition to the coup d’état, planned the assassination of Lula, the vice president (PSB) and the minister .
