Minister Gilmar Mendes, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), denied the request for house arrest in favor of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL). In the decision, made on Saturday morning (17), the minister claimed that it was not possible to analyze a request made by a lawyer unrelated to the defense of the convicted person.
The request was filed by lawyer Paulo Amendmentbili Sousa Barros de Carvalhosa, who is not part of the former president’s defense.
“Furthermore, it is important to highlight that the present habeas corpus was not even filed by the technical defense of the patient, former President of the Republic”, says the excerpt of the decision.
Gilmar Mendes also justified that the STF jurisprudence does not admit the knowledge of habeas corpus filed against decisions of ministers or collegiate bodies
of the Court itself. The request presented in favor of Bolsonaro questioned decisions made by Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
“It is that, as reported, the present habeas corpus was handled against the act of a Minister of this Supreme Court, appointed as a coercive authority. In this case, the jurisprudence of the Federal Supreme Court is reiterated and peaceful in the sense that the knowledge of habeas corpus filed against decisions of Ministers or collegial bodies of the Court itself is not admitted.” says the document.
Last Friday (16), minister Alexandre de Moraes made a request for house arrest in favor of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL). He claimed that because he was a coercive party to the habeas corpus (which questions his own decisions), he could not consider the issue.
