Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court voted 6–5 against the provisional serving of sentences when convicts still have appeals ongoing. The move invalidates the understanding that authorized the imprisonments, in 2016.
Brazil’s Prosecutor-General Raquel Dodge described the belief that a jail sentence is to begin only after all appeal possibilities of a criminal convict are exhausted at higher courts—like the Superior Court of Justice and the Supreme Court—as “an exaggeration” and capable of
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