The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup.
A panel of five Supreme Court justices handed down the sentence just hours after they had convicted the former leader.
They ruled he was guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Isn’t it the case of every Supreme Court? Which one has a jury?
The Supreme Court doesn’t usually decide people’s sentences though. They might rule on a technical issue arising in a trial but not decide the verdict or sentence. At least, that’s how it works in the US.
i love how you’re correct and people are downvoting you because they listened to a podcast
Lemmy seems to have interpreted my comment as some kind of pro-US nationalist position. Which is ridiculous but whatever I don’t even try to figure out or worry about what will anger people here anymore.
I’d say we need to be friends but it seems we already are