Brazil court reduces prison sentence for ex-president Lula
Date created : 24/04/2019 - 03:07
A Brazilian appeals court on Tuesday reduced leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's 12-year sentence for bribery and money laundering.
In a unanimous decision, the four judges on the Superior Court of Justice panel hearing Lula's appeal agreed to uphold his conviction, but cut the sentence to eight years and 10 months.
The ruling, broadcast live on the court's YouTube channel, could mean Lula is eligible for "semi-open" prison later this year.
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Soon after winning, Bolsonaro named Sergio Moro, the anticorruption judge who handed Lula his first conviction, as justice minister.
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As everyone knows, the only way Bolsonaro could win the election was to either murder Lula, or put him in prison, since the whole world was aware Lula was guaranteed the winner of the election up until the time the fascist right managed to manipulate the law with dishonest judges and get him locked up on completely bogus charges. Everyone knew then, and knows now.
