Former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was formally denounced today for being a coup plotter, could face, if convicted of all the crimes, 39 years in prison, predict lawyers consulted by the CNN Brasil television station.
Brasilia.- However, experts point out that many prison sentences would be difficult to achieve.
The result of 39 years and four months in prison would be a sum that involves five crimes with different punishments.
The Attorney General’s Office (PGR, Prosecutor’s Office) duly accused Bolsonaro and 33 other people of the crimes of armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, and coup d’état.
Also, for qualified damage caused by violence and serious threat to the Union’s assets, with considerable harm to the victim and declared deterioration of assets.
The Prosecutor’s Office says that the former military man was the leader of the organization that tried to overthrow democracy in Brazil.
CNN assures that the count of the possible years of prison for Bolsonaro is not exact, it is based on more conservative estimates on the analysis of the legislation.
After the trial, the judge could reach a different dosimetry, everything depends on the interpretation of the evaluated code and the crimes for which he would eventually be convicted.
The expectation, however, of the experts heard by the television station, is that the former Army captain will not reach the ceiling.
Even if he is convicted, he would receive, in the estimation of the lawyers, a little more than half or two-thirds of the sentence, giving something like 20 to 26 years.
The calculations were based on the Code of Criminal Procedure and laws 12.850/2013 and 9.605/1998, which the PGR cited.
The experts consulted by CNN still consider the accusation “heavy and robust” and understand that there is little room for the defense of the former head of the Executive to contradict the arguments presented, without many prospects for the theses supported by the Federal Police and the Prosecutor’s Office to be overthrown.
The former paratrooper's lawyer staff considered the accusation clumsy and based on a single accusation disclosed last night.
“The inept accusation reaches the point of attributing to his participation in plans that contradict each other and are based on a single plea bargain, altered several times, by an informant (former assistant Mauro Cid) who questions his own voluntariness,” alleged the defense.
It insisted that the former president “never made a pact with any movement that aims at the deconstruction of the Democratic State of Law or the institutions that pave it.”
If the Supreme Federal Court accepts the prosecution’s indictment, the far-right politician will become the accused and face criminal proceedings in the higher court. (PL)
