After meeting with Moraes, Dosimetry Law rapporteur says he is ‘confident’
Federal deputy Paulinho da Força (Solidariedade-SP), rapporteur of the Dosimetry Law, met this Tuesday, 12th, with minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to discuss the validity of the text that reduces the sentences of those convicted of coup acts and benefits former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL). After the meeting, the deputy stated that he had a “positive” conversation with the minister and that he hopes that the law will be validated.
On his social networks, the deputy published a photo with the rapporteur. “Minister Alexandre de Moraes assured me that, as soon as the institutions respond, he will ask the Supreme Court for an agenda. The expectation is that the trial will take place in the last week of May”, he wrote. To the newspaper The GlobePaulinho da Força said he was “very optimistic that the Supreme Court will maintain the constitutionality of the project and the people will be released”.
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This Saturday, the 9th, Moraes suspended the application of the so-called Dosimetry Law for specific cases, until the STF analyzes two actions that question the constitutionality of the measure. The suspension occurred one day after the president of Congress, Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP), promulgated the law.
Moraes’ monocratic decision was taken as part of a request presented by a woman sentenced to 16 years in prison for participating in the acts of January 8th. Her defense wanted the benefit of dosimetry in her case.
The minister assessed that the request depends on analysis by the STF of two Direct Actions of Unconstitutionality (ADIs) that question the dosimetry law and were recently presented to the Court on Friday, 8th. The ADIs were filed by the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) and by the party federation PSOL-Rede. Moraes was chosen as rapporteur for both.
In this Saturday’s decision, Moraes said that the ADIs will be able to “influence the judgment of the requests made by the defense, recommending the suspension of the application of the law, for legal certainty, until the controversy is defined by the Federal Supreme Court”.
He had determined, still on Friday, that Congress present information within five days and then the Attorney General’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office respond within another three days.
After Congress overturned President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s (PT) veto on the Dosimetry Bill, the law was enacted with the aim of reducing the sentences of people convicted of the undemocratic acts of January 8th. The measure also directly benefits former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), sentenced to 27 years for an attempted coup d’état.
The text provides for reduced sentences and facilitates regime progression for crimes against the democratic rule of law.
Bolsonaro was convicted of the crimes of armed criminal organization, violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, coup d’état, qualified damage and deterioration of listed property.
