Bolsonaro Lets Appeal Deadline Pass, Clearing Path for STF to Execute 27-Year Sentence

Overview

• The STF First Panel unanimously upheld Bolsonaro’s preventive detention on Monday after findings that he deliberately damaged his ankle monitor with a welding iron and that a supporters’ vigil created a concrete risk of escape, and he remains at the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília.
• By declining to file second embargos de declaração by the Nov. 24 cutoff, the defense left a procedural route for Moraes to certify transit in rem and order the start of the sentence.
• Bolsonaro’s lawyers are preparing embargos infringentes this week, but court precedent generally requires at least two votes for acquittal—he had only one—casting doubt on the appeal’s admissibility.
• Co-defendants continue late-stage moves: ex–Defense Minister Paulo Sérgio filed new embargos seeking acquittal or a reduced term, while Walter Braga Netto and Augusto Heleno challenged penalty calculations and evidence.
• Anderson Torres, sentenced to 24 years, asked to serve his sentence at the PF superintendency or a PM battalion citing safety risks, as opposition allies press for amnesty and Eduardo Bolsonaro intensified attacks on Moraes.