Moraes Declares Coup Case Final, Orders Bolsonaro and Allies to Begin Prison Terms

Overview

• Alexandre de Moraes certified the finality of the convictions in the ‘trama golpista’ case and directed immediate execution of sentences for seven defendants, including Jair Bolsonaro.
• The First Panel opened a 24-hour virtual review of Moraes’s orders, with Moraes and Flávio Dino already voting to uphold the start of the prison terms.
• Moraes rejected new embargos de declaração as dilatory and deemed embargos infringentes inadmissible under STF practice that requires at least two dissenting votes in Turma judgments.
• Custody locations were set: Bolsonaro at the Federal Police superintendence in Brasília; Walter Braga Netto at the Army’s 1st Division in Rio; Anderson Torres at Papuda; Augusto Heleno and Paulo Sérgio Nogueira at the Comando Militar do Planalto; Almir Garnier at a Navy facility in Brasília; Alexandre Ramagem is listed as a fugitive in Miami, with a warrant and PF measures ordered.
• Bolsonaro’s lawyers called the certification premature and said they will file embargos infringentes and other remedies, while other defense teams criticized the ruling and signaled further challenges.