Overview

• The STJ’s 6th Panel unanimously annulled the conviction of Francisco Mairlon Barros Aguiar, trounced the case, and ordered his immediate release; he left Brasília’s Papuda prison early Wednesday after 14 years and 11 months behind bars.
• Ministers said a jury conviction cannot rest on police‑stage confessions later refuted in court and lacking material evidence; in September the court also voided the conviction of Adriana Villela in the same 2009 triple‑homicide case.
• One month after the killing of ex–São Paulo police chief Ruy Ferraz Fontes, investigators have not identified masterminds or a definitive motive, though five suspects tied to the execution are jailed and searches targeted Praia Grande officials linked to a technology contract under scrutiny.
• Chamber President Hugo Motta paused the ‘PL da Dosimetria’ after Senate resistance, delaying a vote on a draft that party leaders say could reduce penalties for January 8 defendants and even affect Jair Bolsonaro’s sentence in the coup plot case.
• State operations continued: in Minas Gerais, police arrested an alleged key trafficker in Porteirinha with a court‑ordered R$500,000 account freeze, while in Santo Antônio de Pádua the ‘Caixa de Esgoto’ phase executed seven warrants targeting a gang led by “Boquinha”; separate cases included a PM sergeant sentenced to over 16 years in Juiz de Fora, a Ceará judge denying temporary arrest of a lawyer in a fatal hit‑and‑run probe, a Baep gun arrest in Piracicaba, a drunk‑driving detention in Volta Redonda, and a suspect captured after entering a Fortaleza child‑education center with no injuries reported.