Overview

• The Supreme Court's First Panel opened the virtual judgment on Friday, with voting scheduled to run through October 10.
• The five-justice panel is chaired by Cristiano Zanin, with Cármen Lúcia as rapporteur and Alexandre de Moraes, Flávio Dino, and Luiz Fux composing the bench.
• Prosecutors accuse Sergio Moro of calúnia for falsely implying in a 2022 festa junina video that a habeas corpus could be bought from Justice Gilmar Mendes, amounting to imputing passive corruption.
• The PGR complaint was accepted in June 2024, making Moro a defendant in the case now under appellate review by the panel.
• Moro's defense argues the line was an ill-judged joke taken out of context from a maliciously edited clip and denies any intent to damage the minister's reputation.