STF Panel Finalizes Session Upholding Bolsonaro’s 27-Year Sentence

Overview

• The First Panel closed its virtual session late Friday, leaving intact the 4–1 outcome that rejected Bolsonaro’s and six allies’ bids to undo their convictions.
• The court is expected to publish the ruling on the next business day, which formally starts the deadlines for any further filings.
• Defense teams have five days for new embargos de declaração and roughly ten days remaining for embargos infringentes, a route considered unlikely because only one justice voted for acquittal.
• Once the limited appeals are addressed, relator Alexandre de Moraes may certify finality and order imprisonment, with reporting pointing to late November or early December as a plausible window.
• Bolsonaro remains in preventive home confinement; appeals by Braga Netto, Almir Garnier, Anderson Torres, Augusto Heleno, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and Alexandre Ramagem were also rejected, and initial custody could be at Papuda or in a special facility subject to health considerations.