STF to Weigh Bolsonaro’s Final Appeal This Week as Questions Mount Over Punishment

Overview

• The Supreme Court’s First Panel will review Jair Bolsonaro’s embargos de declaração in a virtual session from November 7 to 14 alongside six co-defendants from the core January 8 case.
• This filing is the final procedural remedy before the conviction becomes definitive and is generally limited to clarifying omissions or contradictions, with only modest scope to alter the sentence.
• Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and three months for crimes against democracy and has been under preventive house arrest in Brasília since August 4.
• O Globo reports that senior Federal District officials have privately urged justices not to place Bolsonaro in the Papuda prison complex on security and health grounds, a claim the DF government officially denies.
• Negotiations over the so-called PL da Dosimetria are stalled, with proposals under discussion such as treating overlapping crimes as one and lowering the threshold for regime progression, measures supporters say could shorten effective time served but that remain unresolved.