00:00We continue with more information.
00:02The Brazilian Supreme Court finished on Tuesday, its first day on its ruling on the case against former President Jair Bolsonaro.
00:10Our correspondent Brian Mayer with more details.
00:14The first day of the Brazilian Supreme Court's first working group's deliberations on the case against Jair Bolsonaro,
00:22the former president and seven of his cronies, has come to an end.
00:25In all, there are five justices who are going to cast their votes, guilty or innocent, for the defendants.
00:31Today, two of them were able to present their justification for the vote and cast their votes.
00:37These two justices were Alexandre de Mordaes, who was the rapporteur of the case and also was the investigation judge,
00:45and Flavio Dine, former governor of the state of MaranhĂŁo, who became a Supreme Court justice two years ago.
00:52Well, they both agreed that all eight defendants are guilty.
00:56However, Flavio Dino, in his ruling, suggested that different penalties be given out to different defendants,
01:03depending on their level of involvement in the five crimes that they're all charged with.
01:08What Dino said was that, in his opinion, Jair Bolsonaro was the ringleader.
01:14General Walter Braganeto, his vice presidential running mate and former defense minister,
01:21had an equally high level as a kind of ringleader of the entire coup.
01:26Other defendants had a moderate to high level of involvement,
01:30and he believed that General Augusto Helena, who's known by many as the former leader of the Minostar troops in Haiti during the Sitz-Soleil massacre,
01:38and former intelligence chief Alexandre Ramaghan, according to Dino,
01:43didn't participate much in the plotting during the second half of 2022 and therefore should have lower sentences.
01:49So as it stands now, they only need one more vote for a guilty verdict to be ratified by the court.
01:56This is expected to happen tomorrow.
01:58There's three justices left who are going to present their arguments and cast their votes.
02:04These justices are Luis Fuchs, Carmen Lucia, and Cristiano Zanin.
02:09So all eyes are turned to the Supreme Court right now, and as the guilty verdict looks inevitable,
02:15many of the center-right politicians that were clamoring for amnesty for the defendants are backing down.
02:20As Folio de SĂŁo Paulo newspaper reports,
02:22they're now asking for some kind of bill that would just reduce their sentences a bit.
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