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Judge Orders Brazil to Release Ex-President Lula, Setting Off Legal Uproar
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 08, 2018 12:30pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Author | Ernesto Londoño and Manuela Andreoni |
| News Date | Sunday, July 8, 2018 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | RIO DE JANEIRO — A judge in Brazil ruled on Sunday that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva be released from prison while he continues to appeal a corruption conviction, an unexpected decision that touched off an immediate legal and political uproar. Whether the order for Mr. da Silva’s would take effect was not at all clear.
The order was the latest twist in the tumultuous lead-up to Brazil’s presidential election in October.
Even from prison, Mr. da Silva holds a lead in the polls. He is hoping to be on the ballot even though the corruption conviction for which he is serving a 12-year sentence makes him legally ineligible to run for office.
On Sunday, a federal judge, Rogério Favreto, who has ties to Mr. da Silva’s leftist Workers’ Party, ordered the former president’s release.
According to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, Judge Favreto was a member of the Workers Party for nearly 20 years and served in Mr. da Silva’s administration from 2005 to 2010.
Judge Favreto was the weekend duty judge in the region where Mr. da Silva is being held, and critics said Mr. Lula’s lawyers had tried to get the issue before a favorable judge. Judge Favreto said that releasing Mr. da Silva would allow his “effective participation in the democratic process.” |
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