Moro gets support in the Senate to try to resume prison project in 2nd instance – 02/15/2023 – Power

Senator Sergio Moro (União-PR) got the signatures to ask for the unfiling of the proposal that deals with arrest in second instance.

In 2019, by 6 votes to 5, the STF (Federal Supreme Court) again barred the arrest of convicts shortly after the second instance, an instrument defended by the former Minister of Justice. The decision allowed the release of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).

The proposal to change the Code of Criminal Procedure to regulate imprisonment after conviction in second instance was spun off from the anti-crime package that Moro presented when he was minister of Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

As reported by the column Panel last week, Moro filed a request to unarchive the project.

All proposals not approved are archived from one legislature to another. To unlock the project, Moro got the support of 27 senators – the senator’s first political victory.

Now, the unarchive request needs to be voted on by the full Senate, where it needs a simple majority.

The project was approved by the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) of the Senate at the end of 2019 and was waiting to be voted on in the plenary of the House.

“Now we have a greater challenge, which is to take the Bill to the Plenary and have it approved. But it is necessary to study the best political moment for this”, stated Moro.

A special commission was created in the Chamber to discuss the matter, but the final report also did not reach the plenary.

Newly sworn in as federal deputy, former Lava Jato prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol (PR) has also been making moves in the Chamber to unlock this issue in the House.

He submitted a request for the creation of a commission to discuss imprisonment after conviction in second instance.