SAO PAULO (AP) — The fate of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro is largely in the hands of five people.
Within the next three weeks, a panel of five of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices will decide whether Bolsonaro and 33 others charged by the country’s prosecutor-general of attempting a coup will stand trial.
To expedite certain cases, including criminal ones, Brazil’s top court can use one of its two five-justice panels, both of which are permanent and exclude the chief justice. Changes in each panel usually take place mostly by request or when one of its members becomes chief justice. In Brazil, the chief justice serves for two years.
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