Marcos Rogério: I imagine the law students who are in law schools today, when they are taught about constitutional values, about the guidelines of the Federal Constitution, about what the rule of law is, due process, the adversarial principle and full defense, confronted with what is the narrative, the rhetoric, the teaching in the classroom in an academic environment and what they see outside the academic environment in real life, what is happening and, lamentably, involving the highest Court of this country.
Marcos Rogério: This case of Filipe Martins is an emblematic case.
As if the action that culminated in the conviction of former President Bolsonaro and a number of other men and women, in what became nationally known as the coup plot, in a tainted process, in an incompetent forum, with judges who were clearly disqualified from judging, were not enough, we have a person who is today imprisoned for an accusation of a crime that did not occur – he is imprisoned for a crime that was not committed, for a trip he did not take, for a meeting he did not attend, yet he remains imprisoned.
Marcos Rogério: Even now, former President Bolsonaro is detained. And, this week, there was a decision...
Marcos Rogério: The defense requested his release because he was accused in an inquiry that involves his son Eduardo, who would allegedly be acting in the United States against Brazilian institutions, against the Brazilian State.