Sérgio Moro: If the STF proceeds to the merits and evaluates that merit, I saw in Minister Flávio Dino's vote yesterday — I read commentary, because I could not watch it in full — his reference to the possibility of recognizing minor participation for some of the accused, among them some military officers who appear on the defendant's side.
Sérgio Moro: And I would say the following: if they are to be convicted and, at the same time, minor participation is recognized, then let that understanding be extended, whether in the panel (Turma) or eventually in the Plenary, in a review, to those January 8 protesters.
Because, if we think about it, if this prosecution thesis that there was an attempted coup on January 8 prevails — with which I disagree — but if that thesis prevails and there is to be conviction of the generals, recognizing minor participation and therefore reducing the sentence, as our Penal Code allows, then that benefit should also be extended to those protesters.
Sérgio Moro: If the Generals had minor participation, those January 8 protesters had much less importance; in the attempted coup version, regarding which I have already said I disagree, they would at most have been a mass of maneuver, a pawn of minor importance, much inferior to that of any other participant in that criminal scheme narrated by the Office of the Attorney General (Procuradoria-Geral da República).
Sérgio Moro: So let this trial, at the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal), be used to make the necessary correction of the sentencing dosimetry for the January 8 protesters, reducing their sentences, perhaps even unifying the sentencing dosimetry of the attempted coup d'état with the attempted abolition of the democratic rule of law, because it is a single crime.