Roberto Jefferson’s Acquittal Revoked by TRE-SP for Insulting Cármen Lúcia
On Tuesday, the Electoral Regional Court of São Paulo (TRE-SP) revoked the acquittal of former congressman Roberto Jefferson, accused of electoral slander against Supreme Court Justice Cármen Lúcia. In October 2022, Jefferson, who was under house arrest with an electronic ankle monitor, called the justice a “prostitute” in a video posted on social media.
In November 2023, Judge Dêbora de Oliveira Ribeiro from the 258th Electoral Zone acquitted Jefferson due to the lack of a statement from the justice. When contacted by Estadão, the former congressman did not respond before the publication of this report.
During the hearing on Tuesday, the presiding judge of the case, Maria Cláudia Bedotti, stated that the behavior remains criminal even if the victim did not provide testimony. Therefore, the judge ordered that the case be returned to the Electoral Zone for a new trial. The decision was unanimous among the other members of the Court.
An ally of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), Jefferson was arrested on the eve of the 2022 runoff elections after attacking Federal Police agents with rifle shots and grenades. The agents were following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to take him into custody. The former congressman, who was under house arrest, violated precautionary measures by releasing a video with insults directed at Cármen Lúcia.
“I reviewed the vote of the Blair witch, Cármen Lúcifer, on the prior censorship of Jovem Pan. I looked again, I can’t believe it. She really resembles those prostitutes, those sleazy sluts, who turn to the guy and say: ‘darling, I’ve never given my backside, it’s the first time.’ She did it for the first time. She waived the unconstitutionality for the first time,” he said.
The trial mentioned by the former congressman, at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), granted three right of replies to then-candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), to be aired on Jovem Pan channels. The justice was one of the four who voted in favor of Lula.
Prior to this incident, in 2021, Moraes ordered Jefferson’s arrest after the Federal Police identified indications of his involvement in a “criminal organization with strong digital activity clearly aimed at undermining Democracy and the Rule of Law.”
House arrest was granted to the former congressman in January 2022. Despite being confined, he informally led the PTB (now PRD) and ran for President, but his registration was denied by the TSE. The party’s representative in the election was Padre Kelmon, who finished in seventh place.
In January of this year, the Attorney General’s Office argued that the crimes Jefferson is accused of should be tried by the Supreme Court, stating that the former parliamentarian was a “relevant link” in the “machinery” of the attacks on the buildings of the Three Powers on January 8, 2023. Initially, the cases were being processed at the first instance in the Federal District Court.
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