Janine sees injunctions as a bad deal for the defendants.
"If the appeals are admitted, if the defense is considered, it will be more difficult to claim that the process was political or unfair. Giving defendants the right to contest sentences, whether the penalties are upheld or reduced, will protect the final sentence from the accusation of being political and not legal," says philosopher Renato Janine Ribeiro.
247 - Philosopher Renato Janine Ribeiro, a columnist for the newspaper Valor Econômico, raised an interesting thesis about appeals for reconsideration. According to him, the admissibility of these appeals will have a negative effect on defendants. It will not prevent convictions and will eliminate suspicions that the process was conducted politically – and not legally.
"If the appeals are admitted, if the defense is considered, it will be more difficult to claim that the process was political or unfair. Giving defendants the right to contest sentences, whether the penalties are upheld or reduced, will protect the final sentence from the accusation of being political and not legal," he says.
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