Rules on provisional detention may change in coming months

House Speaker Rodrigo Maia (Democrats, DEM, of Rio de Janeiro) believes a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow courts to execute sentences after a conviction is upheld by an appellate court will be considered in the chamber later this year. Lawmakers began their push to move the text forward after a controversial decision by Justice Marco Aurélio Mello, of the Supreme Federal Court, to release a drug dealer known as André do Rap - now a fugitive. The court's Chief Justice, Luiz Fux, is going to bring the case before the...

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