Privileged Forum: Lifetime Officeholders Keep Their Prerogative
The Special Court reaffirmed, by majority vote, that authorities holding lifetime offices keep their privileged forum by virtue of office, even for crimes without
Femicide by Soldier Goes to Jury, Rules Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice (STJ)
The Third Section held that the jury court remains the proper forum for trying a femicide committed by a service member on military premises, recognizing that gender-based violence brings the case under the ordinary courts.
