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
STJ to Decide How to Handle Cases Returning Under Privileged Forum
The STJ (Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice) has scheduled a May 6 judgment that will decide what happens to criminal cases being sent back up from the trial courts because privileged forum continues to apply after the defendant leaves office.
