The 2nd Specialized Panel of the Federal Regional Court of the 2nd Region (TRF2) denied an appeal by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) and upheld the conviction of former Military Police sergeant Ronnie Lessa to five years imprisonment, in a closed regime, for the crime of international arms trafficking. The collegiate decision was handed down on Wednesday (12) and published on Friday (14). Lessa was arrested in March 2019 for the murder of councilor Marielle Franco and driver Anderson Gomes. The parliamentarian and the driver were victims of an ambush in the Estácio neighborhood, in the central region of the city, on March 14, 2018. Marielle was heading home at night in the Tijuca neighborhood, in the north zone, when the car in which she and Anderson were hit by dozens of shots. The two died on the spot. The appeal was heard on April 23. At the time, the court upheld Lessa’s sentence of five years in prison for the crime of international arms trafficking. In the embargoes, the MPF maintained that the group would not have analyzed arguments presented by the body in the process, which would justify the increase in the penalty, such as the allegation of possession or possession of a firearm for restricted use. The judges, however, followed the understanding of the rapporteur, federal judge Marcello Granado, who considered that there was no “obscurity, ambiguity, contradiction, omission of a point or question on which the court should have ruled ex officio or upon request, remaining reasoned the appealed decision in a clear, uncontroversial and exhaustive way to elucidate the case”.
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