Brazil Lets a Judge Accused of Selling Verdicts Return to the Bench

Justice

Key Facts

—The decision. Brazil’s judicial council moved to let an appellate judge accused of sentence-selling return to work.

—The judge. He had been suspended since October 2024 in a federal probe of a Brazil judge sentence-selling ring.

—The secrecy. The council ruled in a closed session, with even the vote count withheld.