Will the Brazilian Congress approve any bill allowing the arrest after conviction by an appellate court in 2020?
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In October, 2019, the Supreme Court of Brazil ruled that it is unconstitutional to imprison defendants who were convicted by an appellate court while they are still appealing to higher courts, except in a few specific case scenarios. Since then, several proposals have been brought forward in Congress - trying to change the law or the Constitution - in order to make such imprisonmnet legal.
One of the controversies surrounding the debates concerns whether or not such a change can be made via a new bill or if it requires a Constitutional Ammendment.
If a bill changing the law to allow imprisonment of convicted defendants after being convicted by an appellate court - in more circumstances that what was allowed in november of 2019 - is approved by both the Brazilian Senate and the Brazilian House of Representatives, and sancioned by the President by December 31, 2020, this market will be resolved as "Yes"
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