# STF First Panel convicts Bolsonaro 4–1 and sentences him to 27 years 3 months Date: 2025 ## The fact On 11 September 2025 the First Panel of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court convicted [Jair Bolsonaro](/people/jair-bolsonaro) 4–1 of coup d’état, attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, criminal organisation and related counts, and sentenced him to 27 years and three months. Agência Brasil recorded the votes. Justice Luiz Fux dissented. Later appeals, PF custody, 2026 house arrest, and a Congress reduction law suspended by [Moraes](/people/alexandre-de-moraes) are children. Do not invent a unique later served-years coefficient. ## Context Seven co-defendants were convicted in the same group. Mauro Cid and Braga Netto remain unresolved. He did not sit as a justice. 8 January 2023 and TSE 30 June 2023 are parents. House arrest 2026 is a child. Keep STF First Panel convicts Bolsonaro 4–1 and sentences him to 27 years 3 months on 2025-09-11 separate from neighbouring 30 October 2022 runoff, 8 January 2023, TSE 30 June 2023, and STF 11 September 2025. The president of Brazil is head of state and commander-in-chief. A former president can be tried by the STF. He does not sit as every 8 January rioter, as TSE, or as a five-justice panel. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the live husk; this run does not mint a cleaner twin. ## Evidence and sources Agência Brasil carries the official instrument or communique. The New York Times records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is bolsonaro-jan8-prosecution: a completed STF conviction for leading a coup plot. ## What is established and what is not Established: The First Panel convicted him 4–1 on 11 September 2025 and sentenced him to 27 years 3 months; Fux dissented. Not established: A unique later served term after the suspended reduction law, or that a five-justice panel is a unique later nullity without a full-court vacatur. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. PGR prosecuted. He was the named leader. Fux recorded a dissent.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies STF First Panel convicts Bolsonaro 4–1 and sentences him to 27 years 3 months, not a later speech about STF First Panel convicts Bolsonaro 4–1 and sentences him to 27 years 3 months. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. STF First Panel convicts Bolsonaro 4–1 and sentences him to 27 years 3 months on 2025-09-11 is not a licence to treat every later Agência Brasil communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average STF First Panel convicts Bolsonaro 4–1 and sentences him to 27 years 3 months into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to STF judged. PGR prosecuted. He was the named leader. Fux recorded a dissent. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Jair Bolsonaro: https://factrail.ai/people/jair-bolsonaro ## Drivers - Bolsonaro 8 January and coup-plot prosecution: https://factrail.ai/drivers/bolsonaro-jan8-prosecution - Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power ## Sources - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/americas/bolsonaro-convicted-coup-attempt.html - https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/justica/noticia/2025-09/bolsonaro-sentenced-27-years-prison-coup-plot ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/br-bolsonaro-stf-2025