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Brazil's Ex-President Bolsonaro Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor
Brazil's Ex-President Bolsonaro Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor
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Joao Velloso (English, French & Portuguese)
Associate Professor, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law
Professor Velloso’s research focuses on penal policies and use of mixed legal regimes in the governance of deviance and security.
“It was a technical decision, and in line the own court jurisprudence prioritizing the use of measures alternative to (pre-trial) detention (e.g.: electronic monitoring, curfew, house arrest, no contact and zone restriction orders, etc.); that is, the court could have ordered his detention, but it didn’t.”