A Brazilian judge on Wednesday returned the first not-guilty vote in the coup-plotting trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro, shifting all eyes on the last two of his colleagues left to vote following two guilty findings.
Justice Luiz Fux labeled the trial as "political" in a verdict he read over more than nine hours.
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