Emergency anti-protest legislation quietly enabled plea-bargain prosecutions

Evidence

It wasn’t much noticed in the flurry of changes, but Lei 12.850/2013 would modify the rules for investigating “criminal organizations.” Most importantly, it made possible the widespread use of delações premiadas, or plea bargain deals, as long as the targets were defined correctly. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 440

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: US influence transplanted plea bargaining into Brazil’s civil-law system; The law passed after Brazil’s 2013 protests enabled the later plea-bargain prosecutions — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 605

Broader Connections

• The law passed after Brazil’s 2013 protests enabled the later plea-bargain prosecutions #corroborates (0.95) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 605