Collaboration between prosecution and judges [1] is not bullshit.
Also his judgement is not pending. Some charges were dropped by the new court because there were not enough evidences and the other case is now prescribed [2].
[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/04/brazil-crimi...
[2] https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/juiza-federal-do-df-reconh...
That's not the reason why he was cleared by the supreme court though. It says in all references it was because the court that tried him didn't have jurisdiction. The crimes didn't happen where he was tried.
> Some charges were dropped by the new court because there were not enough evidences and the other case is now prescribed
Wow.
I give up. I don't have the energy for this anymore.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/24/lula-judge-was...
Maybe that wasn't the final ruling that set him free, but it was a very important step into it.
He is corrupt and a criminal. Officials actually tried to censor these facts here in Brazil.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-30/lula-wins...
https://archive.ph/gINDU
> Lula was a wildly popular president before accusations of wrongdoing and fiscal mismanagement resulted in the impeachment of his hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff in 2016.
> By 2019, Lula was behind bars and facing a long prison sentence amid accusations he steered billions of state contracts to allies.
> Released on a technicality, it cleared the way for him to run last year after the Supreme Court quashed his convictions.