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Bolsonaro Lawyers Tell Brazil Court Acquittal 'Imperative'

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, seen here inside his house in Brasilia on Tuesday, is not attending the close of his trial for coup plotting (Credit: AFP)

The defense team of Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro told the close of his trial for coup plotting on Wednesday that an acquittal was "imperative" to avoid what it presented as a potential miscarriage of justice.

"An acquittal is absolutely imperative so that we don't have our version of the Dreyfus case," lawyer Paulo Cunha Bueno told the Supreme Court, referring to the infamous case of a Jewish French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894.

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