Renan Rocha da Silva was sentenced to 7 months in open detention for traffic crimes. The decision revoked his preventive detention.
The conviction occurred for unauthorized maneuver and driving without a license on the Rio-Bahia Highway. The charge of incitement to commit a crime expired.
The sentence is not related to the fatal collision with a Porsche in Teresópolis. The defense awaits judgment in this case and is confident of an acquittal.
Renan Rocha da Silva, known on social media as “Carioca Maluco” or “Renan do Grau”, was convicted of two traffic crimes in Teresópolis, in the Serrana region of Rio, in a case that was being processed in court.
The complaint from the Public Ministry of the state of Rio brought together three accusations: participation in a demonstration of dangerous maneuvers on public roads, driving without a license generating danger of harm and incitement to crime related to the publication of videos on social networks. This last charge involved 90 charges.
The sentence set a sentence of seven months in open detention, replaced by community service. With the decision, the preventive detention that had previously been ordered was revoked.
According to the defense lawyer, Renan remained at large after the preventive detention was ordered at the beginning of the process. "The action was prolonged because the Public Prosecutor's Office requested new steps from Meta, the company responsible for platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. Despite the responses provided by the company, the Public Prosecutor's Office considered the information insufficient and insisted on new requests."
At the end of the investigation phase, the Public Prosecutor's Office presented final arguments and requested Renan's conviction for all the crimes described in the complaint. The defense also presented the allegations and, according to the lawyer, the arguments were accepted almost in full in the sentence.
In the sentence, the Court did not convict Renan of incitement to crime, recognizing the extinction of punishment by prescription.
In relation to traffic crimes, there was a conviction for participating in an unauthorized maneuver on public roads, provided for in article 308 of the Brazilian Traffic Code, and for driving without a license with danger of damage, provided for in article 309.
The two convictions are related to a single episode involving a truck on the Rio-Bahia Highway. The sentence recognized that the two crimes resulted from the same conduct, ruling out the interpretation that there were several criminal episodes.
After the decision, the defense filed a motion for clarification, an appeal addressed to the judge responsible for the sentence. The main request is the recognition of the statute of limitations for the two traffic crimes for which Renan was convicted.
As an alternative request, the lawyers requested the application of criminal detention. According to the defense, before the preventive detention was ordered, Renan was subject to a precautionary measure of nighttime confinement. The lawyer maintains that the jurisprudence of the Superior Court of Justice allows this period to be considered for reducing the sentence, depending on the conditions imposed.
The defense asks that the night time spent in prison be converted into days of sentence and deducted from the punishment applied. "The objective is to prevent Renan from having to comply with any part of the sanction, either through recognition of the prescription or through the reduction resulting from the precautionary measure", says the lawyer.
The appeal is still awaiting judicial analysis. Until there is a new decision, the penalty of community service provision established in the sentence remains valid.
The Porsche case is different
The conviction for traffic crimes is not related to the accident that occurred on August 1, 2024, on BR-116, in Teresópolis, which resulted in the death of motorcyclist Adilson de Lima, aged 47.
At the time, the defense denied that Renan was driving the Porsche Boxster involved in the collision. In a report published by CNN Brasil, the lawyers stated that he had no role in the accident. It was reported that the Civil Police were looking for Renan during the investigations.
Regarding this process, the lawyer stated that there has not yet been a trial and declared: “There was no trial here and we are absurdly confident in the acquittal, the recording of the facts speaks for itself”.
Therefore, the sentence that revoked the preventive detention refers exclusively to the case for traffic crimes involving a maneuver with a truck and does not represent any judicial decision on the death of Adilson de Lima.
