Politics Key Facts —The move. Speaker Hugo Motta named Mendonça Filho to write the report on an amendment cutting the age of adult criminal liability from 18 to 16. —The clock. The 38-member committee begins work in the second week of August, after the parliamentary recess. —The first hurdle. The judiciary committee cleared the text […] The post Brazil Revives Its Plan to Try 16-Year-Olds as Adults appeared first on The Rio Times.