Brazil's Supreme Court on Friday began weighing former president Jair Bolsonaro's appeal against a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup, with two judges upholding the jail term.

The 70-year-old far-right firebrand was found guilty by the same court in September of attempting to prevent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking power.

Prosecutors said the plan failed only due to a lack of support from military top brass.

Alexandre de Moraes, who presided over the trial, was the first of the panel of four judges to cast his vote electronically, and wrote that arguments by Bolsonaro's lawyers to have his sentence reduced were "without merit".

Moraes, in a 141-page document seen by AFP, rejected defense claims they had been given an overwhelming amount of documents and digital

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