Brazil's top court rules against Da Silva's bid to avoid prison

Brazil's top court has voted narrowly to turn down an attempt by former president Luiz Inacio da Silva to stay out of jail while he appeals a corruption conviction.

After nearly 11 hours of often heated debate, the justices of the Supreme Federal Tribunal voted 6-5 to deny da Silva's preventative habeas corpus request to stave off a 12-year jail sentence while he fights a conviction in a case that he argues was nothing more than a ploy to keep him off of October's presidential ballot.