SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court has started the high-profile trial of the suspects allegedly behind the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver in 2018. Franco defended the human rights of Brazil’s marginalized communities and the crime shocked the country and turned the leftist politician into a global symbol of resistance. A panel of the court will rule based on charges against a member of a Rio government watchdog, Domingos Brazão; his assistant Robson Calixto Fonseca; former congressman Chiquinho Brazão; police investigator Rivaldo Barbosa and former police officer Ronald Paulo Alves Pereira. Franco, a Black and bisexual politician, was killed at age 38 in a drive-by shooting.