Perfectly understandable, I often do the same.
What I was able to dig up, mostly from an Italian from the Northeast, is that is not the case, that in fact it's frowned upon by many. However it is utilized sometimes against wealthy defendants, othertimes because the Italian justice system is often lenient in sentencing and this allows for a voice to ensure there is as stringent as sentence as possible. I will gladly review additional information on this subject however, it is tough to come by in English. I fear the amount of Google-translated Italian I have consumed following this debate may be injurious to my mental health.
My impression reading the transcripts was different. He would be the one initialed 'FM' wouldn't he?
I got a different impression, that he was trying to ensure the jury heard just about every last detail of the 'Foxy Knoxy' smear without appearing to endorse it. Perhaps in his cultured Florentine accent he sounds less like a sleazoid, I was limited to merely reading the words he spoke.
The more I learned of it the less surprised I was when I found out it was second only to the heirs of Byzantium in
violations before the ECHR. Reading the Massei Report and about the trial prepared me for the fact that it's not just length of proceedings which are absurd, but also the denial of the right to a fair trial, which as you can
see they dominate all full EU members. It also did not surprise me to find that the other Inquisitorial system was the other outlier.
I find it telling that the board that adopted the Inquisitorial approach degenerated into near lunacy, generating absurd conspiracy theories, whereas the thread here which relied on an adversarial approach predicated on evidence-based argument has instead actually been ahead of the curve regarding ToD, the DNA evidence and EDFs not being released, the press suppression surrounding this case, the lies of Mignini and the police, amongst others. What is 'conspiracy' to others is merely a banal case of corruption in a dysfunctional system rampant with it to the pleasure of no one, but it has become pretty apparent to many that is what occurred. The true 'conspiracy theory' was the 'hypothesis' of Mignini and the Massei Report which is constructed employing the same devices.
Incidentally I am not delighted with our justice system which I think was best summed up by the line 'Can't help but make you feel ashamed, to live in a land where justice is a game' as obviously that's prone to abuse too, which you can see myriad examples of posted back on these threads. Ironically before I ever got interested in this case I used to dream idly of better ways to do things, and some of them incorporated portions of the Italian System. Unfortunately having seen how relying on 'incorruptible' people with no or limited oversight actually works out in the real world I've had to reconsider.
I don't have the answers either, but certainly I've seen the Italian system is amongst the worst of all possible worlds regarding justice, not just in this case but overall as well. From my research I've found it's a Franco/Ecclesiastic/Roman/Fascist system papered over with well-meaning reforms and subject to just about no legitimate oversight which has caused it to lose touch with reality. Going through how 'logic' is employed in this case causes me to understand how the Italian Court System was described by Economist magazine as 'intellectually corrupt.'
Certainly!
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My suspicion is the dysfunctional Italian Court System is overloaded and understaffed which causes it to rely far too heavily on police which removes the necessary oversight it must provide making it a fertile nest for corruption to flourish. That doesn't mean every single place in Italy is affected, or that all Italian police and prosecutors are corrupt, merely that it doesn't have the necessary checks to prevent it, and in places like Perugia it has become rampant, which in part led to this debacle. Dude, it's Chicago.
Where I come from we have a saying, 'There's truth, there's justice, and then there's the Chicago Way.'
What is the process for police complaints? Without getting slapped with a
calunnia charge or a
diffamazione suit I mean?
Amnesty International already is aware, their warning has been posted numerous times in this thread. I think perhaps you might be trying to bite off more than you can chew, we've been working on Chicago for more than a century!
The EU will sort it out eventually, that's their fish to fry. This case might help highlight just how ridiculous it's gotten, but who knows if it will do any good in the near future. Most of them will probably escape justice for the near term, I just outline it as it was necessary for me to understand how such a pathetic case could get through
any court, and not be crucified by the press. It's simple, a dishonest deluded prosecutor can get basically anything he wants through at least trial of the first instance in Italy, and the press has been cowed by slander suits so for the most part they just lick the boots of the police for tidbits of juicy sleaze.
Thankfully this is starting to end, but it was necessary for the first conviction. They didn't question hardly
anything! All the unbelievable errors and mistakes released to the press, along with outright lies should have been exposed long before now, it's just too bad it took so long considering the lives ruined.
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She seems to have hitched her career to a boat anchor, from the trial all I can recall for sure is the imaginary phone call, and that could have been an error or just sharp practice, I am unsure. She should have tried to straighten Mignini out when he went off the reservation, however now perhaps her life will be defined by it.
I don't speak Italian. That's my way of saying:
"Asps,
verrrrry dangerous. You go first!"
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I often wonder what might have happened had the
Carabinieri come before the Postal Police got there.
