And it happened: Berlusconi was not condemned

So you have a crime that was ascertained: a rich man had bribed a witness to influence his depositions. The person bribed was condemned. The corrupter was not. http://aprile25.blogspot.com/2012/02/berlusconi-is-innocent.html#links
The condemned one was one of Berlusconi's lawyers. The corrupter was Berlusconi.
The Tribunal had the choice of acquitting Berlusconi or of declaring that the terms for judging the crime had expired.
The Tribunal chose the second option an indirect way to declare that it had found Berlusconi guilty but could not condemn him due to the terms that had expired. Why so ? because of the laws Berlusconi had promulgated to reduce the terms for judging certain crimes and because his lawyers successfully managed to delay the proceedings.

But Belrusconi was found guilty ! He escaped once more but we will get him with other pending trials.

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BERLUSCONI IS INNOCENT !

Once again today, Berlusconi will be acquitted for witness corruption charges.

A British lawyer, M. Mills, was already condemned for being bribed by Berlusconi for making false declarations. In other words, Berlusconi was already found guilty, indirectly.

He could not be judged at the same time as his lawyer, because of the many laws in his favor he made his Parliament approve, like in any Banana Republic. But now the trial arrives to an end.

The judgement is expected today. And it will be acquittal because the terms have expired, not because he is not guilty.

The terms have expired because of the laws he made the Parliament approve to shorten the terms and to declassify the crime of corruption. All laws in his favor only.

In other civilized countries, the terms expire if no trial has commenced. Once the trial has started, the terms do not expiry. Not in Italy. So if you are a politician or if you are rich, you can manage to pay good lawyers who know how to delay the judgement until the terms have expired.

B (like Banana or Berlusconi) republic.

What Berlusconi fears, however, is that the Tribunal will acquit him with a statement to the effect that although guilty he cannot be condemned due to the terms that have expired. He is scared to death and has kept issuing all kind of declarations these days.

Because there are other trials going on and this one can be the first of many where the judges state that he is guilty.

Let us see what will happen.....

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GUILTY

A couple of days ago, the Corte di Cassazione (third grade tribunal) declared that Mr, Mills, a British lawyer, who had been condemned for passive corruption, did not have to be prosecuted because of time limits. But they did recognize the fact that corruption had taken place and condemned Mr Mills to pay about 200,000 $ fine to the Italian government.

He could not be legally prosecuted because of a law, passed by Berlusconi’s government, that reduced the terms of prosecution of corruption from 15 to 10 years.

In other words, Mr. Mills could not be prosecuted because the law on corruption is unenforceable du to time limit.

This is quite different from acquittal which is a judgement of not guilty. Of course.

But the main TV public channel, Rai 1, stated twice, during his main news broadcast, that Mr. Mills had been acquitted (they could not explain however how someone acquitted had to pay 200,000$ of fine).

Is the public channel full of ignorant people who ignore the meaning of words ? possibly. But more likely, they just tried to do a cover up.

Why ? because the corruptor is Berlusconi and the Director of Rai 1, a certain Minzolini, is a slave of the former.

In any other democracy, the Prime Minister, or even a Minister of Member of Parliament, would have resigned. Not in Italy, of course. It is well known that Berlusconi is victimized by Taliban like judges (his statement of 26 February 2010). But GUILTY he remains


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