ROME. No to the review of the trial for Alberto Stasi, definitively sentenced to 16 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Chiara Poggi, which took place in Garlasco on 13 August 2007. The first criminal section of the Supreme Court, after a council chamber held today, he rejected Stasi’s appeal against the decision of the Brescia Court of Appeal of 2 October last, in which the request for review presented by his defense was declared inadmissible.
The defense of Stasi had presented the request for revision on the basis of new elements – among these, fingerprints on a soap dispenser, hair on the sink, and circumstances relating to a testimony – but the Court of Appeal of Brescia, with the order challenged by Stasi in Cassation, had stated that they were not to be considered “new evidence” for the purposes of a review and that they did not affect the circumstantial elements at the basis of the conviction, which became final in December 2015. Now we will have to wait for the filing of the sentence – which usually takes place within a month – to find out the reasons for this evening’s decision of the Supreme Court. Stasi – who had been acquitted in the first two levels of judgment (with an abbreviated procedure) and, after the annulment with postponement of the Cassation in 2013, sentenced on appeal-bis (sentence confirmed in the Supreme Court) – is still detained in the Milan prison Branded.
“The numerous attempts to overturn the outcome of the trial carried out in recent years have had no effect – said Gian Luigi Tizzoni, lawyer of Chiara Poggi’s family -. The decision of the Supreme Court confirms once again the responsibility of Alberto Stasi beyond any reasonable doubt ».