The third criminal section of the Court of Appeal of Rome has acquitted the Neapolitan judge Alberto Capuano – defended by lawyers Alfonso Furgiuele and Alfredo Sorge – from the five charges of corruption in judicial documents for which he had been convicted in the first instance on 14 September 2021 by the Court of Rome.
The second-instance judges have requalified the former colleague from Ischia two charges of corruption in influence peddling and a third charge of attempted influence peddling. The sentence was then re-determined in four years and nine monthspractically halving the sentence imposed in the first instance which was eight years and ten months of imprisonment.
Requalifications and redeterminations of the sentence have affected everyone the other co-defendants, Of God, Cassini and Liccardo (defended by the lawyers Marco Campora, Francesco Cinque, Claudio Sforza, Domenico Dello Iacono, Aniello Cozzolino). For the defenders of judge Capuano the sentence “it constitutes an initial moment of rebalancing reality with the recognition of the non-existence of all the hypotheses of corruption in judicial acts contested and for which the coercive measure and then the first degree sentence had been issued at the time”.
The lawyers reserve the right to read the reasons for the sentence “and to appeal to the Supreme Court the guilty verdict for the crime of influence peddling, even in one of the three hypotheses identified in an attempted form”.
Article published on 17 April 2023 - 20:57
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