In front of the fourth criminal section of the Court of Appeal of Rome, the hearing of the review process of the life sentence imposed on pastor Beniamino Zuncheddu di Burcei, in prison for 31 years because he was held responsible for the triple murder and attempted, is scheduled today murder committed in the mountains between Sinnai and Burcei on January 8, 1991 (Gesuino and Giuseppe Fadda, 57 and 25, owners of the Cuile is Coccus sheepfold, and their assistant Ignazio Pusceddu, 57, had been killed while Luigi Pinna had survived, son-in-law of the owner).
The judges must decide whether to admit the further evidence produced by the parties (Attorney General and defense attorney Mauro Trogu) or reject them and start the discussion (with a request for acquittal or confirmation of the sentence).
Among the controversial points is the transcription of the wiretapping arranged by the Cagliari prosecutor as part of the new investigation into the massacre, which aims to discover any accomplices of the killer. Dialogues between the survivor and his wife largely at the basis of the request for revision: the lawyer considered the translations made by the expert appointed by the judges inadequate, according to him missing passages considered fundamental which, conversely, were heard and transcribed by his consultants and the carabinieri.
So, together with the attorney general and the same lawyer Maria Alessandra del Rio, he asked for a supplement of expertise which, however, has not been followed up at the moment.
IN THE CLASSROOM - Beniamino Zuncheddu is not there, the transfer to Rome for a semi-free prisoner in this pandemic period is complicated and then the person concerned and the lawyer Trogu preferred to leave him in Cagliari and ask for the video conference.
The hearing began at 12.38 with an immediate council chamber to dissolve some reservations on the requests presented by the defense, after the connection with Zuncheddu. The judges must decide on the admission of the new evidence requested by the PC and the lawyer (documents and CDs with wiretapping).
The Court leaves at 13.39 and pronounces the order: there are three different versions of the transcripts of the dialogues between the survivor and his wife, and so to eliminate any doubts "it is necessary to entrust a new assignment" to resume work and translate into Italian all wiretaps, largely at the basis of the review request.
Then, there will be a new appraisal which will be assigned to another professional to be appointed at the hearing on March 22.
