According to rumors, they won't be in court, but tomorrow the Court of Appeal in Sassari will immediately begin a battle over the convictions of Ciro Grillo, Francesco Corsiglia, Edoardo Capitta, and Vittorio Lauria. The second-degree trial begins regarding the alleged rape of a Milanese student in her early twenties. Tomorrow, the reporting judge will present the case to the magistrates of the Court of Appeal.
The Attorney General's Office will be represented by Marco Nassi. The defense will request a new investigation into the events that occurred in Porto Cervo, at the Grillo family's villa, between July 16 and 17, 2019. The grounds of appeal include a flurry of challenges raised by the lawyers to the validity of the Tempio Tribunal's conviction: violation of the right to a fair hearing and the right to an adversarial process, flawed reasoning, flawed evidence, and a failure to properly assess the evidence. Among the issues is the revocation of the testimony of a young Norwegian man who had been falsely accused of rape by the victim in the Grillo case, according to him.
The defense considers the boy a key witness unjustly excluded from the trial, someone who could have called into question the credibility of the student, the main accuser of the four Genoa boys. The defense attorneys are Antonella Cuccureddu, Mariano Mameli, Ernesto Monteverde, Enrico Grillo, Andrea Vernazza, and Alessandro Vaccaro. The victim is represented by attorney Giulia Bongiorno, who, in a 700-page brief, has brought new arguments to the prosecution's case. It is not excluded that the alleged victim may be questioned again in court.