The Brescia appeals court on
Tuesday rejected a request to review Alberto Stasi's conviction
for the murder of his girlfriend Chiara Poggi in August 2007.
Stasi is serving a 16-year jail term for the murder, which
was committed in the Italian town of Garlasco.
Stasi's lawyers filed the petition in December on the basis
of a private investigation that had allegedly found that the DNA
under Poggi's nails was of one of her brother's friends.
The appeals court found the request groundless.
The Pavia prosecutor's office recently upheld a request to
reopen the case filed by Stasi's mother.
Poggi's brother's friend, Andrea Sempio, has been put under
investigation in a fresh probe, sources said, after traces of
his DNA were - according to an analysis ordered by the defense
team - found under the victim's nails.
The Poggi family lawyers, Gian Luigi Tizzoni and Francesco
Compagna, said in a statement that Italy's supreme Court of
Cassation acknowledged that expert analysis during the trial
regarding DNA under the victim's fingernails showed that "it
wasn't possible to make any consideration on the topic of
identity or of exclusion, as the defendant's defense team has
acknowledged several times".
Tizzoni and Compagna also specified that the current Milan
general prosecutor hasn't accepted as "founded" Stasi's mother's
request for review, and that any request for review would come
under the authority of judiciary officials in nearby Brescia.
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