Court defends delirious with jealousy murder acquittal
Fit amounted to pathology exculpating killer say Brescia judges
10 Dicembre 2020
BRESCIA, DEC 10 - A Brescia court on Thursday
defended its controversial acquittal of an 80-year-old man whose delirium of jealousy allegedly made him mentally incapacitated
when murdering his 75-year-old wife in the northern city last
year.
The jealous fit of the man, Antonio Gozzini, was so intense that
it constituted a pathological situation producing a radical
disconnect from reality, such as to bring a state of infirmity
which excludes, as an elementary principle of judicial culture,
all guilt , the court said after widespread condemnation of the
Legal experts agreed during the trial that Antonio Gozzini "was prey to an evident delirium of jealousy that destroyed his relationship with reality and determined an irresistible homicidal urge."