We´ve got Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson. Italy´s got Patrizia Reggiani, the wife of murdered fashion scion Maurizio Gucci. She´s in the joint for 26 years for commissioning a hitman to cap Gucci in Milano back in 1995. Her 1998 trial was a hyper-theatrical affair, and kept the country spellbound with lots of scandal, embarrassing revelations, and even a bit of the supernatural thrown in.
Imagine if they retried OJ. Well that´s the Italian equivalent, as Patrizia´s retrial is about to commence in the Court of Appeals in Venice. Her daughters managed to get a re-hearing on the basis that Patrizia may not have been sane at the time of the offing. Seems that she had a brain tumor removed in 1992, and with it, perhaps, the part of cerebrum that prevents you from ordering a contract hit on your spouse. One little slip of the scalpel and, batta boom, you´re on the phone to the La Cosa Nostra. There but for the grace of God ...
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