Overview

• The Tempio Pausania tribunal heard final defense replies this morning and the three-judge panel has retired to deliberate.
• The bench was regularized after the CSM applied Judge Alessandro Cossu to sit alongside presiding judge Marco Contu and judge Marcella Pinna.
• The principal accuser did not attend on the advice of her lawyer, Giulia Bongiorno.
• Defense teams urged full acquittal, arguing the sexual encounters were consensual and challenging the complainant’s credibility.
• The case concerns alleged group sexual violence at the Grillo family villa in Porto Cervo on July 16–17, 2019, with two young women identified in court documents under pseudonyms.