Overview
- The court-appointed trio—Giacomo Francesco Filippini, Nadia Bolognini and Stefano Benzoni—testified that Alessia Pifferi had full capacity to understand and will her actions in July 2022.
- The perizia described outcomes of a neurodevelopmental disorder with sectorial cognitive fragility and affective immaturity that did not significantly affect functioning or responsibility.
- Stefano Benzoni noted a hypothetical childhood mild intellectual disability as a possibility but said documentation is insufficient to substantiate it.
- Defense consultant Pietro Pietrini contended there was a partial mental defect and cited a reported IQ score of 64.
- The appeals court set 22 October for the ruling in the case, which challenges a first-instance life sentence.