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Court-Appointed Experts Tell Milan Appeals Court Pifferi Was Fully Responsible

Judges weigh a six-month psychiatric evaluation that identified residual fragility without impairing legal capacity.

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.