Overview
- Only Gabriele Bianchi will return to the Court of Appeal for a third review focused on the mitigation that lowered his sentence.
- In March 2024, the second appeal reconfirmed life imprisonment for Marco and set 28 years for Gabriele based on in-prison progress.
- Judges cited Gabriele’s high-school diploma, enrollment at Tor Vergata, vocational courses, prison work, family ties, and a psychologist’s report as signs of change.
- The Supreme Court had already made other convictions final: 23 years for Francesco Belleggia and 21 years for Mario Pincarelli.
- This marks the second time the Cassation has sent aspects of the Bianchi brothers’ case back to the appellate court after initial life terms were issued in 2022.