Overview

• Andrea Sempio removed longtime attorney Massimo Lovati and installed Liborio Cataliotti alongside Angela Taccia to reshape the defense in the Garlasco case.
• Lovati’s lawyer, Fabrizio Gallo, publicly asserted the Vigevano receipt underpinning Sempio’s alibi is false and argued Lovati’s past work kept Sempio out of jail.
• The reconstituted team named new forensic experts, including geneticist Denise Albani, while consultant Armando Palmegiani argued the DNA attributed to Sempio could reflect contamination.
• Reports say the fingernail trace known as “impronta 33” was excluded from the incidente probatorio and may exist only as a photograph, as Pavia prosecutors continue their analyses.
• Cataliotti signaled a strategy that disengages from Alberto Stasi’s role and characterized the mid-hearing change of course as deliberate and technically driven.