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Gateway to Justice. Last week, after a thorough restudy of the evidence, Public Prosecutor Cesare Palminteri marched into the Renaissance courtroom on Venice's Grand Canal-and demolished his own case. Anna Maria Caglio, he said flatly, was a liar-"a perfidious woman intent on vengeance and dedicated to mud-slinging." The fact was, declared Palminteri, that "there is absolutely no evidence, direct or indirect, against Piero Piccioni." He hinted broadly that the police would want to talk some more with Uncle Giuseppe ("What is he hiding?"). Then he asked that the charges be dropped against Piccioni...
...Palminteri's decision-all the more convincing because it was reluctant-lifted the shadow of corruption from Italy's Demo-Christian government. Wrote Rome's Messaggero: "Of all the terrible suspicions which tormented public opinion nothing is left: no orgies, no white slavery, no boatloads of prostitutes, nothing." But before the Montesi affair could finally be left to history a new inquiry was in order: How satisfactory was a system of justice which forced Piero Piccioni to suffer three years of public humiliation and judicial jeopardy on the basis of gossip alone...