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...scientist who has spent many hours at the prosecution desk, twirling strands of long, dark hair in her fingers and scowling at the defense team's scientific experts. Stefanoni is highly regarded within the Italian legal system, having passed a series of stringent state tests to join the national Polizia Scientifica in Rome. One of her chief antagonists is defense expert Sara Gino, a whiz-kid forensic expert from Turin who charges that Stefanoni cherry-picked DNA results to profile the suspects, ignoring vast amounts of other biological material. Gino also alleges that Stefanoni lied about test results that didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tough Women of the Amanda Knox Case | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...crooked that none of them can drive straight. They wreck cars, argue with each other, assault fat ladies on the Turin buses and infuriate the Mafia by treading on its turf. Throughout, Charlie's eyes remain at half-mast; his lassitude finally lulls the crooks, the polizia-and the audience. Caine and Coward play a splendid game of verbal tennis, but by the final reel the laughs are lost in an anthology of dull and deafening car chases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Britannia Waives the Rules | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...Madonna Street gang, led by Vittorio Gassman, latches onto a big deal in Milan, and Capannelle gets a cut of the caper-probably because he is willing to work for peanuts. Everything that can possibly go wrong, does. At one point, while Capannelle keeps an eye peeled for the polizia, another member of the gang steals a parked car, drives exactly eleven inches, feels a mighty thump, realizes red-faced that one rear wheel is gone-the car was standing on a jack. In the end, Capannelle & Co. cop the swag, a matter of 80 million lire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Man & His Tapeworm | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...agente di polizia stopped the fight, arrested Mr. Abbott for having "spoken disrespectfully in public of Premier Mussolini." His mother, sister, uncle testified that the whole affair was a "frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Odist Attacked | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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