Looks like this news is from late last week, but it appears several of the scientists who were charged and convicted with crimes related to the 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake in Italy have won their cases now. There is still one gentleman involved in the matter as far as having charges that still appear to be applying. Bernardo De Barnardinis, the Deputy Head of Italys Civil Protection Department had his conviction endorsed by this Appeals Tribunal and may be facing further action by the courts there.
What appears to have happened, although the news is saying the courts do not have to release their opinions for another ninety days, yet, is that the scientists who have been at best disgruntled by the original decision came to the appeal armed with a lot of the best attorneys in the country with their main objective being to weigh the scales of the balance of justice a little more in their favor! How that works is the lawyer, say for one of the guys who did not actually say much at the Major Risks Committee meeting where these original crimes took place, would say something like if my client absolutely had nothing to do with the decision, then in reality no law had actually been violated by his receiving a letter telling him to be at the meeting. Conversely the ultimate decision to release such statements to the public were neither acted upon due to one particular scientist who never even spoke or gave his own opinion at that meeting. On appeal it looks like these points were sufficiently read onto the record and the judge and or jury understood the whole situation much more clearly and released the scientists who were the least responsible for the resulting actions of this Mayor and the committee or whomever did what as a result of that big meeting.
There will still remain at least one Civil Protection gentleman on the stand and probably going to be remaining in some trouble while those others who have now received a fair shake at their appeals. . . . . can only wait for the prosecutor to APPEAL their charges having been overturned. This will probably result in another hearing which it sounds like they must have had last week. During such an appeal, a prosecutor might make basically the same pleas to a new jury with the hope of holding some or possibly yet all of those scientists accountable for what happened as a result of the meeting, albeit guilt by having just been there. Probably by no means the last you've heard of this matter.
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And, for those of you who might have read this far through todays EQ Blog looking for something more in the way of Earthquake News. . . I have to report that now BOTH of those two big swarms at Northeast Nevada, and Northwest California seem to be continuing at a furious pace and anything can yet happen! There have been several smaller shakers around San Francisco and Oakland including 2.8 Richters early Monday Morning with one felt report each from Oakland, Berkeley, and Frisco. November New Moon coming more towards the end of the week but we should watch those places for a Major Earthquake through this week! EQ Guy
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