Posted on 02/15/2011 4:33:12 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Milan, Italy (CNN) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be tried on charges of sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power, an Italian judge ruled Tuesday.
The trial is due to begin April 6, Judge Cristina di Censo decided, Italian judicial authorities confirmed.
Three judges will preside over the criminal trial in Milan.
Prosecutors in Milan filed the request for trial last week.
Berlusconi denies the charges, and his lawyers have argued that the Milan courts do not have the authority to try a prime minister or jurisdiction over the case because of where the alleged crimes were committed.
Milan chief prosecutor Edmundo Bruti Liberati requested the fast-track trial on charges that Berlusconi paid for sex with nightclub dancer Karima El Mahrough, who was 17 at the time of the alleged activity, and later intervened with the police after she was arrested on an unrelated charge.
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Well, i wonder if the prime minister had any thing to do with making the stupid law that got him in trouble.
Three judges preside? No jury trial?
His political opponents try him every time he gets in office. It is sort of like what democrats do here when there is a republican president.
When Bill Clinton faced censure for similar “indiscretions”, we were told that the European press was “puzzled and amused” by the American obsession with something that what was “merely about sex”.
Apparently, the “Women’s Movement” in Italy is not amused...
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