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Meanwhile, Rivera's brother, Michael Dancoff, said he and Emrich have agreed to ask the court to appoint him as Rivera's conservator because Emrich is moving to Washington state. Dancoff lives in Berkeley...........
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The Government has also drawn up a bill which would limit magistrates’ powers to use telephone intercepts as evidence which is often used to nail corrupt or organized crime linked politicians.
Not all the measures are on pure self-interest; in a case which reflects the Bush intervention in the Terry Schiavo case, the Government party passed a motion saying that Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction to allow a father to stop treatment on his daughter who has been in an irreversible coma for 16 years.
One way or another, the power and authority of the judiciary is being dismantled in favour of a populist executive which believes it should have total control and it doing its best to achieve it. There is much which needs reforming in the Italian judiciary but Berlusconi and his party have already completed their personal agenda to the serious detriment of Italy’s balance of state powers.
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