Italian Court Asked to Acquit Berlusconi
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Defense lawyers asked an Italian court on Friday to acquit Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges, denying prosecutors' accusations that he bribed judges in the 1980s to favor his business empire.
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MILANO - I giudici della Prima Sezione Penale del Tribunale di Milano: Silvio Berlusconi Ã¨ stato prosciolto per avvenuta prescrizione da uno dei capi di imputazione al processo Sme. Assoluzione con formula piena per gli altri capi di imputazione.
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was cleared today by a Milan court of charges that he bribed judges in the 1980s.
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Italy's president said Tuesday he needed more time to decide his next step after conservative leader Silvio Berlusconi demanded early elections following the premier's resignation last week.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could be convicted of corruption with judges in his five-year trial considering their verdict.
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A Milan court yesterday went behind closed doors to consider a verdict in the trial of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy&#39;s prime minister, who is accused of corrupting judges in a case involving his
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Italy&#39;s billionaire Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, faces the most testing judgment of his political life today, when three judges in Milan are expected to decide whether he is guilty of corruption.
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Italy launches an inquiry into claims that former PM's Silvio Berlusconi tried to rig April's general election.
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An Italian prosecutor is asking a court to sentence Silvio Berlusconi to eight years in jail for bribing judges.
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A panel absolved Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy of corruption charges, ending a trial that had dragged on for more than four years.
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A judge in Milan, northern Italy, has decided to commit former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi for trial on charges of tax fraud, false accounting and misuse of company assets.
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Members of Italy's centre-right government want a poet stripped of his senatorship for comparing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Italy's Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
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ROME, Nov 12  - A state prosecutor called Friday on a Milan court to impose an eight-year jail sentence on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of bribing judges.
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An attempt by Italy's former Prime  Minister Silvio Berlusconi to delay his corporate fraud trial  suffered a setback on Wednesday with a decision that the trial  judge should stay on the case.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi takes legal action over what he called damaging allegations made against him.
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&quot;Silvio Berlusconi ha violato la legge per anni come imprenditore, aveva a libro paga alcuni giudici romani e come presidente del Consiglio Ã¨ venuto qui in aula a mentire, ha mentito a tutto il popolo italiano dichiarando cose non corrispondenti al vero.
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The decision by a Milan court to clear Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of a raft of corruption charges marks the end of a decade-long legal battle and perhaps the beginning of a more peaceful era for Italian politics.