The date for the hearing in the Court of Cassation was set after the appeal filed by the Deputy Attorney General Maurizio Salamone against the acquittal appeal sentence for the case of Lavinia Marano, the well-known 44-year-old singer who died in 2016 at the Polyclinic after giving birth to her child. The judges of the fourth criminal section will deal with it on February 25th.
On May 7th, the appeals court presided over by Judge Carmelo Blatti acquitted the four doctors in the trial with the formula “because the fact is not foreseen by law as a crime”. The head of the Gynecology and Obstetrics UOC of the Onofrio Triolo Polyclinic and the doctors Roberta Granese, Antonio Denaro and Vittorio Palmara were therefore exonerated – the qualifications refer to the time of the facts. The judges actually applied the Balduzzi law, according to which the doctor who follows the intervention guidelines is not liable for the hypothesis of slight negligence. Also in May, the acquittal was also confirmed for the other white coats, already acquitted at first instance with the formula “for not having committed the crime”: the doctors Rosario D’Anna and Tomasella Quattrocchi, the anesthetist on duty at the Pasquale Vazzana ward, the midwives Angelina Lacerna Russo and Serafina Villari, the nurse Maria Grazia Pecoraro.
