Italy overturns Mills' verdict

Feb 25 2010

Italy's highest court has overturned a guilty verdict for British lawyer David Mills, who was accused of taking a bribe to lie in court to protect Premier Silvio Berlusconi.

The Court of Cassation determined that the statute of limitations had expired. The ruling is a major victory for Berlusconi, whose own trial on related corruption charges was put on hold pending the outcome of Mills's final appeal.

Prosecutor Gianfranco Ciani insisted that Mills took the bribe, but in a surprise move today recommended that his 2009 conviction be thrown out because the statute of limitations had expired.

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