Severino Santiapichi (26 May 1926 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian magistrate and writer.
Born in
Scicli,
Ragusa, he was the president of the
Courts of Assize in
Rome
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for about 20 years, notably presiding over the
Aldo Moro trial in 1978 and the
Pope John Paul II assassination attempt trial in 1981.
[Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. .] He was also, for several years, vice president of the Supreme Court in Somalia.
[ After the retirement, he wrote several non-fiction novels and was professor at the Kore University of Enna.]
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1926 births
2016 deaths
People from Scicli
20th-century Italian judges
Italian non-fiction writers
Italian male non-fiction writers
Writers from the Province of Ragusa
Jurists from Sicily
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