Chapter 42
Sella
(Third person)
Pisani postponed the new summons by two days. A godsend for two defence lawyers in search of a breath of fresh air. The voices of children grappling with a football match on the pavement outside, mixed with the sounds of traffic, floated through the windows of Riccardo’s office, thrown open due to the sudden appearance of a strangely warm morning. Tancredi idly flipped through a manual by Mantovani, one of the masters of Italian criminal law, while Ferrari had just returned from a walk with his trusty Breton, Lucky.
‘I’m home’, said Ferrari.
‘Found it’, exclaimed Fabrizio waving the large tome around.
‘Found what?’
‘A way to exclude Aureli’s testimony from the record’
‘And how?’
‘Article 63 of the code of criminal procedure: "If someone who is not a
