Chapter 50
The ruling
(Third person)
DRIIN!!
The bell that accompanied the judges’ entrance in the courtroom rang once.
The air was thick with tension.
Riccio, who had paced back and forth all the time they had been in chambers, suddenly stopped and positioned himself with his hands clinging to the bars of his little cell.
Tancredi and Ferrari stood up and De Nicola did the same.
The crowd of people, who a little earlier had poured out into the corridors, immediately returned.
Pisani ordered the policeman, on guard in the back of the courtroom, to calm everyone down and asked for silence.
What was going to happen? Would Riccio be sentenced to life imprisonment? Would he ever see his girlfriend again. Had the prosecution made any mistakes in handling the trial? And why did the jur
