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Italian Court of Cassation

Italy's highest court.

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The Court of Cassation is Italy’s highest court.

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Italian warrants for IOR officials, 1987 17 Jul 1987 invalidated the arrest warrants Scholarship & press 1
Trial for the murder of Roberto Calvi turned down the prosecutor's appeal against the acquittals Scholarship & press 2

Paul Marcinkus 17 Jul 1987 arrest warrants invalidated for lack of Italian jurisdiction; the charges were not judged on the merits Scholarship & press 1 3
English summary of the Italian source: MilanoFinanza says the Court of Cassation agreed with the Vatican tribunal and the defence that Italian courts lacked jurisdiction, under Article 11 of the 1929 agreement between Italy and the Holy See, which bars Italian justice from reviewing the conduct of the Church's central bodies; prosecutors then challenged Article 11 and the Constitutional Court rejected the challenge as too late, without ruling on the merits. Catholic News Service: the Vatican tribunal said the treaty rules out Italian "interference" in central church agencies.

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Italian Court Invalidates Warrants For Three Vatican Bankers, The Georgia Bulletin (Catholic News Service), 23 Jul 1987. Scholarship & press Archived copy
The ruling July 17 by the Court of Cassation, Italy’s equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, specified that its decision was definitive, with no chance for further appeal.
“I’m happy, and I still have faith in justice,” Archbishop Marcinkus told National Catholic News Service from the Vatican.
It overturned a ruling by a lower appeals court
Calvi case shd be closed - prosecutors, ANSA, 7 Jul 2015. Scholarship & press
appealed those acquittals in December 2010 but was turned down by the high Court of Cassation
E' morto Mennini, finanziere dello Ior dell'era Marcinkus, MilanoFinanza. Scholarship & press
Nel mese di luglio dello stesso anno, la Corte di cassazione annullò i mandati di arresto, convenendo con quanto sostenuto sia dal tribunale vaticano che dai legali degli imputati riguardo al difetto di giurisdizione della magistratura italiana.
La Corte respinse la richiesta, giudicandola tardiva, ma evitò di pronunciarsi nel merito.

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