Surprised with a metal baseball bat: 57-year-old from Manfredonia acquitted

StatoQuotidiano.it, Manfredonia May 15, 2022. In recent days, it ended positively with a sentence of acquittal because the fact did not exist issued by the Court of Foggia criminal section because the accused, the Manfredonian Rignanese G. (57 years) with a police history, had made himself responsible for the crime of port unjustified instrument capable of offending for having been found in possession of a sledgehammer baseball in metal, according to the provisions of law 110/75 which governs weapons.

The facts date back to August 2020 when the Carabinieri of Manfredonia during their patrol service, at the first light of dawn noticed the Rignanese while driving an Ape car, perform an anomalous maneuver.

From here, the military, after having stopped the Rignanese who appeared to be subjected to probationary assignment of the social service with obligations, carried out a personal and vehicular search of the same which ended with a positive result for the discovery of a metal club held without Justified reason.

The Court of Foggia at the outcome of the indictment of the Public Prosecutor which concluded with a request for 4 months of arrest and the outcome of the defense pleading with the lawyer. Matteo Ciociola defender of the accused, accepted the defensive thesis of the lawyer Ciociola who remarked that in the specific case the constitutive elements of the crime were lacking since the club found inside the cockpit of the vehicle was not in his possession and certainly did not constitute an object of the act to offend, being small and harmless as well as being freely sold.

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