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Italy quake experts win appeal
Seven Italian scientists who faced jail for failing to predict a deadly 2009 earthquake have been cleared of manslaughter convictions that had sparked international outrage.
The seven men were sentenced to six years in jail in October 2012 after a court in the medieval town of L'Aquila found them guilty of causing multiple deaths by having negligently downplayed the risk of the town being hit by a major earthquake just days before the killer tremor struck in April 2009.
But after a month-long appeal trial in the mountain town east of Rome, that verdict was on Monday overturned by a panel of three judges which concluded that six of the seven had committed no crime
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Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/technology/2014/11/11/03/49/italy-quake-experts-win-appeal
The seven men were sentenced to six years in jail in October 2012 after a court in the medieval town of L'Aquila found them guilty of causing multiple deaths by having negligently downplayed the risk of the town being hit by a major earthquake just days before the killer tremor struck in April 2009.
But after a month-long appeal trial in the mountain town east of Rome, that verdict was on Monday overturned by a panel of three judges which concluded that six of the seven had committed no crime
...
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/technology/2014/11/11/03/49/italy-quake-experts-win-appeal
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