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The Italian mixed tribunal (corte d'assise) that tries the most serious criminal offences, composed of two professional judges and six lay judges drawn from the local citizenry, with a separate corte d'assise d'appello hearing appeals. A local corte d'assise sits in each judicial district; the Corte d'Assise of Perugia tried and convicted Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a verdict later overturned on appeal and definitively acquitted by the Supreme Court of Cassation.

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Italy (serious criminal offences, organized by judicial district) 1
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1. Wikipedia: Corte d'Assise
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The Corte d'Assise is composed of two professional judges and six lay judges.
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Wikipedia: Murder of Meredith Kercher (court reference)
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lay judges at the Corte d'Assise of Perugia.
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