It can happen to anyone. When people realise this, they will be terrified.
Interview with Giada Bocellari, the lawyer who turned upside down our feelings about the Garlasco murder
Giada Bocellari managed to have the Garlasco case reopened by the sacrifice of 10 years of obstinate work, in the firm belief Alberto Stasi be innocent: ‘We women lawyers have an extra gear’.
In 2014, Giada Bocellari was 29 years old and had only been sworn in as a lawyer for three months when she found herself exposed on the hottest stage of the judicial scene that year: the appeal for the Garlasco murder, only defendant Alberto Stasi. That experience has punctuated her professional life – and disrupted her personal one – for each of the last 11 years.
In this interview – in my blog Branchie on ReWriters – we talk about her obstinacy in wanting to prove Stasi’s innocence, but also about the significance of the presence of lawyers and experts in TV studios, the lawyer-judge relationship, the specifics of being a woman, as well as reasonable doubt and restorative justice.
Together with Gabriele Bardazza, a consultant for the Prosecutor’s Office, Giada Bocellari is the protagonist of my book ‘Il Garbuglio di Garlasco’, which three years ago anticipated all the elements of today’s reopening of the investigation into that crime.