a Prodi government: center-left
12) 1998 Carotti
rules to accompany the "sole judge" established by the Minister Flick to streamline processes (removal of the Courts and their attorney, judge sitting alone for minor offenses) are grouped in the package Carotti (a member of the PPI), which prolongs the process. In fact adds a new trial stage to the four existing ones. After preliminary investigations, and before the preliminary hearing and the three levels of courts, is stuck on the "deposit of documents" (Article 415bis of the Code of Criminal Procedure). At the expiry of the investigation, rather than asking immediately for trial for the suspects, the prosecutor must notify them of a notice of closure of the investigation "with a summary of allegations and submit to them all the papers the investigation. The suspect has 20 days to request a hearing, submit documents and briefs, the public prosecutor ordered new investigations. So the prosecutor has to re-open the investigation for a few more months or years, and only at the end was finally able to prosecute. Resulting in increasingly broadening times already biblical justice, undermining the beneficial effect of the reform the single judge.
