With sentence no. 86 filed on 13 May 2024, the Constitutional Court has made a significant change to the crime of robbery, introducing a mitigation of the sentence in the presence of circumstances that reduce its severity. The Constitutional Court declared the constitutional illegitimacy of the art. 628,...

The mitigating circumstance of provocation is provided for in art. 62 n. 2 of the penal code and consists in "having acted in a state of anger caused by an unjust act of another person". First of all, the extenuating circumstance in speech is a very different institution from provocation, i.e. the cause of justification provided for by art. 599 comma 2 c.p. ....

The mitigating circumstance of provocation is provided for in art. 62 n. 2 of the penal code and consists in "having acted in a state of anger caused by an unjust act of another person". First of all, the extenuating circumstance in speech is a very different institution from provocation, i.e. the cause of justification provided for by art. 599 comma 2...