Carlo Biotti (1901 – 10 December 1977) was an Italian

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, the President of the Court of Milan and a Magistrate of the

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. His forced recusal from the case brought by the widow of

Giuseppe Pinelli Giuseppe "Pino" Pinelli (21 October 1928 – 15 December 1969) was an Italian railroad worker and anarchist, who died while being detained by Italian police in 1969. Pinelli was a member of the Milan-based anarchist association named Ponte ...

against the police commissioner

Luigi Calabresi Luigi Calabresi (14 November 1937 – 17 May 1972) was an Italian Police officer in Milan assassinated by far-left terrorists. This was one of the most important murders during the historical period of social turmoil and political violence in It ...

in 1971 became a ''

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''. Biotti was the presiding judge in the case brought by the widow of

against the police commissioner

. Calabresi had led the investigation into the Piazza Fontana bombing. Pinelli died in mysterious circumstances during a police interrogation following the bombing. On 27 May 1971, Biotti was recused at the request of Calabresi's lawyer, who claimed that in a private conversation Biotti had admitted that for career reasons he had already formed an opinion on the case.De Luna, Giovanni (2009)
''Le ragioni di un decennio: 1969–1979; Militanza, violenza, sconfitta, memoria''
(in Italian). Milan: Feltrinelli. .De Rosa, Giuseppe (6 February 1972)
I problemi della giustizia in Italia
(in Italian). ''La Civiltà Cattolica'' 2919: 271–282. It was a claim that Biotti vehemently denied. Calabresi's attorney sought the recusal when Biotti ordered that Pinelli's body be exhumed. Neither Biotti nor his two fellow judges were convinced that Pinelli had died from falling from the police station window. His forced recusal not only prevented the exhumation of Pinelli's body, but delayed the investigation for two years. Biotti fought for years to clear his name and in November 1974 was completely exonerated by the Court of Florence.''

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'' (17 November 1974)
"Il giudice Biotti assolto a Firenze con formula piena"
/ref> He died three years later at the age of 76. In the 2012 film '' Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy'', the character of Carlo Biotti is played by Bob Marchese. From 1964 Biotti was also a director of A.C. Milan.Carlo Biotti
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