Scicluna acquitted of Cisse murder, convicted of grievous injury

MaltaToday reports that Lorin Scicluna was acquitted of the murder of Lassana Cisse but found guilty of grievously injuring another man.

On the evidence available here, that is the whole of the reportable development. It is still a consequential split verdict: an acquittal on the murder charge, a conviction on a separate count of grievous injury. Courts are supposed to make those distinctions count by count, and this one plainly did.

The limitation matters too. The MaltaToday item available in the RSS feed gives no further detail about the injured man, the court’s reasoning or any sentence. With only that, there is no basis to pad the story with background the source does not supply.

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