Giuliano Mignini

Public Minister Giuliano Mignini
Born	1950
Education	Law degree
Alma mater	University of Perugia
Occupation	Public prosecutor
Years active	Magistrate since 1979
Known for	Monster of Florence Murder of Meredith Kercher
Children	Four daughters

Giuliano Mignini (born 1950) is an Italian Magistrate, he currently works as public prosecutor in Perugia, Umbria.

He is known for his involvement as the prosecutor in the investigation of the death of Dr. Francesco Narducci, who was found dead in the Trasimeno lake in 1985. Mignini opened an investigation into his death as a cold case in October 2001, based on evidence that had emerged during another investigation on a phone stalking case and following a request by Narducci's widow. One month later, the Public Prosecution of Florence revealed that they were also investigating on Narducci's death, as they believed he was involved the Monster of Florence serial murders case. Florence requested to merge their investigation with the one carried on by the Perugia office. The investigation resulted in the prosecution of a number of individuals over the following years, on allegations indirectly connected to Narducci's death such as cover-up and side-tracking charges. Most charges were later dropped due to the expiration of limitation statute terms. Courts determined that Narducci had died by strangling and not by drawning as previously declared, while the alleged side-trackings subsequent to his death did take place, including the staging of the corpse finding at the lake by using the body of an unknown.

Mignini came to wider public attention as the prosecutor who led the 2007 investigation into the murder of Meredith Kercher, and the subsequent prosecution of Rudy Guede, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. The conviction of Knox and Sollecito was eventually annulled by the Supreme Court of Cassation On March 27, 2015. It ruled that the case was without foundation, thereby definitively acquitting them of the murder. Rather than merely declaring that there were errors in the earlier court cases or that there was not enough evidence to convict, the court ruled that Knox and Sollecito were innocent of involvement in the murder. On September 7, 2015, the Court published the report on the acquittal, citing "glaring errors," "investigative amnesia," and "guilty omissions," where a five-judge panel said that the prosecutors who won the original murder conviction failed to prove a "whole truth" to back up the scenario that Knox and Sollecito killed Kercher. They also stated that there were "sensational failures" (clamorose defaillance) in the investigation, and that the lower court had been guilty of "culpable omissions" (colpevoli omissioni) in ignoring expert testimony that demonstrated contamination of evidence.

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