Adriano Sofri (born August 1, 1942), Italian politician, intellectual, journalist, writer and convicted felon. August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... This article is about the year. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, or speculate on a variety of different ideas. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A felony, in many common law legal systems, is the term for a very serious crime; misdemeanors are considered to be less serious. ...

He was a central figure of Italian politics in the sixties as the leader of the extreme-left extraparlamentarian movement Lotta Continua (continuous struggle), he was later accused of being involved, together with Ovidio Bompressi and Giorgio Pietrostefani, in the plotting of the murder of Luigi Calabresi, a police officer killed the 17 May 1972. Woodstock: the iconic Sixties event The Sixties in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969 (see: 1960s), but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past 20 years. ... For the band, see The Police. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

Lotta Continua was a prime suspect, since Calabresi had been the objective of an extensive hate campaign because of his alleged involvement in another murder, the one of anarchist Pino Pinelli. Pinelli fell from the window of the police building in Milan during an interrogation, according to the police because he wanted to commit suicide, but because of the many inconsistencies of the police's version, many believed him to have been murdered. Anarchy (New Latin anarchia, from Greek ανα–, no + αρχη, rule) is a term that has several usages. ... Location within Italy Piazza della Scala Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed Italian region. ... The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ...

In the long series of trials, that spanned about two decades and that alternated acquittals with sentences of guilt, the evidence against Sofri was only the confession of Leonardo Marino, who is seen as unreliable by some. Sofri was sentenced to serve 22 years in the prison of Pisa. The particulars of the Sofri case are detailed in Carlo Ginzburg's book, The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice. In criminal proceedings, a confession is a document in which a suspect admits having committed a crime. ... In law, a sentence forms the final act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function. ... Pisas coat of arms This article is about Pisa in Italy. ...