Horace Mastronardi

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Horace (Horaz) Mastronardi (1912 or 1913; † March 1995 ) was a Swiss lawyer who was known for his involvement in appeal proceedings .

Life

Mastronardi received his doctorate in 1933 at the University of Bern with the dissertation The position of the expert in criminal procedure law . His interest in revision procedures and miscarriages of justice was the case Riedel-Guala aroused. Mastronardi participated in about fifty revision proceedings and was considered a specialist in just such proceedings. His clients included Friedrich Dürrenmatt , the Theodore von Kármán family , Timothy Leary , Hans Brändlin and Pierre Jaccoud . Together with the Bern lawyer Roland Steiner, he succeeded in ensuring that the Jaccoud case went down in legal history as a possible miscarriage of justice.

“The legendary Bernese defense attorney Horace Mastronardi (who died in 1996) told me that, at Jaccoud's request, he later took on the case and fought for the rehabilitation of his Geneva colleague for 18 years. Ultimately, Mastronardi won the federal court , which conceded the case and sent it back to Geneva for a new assessment. But then Jaccoud no longer had the strength to continue. He told him that he had lost faith in the Geneva judiciary and could no longer. "

- Hanspeter Born : The magazine

Mastronardi was considered a "speech and gesture enormous" and luminary . Even in old age, Mastronardi took care of the man convicted of the murder in Kehrsatz ; He was honorary president of the "Fairness in Case Z." Association, which successfully campaigned for the case to be reopened. In 1991, Mastronardi “stood up for Kurdish asylum seekers in hiding in the canton of Obwalden and demanded that the asylum decision rejected ”. He was also a promoter of the " Parents Council employees " mentioned cooperation between parents and teachers / teachers in the Canton of Bern (which via Elementary School Law obligation was). He died in March 1995 at the age of 82.

Short obituaries

  • SDA : Lawyer Horace Mastronardi has died . In: Basler Zeitung . March 16, 1995.
  • SDA: Died / Lawyer Mastronardi . In: The Bund . March 16, 1995.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ SDA: Died / Lawyer Mastronardi . In: The Bund . March 16, 1995.
  2. ↑ a b c d SDA : Lawyer Horace Mastronardi has died . In: Basler Zeitung . March 16, 1995.
  3. ↑ Hans Habe : Oak leaves against Goethe medal . In: Die Zeit , No. 14/1972.
  4. ↑ Kärin Nickelsen , Alessandra Hool , Gerd Grasshoff . VIII. A foundation for Bern. In: Theodore von Kármán: Airplanes for the world and a foundation for Bern. Birkhäuser , Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7135-7 , pp. 221-236.
  5. ↑ Drug cultist issues appeal . In: The Bulletin . October 31, 1972.
  6. ^ Leary free on bail; awaits US action . Eugene Register-Guard , August 8, 1971.
  7. ↑ Case concerning the competition horse Carré d'As : Schweizer Illustrierte of November 22, 1976, p. 30 (see also Der Spiegel of May 25, 1981 )
  8. ↑ Gerhard Mauz : A murder, a button and Calvin's ghost . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1965, p. 119 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Jürgen Thorwald : The hour of the detectives: Becoming and worlds of criminalistics . Volume 1: Bloody Secret . Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1966.
  10. ↑ Hanspeter Born : Murderer wanted . In: The magazine . September 29, 2001.
  11. ↑ Hanspeter Born : VII. The evidence: A clear case . In: Die Weltwoche . December 15, 1988.
  12. ↑ 25 years ago today . In: Basler Zeitung . April 20, 2016 (with illustration).
  13. ↑ Marcel Aeschbacher: Parents' cooperation: school and parental home . In: The Bund . June 13, 1997.
personal data
SURNAME Mastronardi, Horace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mastronardi, Horace (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1912 or 1913
DATE OF DEATH March 1995