FILE PHOTO: A general view of the 60 Sloane Avenue in London, Britain, April 13, 2021. REUTERS/John Sibley/File Photo
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The defence at a Vatican corruption trial failed definitively on Tuesday to have charges against their clients dropped and the judge ordered it to begin in earnest with the questioning of a cardinal.
Court President Giuseppe Pignatone issued a slew of rejections of defence motions and objections that had built up during the previous eight hearings of the trial, which began in July.
