The notorious case of U.S. Actor William Berger, 42, which has created a furor over Italy's undiscriminating narcotics laws and the country's faulty legal machinery (TIME, April 5), finally came to an end last week in a Salerno courtroom. Eight months ago, in a search for drugs along the Amalfi coast, Italian police entered Berger's rented villa while he was entertaining dinner guests and found marijuana (nine-tenths of one gram) in a snuff box, less than enough for one joint. That was more than enough for them to arrest Berger, his wife Carol, 39, and seven guests.
What followed, however, was altogether...