Judge say Premier Silvio Berlusconi's trial on corruption charges will continue, despite a ruling by Italy's highest appellate court that overturned the conviction of the British lawyer the Italian leader allegedly bribed, according to AP. Three judges on Saturday rebuffed a bid by Berlusconi's defense lawyers to suspend his trial until the high court makes public its reasons in concluding the statute of limitations had run out in the case of David Mills. The British lawyer had been found guilty by an Italian court of accepting a ¤600,000 bribe to lie in court to protect Berlusconi's business interests and sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison. Berlusconi's trial in the same case restarted in December after being frozen by a now-defunct immunity law. The premier denies wrongdoing. -- SPA
