Mr Previti might have had a more severe sentence but for a loophole in the law.
Fininvest's lawyer, Cesare Previti, was convicted two years ago of buying this judgment.
Cesare Previti, a Forza Italia senator and business colleague of Mr Berlusconi, might also benefit from the new bill.
Mr. JOHN PREVITI (Bass Player): You know, when he played country music, it sounded like all he played was country music.
Last month, the prosecutor asked that, if found guilty, Mr Previti be sentenced to 13 years in jail in each trial.
But it certainly looks as though it has been tailor-made to suit the needs of the prime minister and Mr Previti.
Messrs Berlusconi and Previti are waiting for the final appeals court to decide whether the trials can be transferred to another jurisdiction.
Mr Previti and other defendants were cleared of another charge, also levelled at Mr Berlusconi, of conspiring to buy a court ruling in 1986.
Second, in March, the prime minister and Mr Previti asked the final appeals court to move all three judges-bribing trials to Brescia, east of Milan.
Bassist, John Previti, says that in their two decades playing together, they never discussed anything like suicide, although a close friend did relay this story of Gatton.
Under the new bill, Mr Previti might be able to submit direct evidence to the supreme court, whose role is currently limited to ruling on points of law.
Mr Berlusconi, for his part, says that left-wing magistrates dominate the judiciary in Milan, and that their corruption investigations into him, Mr Previti and other friends have been politically motivated.
The alleged intermediaries include Cesare Previti, a former lawyer to Mr Berlusconi's companies who is another long-standing and close friend and who is also on trial in two further cases of bribery of judges, which he too denies.
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