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Chinnici graduated in with a law diploma and started working as a magistrate in 1952 in Trapani . He then became Chief Prosecutor at the Palace of Justice in Palermo following the murder of his predecessor, Cesare Terranova , by the Mafia. The famous anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino both worked under him.

On July 29 , 1983 a Car Bomb explosion killed Chinnici, two of his Bodyguard s and the concierge of his Apartment block. The bomb was triggered by the notorious Mafia Assassin Pino Greco and Pino acted under orders from his uncle Michele Greco ; Michele was subsequently sentenced to Life Imprisonment for ordering Chinnici's assassination.

Chinnici was replaced as Chief Prosecutor by Antonino Caponnetto .