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I believe this is a big part of the truth. But what it leaves out is that the "rush" to solve the crime quickly, in this Knox-Sollecito-Lumumba case involved violating Italian procedural and criminal laws by the police and prosecutor.
As proof of the violation of Italian criminal laws, Mignini and another prosecutor charged Amanda with calunnia against the police and Mignini for her statements in court, and in her appeal documents, for reciting her account of what had occurred during the interrogation. The Boninsegna court motivation report lists the specific crimes that the authorities believe Amanda was implicitly charging against the police and Mignini.
Likewise, in the Julie Rae Harper case there was documented criminal misconduct. Here's one example;
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UIS discovers evidence of police perjury: The media coverage from the Prisoner Review Board hearing prompted the former mayor of Lawrenceville and the former chief of police to contact the Downstate Innocence Project with evidence suggesting that a Lawrence County Sheriff deputy testified falsely at Julie’s first trial, providing false evidence which contributed to her conviction. The Deputy, who was first on the scene, made no report about searching the back yard for footprints on an intruder. However, at trial, Deputy Dennis York testified that before entering the house he shined his flash light down on the wet dew-covered grass and could find no evidence of a perpetrator’s footprints in the back yard where Julie described the intruder striking her to the ground and calmly walking away. York testified, “I shined the yard with my light. It was heavy dew. I seen no fresh track in the yard.” However, this testimony is contradicted by a neighbor who walked the same area in his barefeet and said the grass was dry. After Julie was convicted, her new husband Mark Harper contacted a meteorologist who reviewed weather records for that morning. This expert concluded there would have been no dew on the ground that morning. Key evidence was discovered by UIS that was never provided to Julie’s defense attorney by prosecutors. This withheld evidence was an audio-taped interview of Deputy York that was conducted on the morning of the crime by the Lawrenceville police chief David White. The audio interview contradicted York’s trial testimony by stating he went immediately inside the house and never mentioned searching the back yard for footprints in the dew. This audio tape was never provided to the defense during Julie’s first trial. Yet, his testimony was used by prosecutors as evidence that there was no intruder.
ETA (updated) Again, the case closely parallels the Kercher case... what happened to Amanda happened to Julie. Prosecutor Parkinson parallels Mignini. In both cases the police immediately concluded there was a staged break-in and this resulted in them immediately looking at someone living inside the home.