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Old 30th July 2017, 03:19 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
If this is true of defense experts, it must also be true of prosecution experts. Rinaldi and Boemia were paid experts. Were they also shills paid to give evidence to support the prosecution? How about Norelli, the only expert who said there had to be multiple killers? Or Torricelli? All paid prosecution experts.

Who weren't paid experts for either the defense or prosecution? Conti and Vecchiotti. They were independent.

When you have to resort to accusing or implying that any expert who doesn't support your confirmation bias is somehow bought off or a shill, it only undermines your position. To suggest a person's private physician would lie under oath about his patient's infertility is just sheer desperation.

Just sayin'.
Also if you look at the forensic pathologists the only one who said that there had to be more than one assailant was the pathologist acting for the party with a financial interest in the conviction of Knox and Sollecito. Neither the defence nor the prosecution experts said that the assault could not have been the result of a single assailant. This seems to be an example of a paid shill.

ECHR case law requires that where there is doubt the court must follow an assumption of innocence. If Marasca understood the significance of ECHR case law he had no option than to state 'the physical findings from the post mortem were compatible with a single assailant (but could not exclude more than one)'. The evidence from the post mortem cannot be used to support the case against Sollecito or Knox.

So proper application of the law by Marasca would have excluded the DNA findings from the bathroom and the post mortem findings as evidence of guilt. 'All the evidence' seems to be rapidly disappearing into court rulings that are contrary to ECHR case law and thus invalid.
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