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16th November 2020, 09:06 AM | #161 |
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I don't recall Guede ever apologizing or expressing remorse for murdering Meredith. What he has done is blame others for his hideous act of violence as he minimizes his role to nothing more than someone who didn't do all they could to help the victim. I find it unsurprising that a Guede apologist would see things this way yet I do still find it rather disgusting.
Amanda never harassed the Kerchers. She expressed a desire to meet with them, to speak to them about their daughter, to visit Meredith's grave and be able to grieve for her. There is nothing improper with any of this, and as she respected the wishes of the family and stayed away, I'd be interested to know exactly when and how Amanda "harassed" them. |
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16th November 2020, 10:24 AM | #163 |
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None of this is a mystery when one comes to the conclusion about the main agenda of guilter-world.
The intent of both PMF websites (.net and .org, now defunct) as well as TJMK, as well as the campaign here on JREF/ISF has never been to lift up the memory of a young woman whose life was horribly shortened by Rudy Guede.... It has been to vilify one Seattleite, and use lies and exaggerations to make the case that that one Seattleite deserves scorn. The strange thing is that the case they try to make is that that Seattleite is deserving of the scorn no matter what you believe about the facts of the 2007 murder. Amanda Knox goes to her first Hallowe'en back in Seattle dressed as a soccer player, and she gets shamed for "harassing the Kerchers". Why? The tabloids confuse the soccer player costume with a cat burglar!!!! And on and on and on and on and on..... unto the 31st Continuation of this thread - the majority of the Continuations being made after the March 2015 acquittals! The need to shame eclipses even exonerations! |
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16th November 2020, 10:26 AM | #164 |
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In a thread titled "Who Killed Meredith Kercher?", the answer is obvious. Rudy Guede and no one else. |
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16th November 2020, 11:43 AM | #165 |
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You refuse to admit Guede killed Meredith. Further, he has never accepted responsibility for killing Meredith, he has never apologized for it nor has he ever expressed remorse for doing so yet you keep claiming he has. THAT makes you a Guede apologist.
I asked you when and how Amanda harassed Meredith's parents. She expressed her feelings while honoring the request of the family. That is NOT playing cat and mouse. I realize you tend to twist everything to suit your anti-Amanda rhetoric but surely you can do better than this. |
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I received this reply to my last email to Mitcham Rd. Cemetery:
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"I’m sorry but she does not remember the name of the person she spoke to as it was on Sept. 14. I do not know why the coroner’s paperwork would have written it as “Arlene”. All references to her in the media and in her own husband’s book, ‘Meredith’, spelled it “Arline”. I suspect whoever typed the coroner’s certificate made an error. Thank you again for you help." |
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16th November 2020, 12:18 PM | #168 |
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That's because all she knew about Amanda was what she was told or what she read in the media. What else would you expect her to think about someone she thought killed her daughter?
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Vixen, you have a great deal of trouble interpreting what you read without injecting your extreme bias into it. For example, you describe this as Amanda "jeering, complaining, and confronting (the Kerchers)" when it is anything but that. It is, in fact, the exact opposite of how you describe it. This is what fascinates me.
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You claim that Guede "expressed remorse and apologised". Again, a classic Vixen misrepresentation. His expression of remorse and his apology was not for what he had actually done but for his bald faced lie of 'not having saved her'. Your lack of intellectual honesty is shocking. |
16th November 2020, 01:02 PM | #171 |
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Ah, er, no.
"Multiple attackers" became a judicial fact at a fast-track trial, "fast-track" referring to a regular trial with the evidence phase missing. Other courts, therefore, had to bake this judicial fact into their rulings, with no actual cross-examind evidence available in the record. Indeed, the Hellmann court in acquitting the pair, made no comment on it, writing that it was his responsibility to only rule on AK's and/or RS's involvement in the crime. As you know, he acquitted them and left the adjacent "judicial fact" of multiple attackers uncommented upon. Which makes it strange that guilter-nutters continue to reverse engineer the judicial fact to mean that it also means that AK and/or RS must have been included in the "multiple". It's the equivalent to the slut-shaming that goes on, as if the slut-shaming substitutes for actual evidence which is lacking. |
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16th November 2020, 01:23 PM | #172 |
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Are you saying there were "illegitimate" courts? Let me guess: the acquitting courts were bent, bought off by the US government, Masons, mafia, blah, blah, blah....
What "solid evidence" exactly puts multiple attackers in Meredith's bedroom or even in the cottage? I'd love to see it because the prosecution never presented any. I can only assume you have some that they didn't? |
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There is a reason why Vixen cannot present this "solid evidence" of multiple attackers. First - evidence was never presented in court. Never.
That did not stop judges from referring to it, though. (Yes, I meant it to sound like they knowingly wrote about non-existent evidence.) They just surmised it must have been that way.... .... all while numerous experts themselves surmised that there was no real reason why this murder had to have have multiple attackers. Yet here we are, 13 years after the fact and 5 1/2 years after their acquittal still reading about the "evidence for it being solid". Surmise and repeat. Allege and repeat. |
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16th November 2020, 03:49 PM | #176 |
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The simple (and sole) reason why the Guede fast-track-based trial process concluded that there were multiple attackers was this: Both the prosecution and the defence in Guede's trial had argued that there were multiple attackers. And why did this occur? Well in fact, the prosecution and the defence in Guede's trial had each had entirely different reasons for wanting to argue for multiple attackers in Guede's trial. The prosecution had wanted (in fact needed) the court to find for multiple attackers because the prosecution had Knox and Sollecito in custody and awaiting trial for the same crime(s). The defence had wanted (in fact, needed) to convince the court of the multiple-attacker scenario because the entire defence case was based upon Guede just happening to have been in the cottage when these other attackers came in and murdered Kercher. So actually there was no other verdict - in respect of whether Guede had acted alone or had been one of multiple attackers - that the court of first instance ever could have arrived at. Especially given that it was a fast-track trial with very little evidence in depth being presented/argued. And once the first-instance court had reached that verdict, there was easily sufficient proof of Guede's guilt to ensure that the guilty verdict would be affirmed at both the appeal court and the supreme court levels. There therefore was no reason how/why the issue of "multiple attackers" could/would ever have come under any further scrutiny at those appeal levels either. And thus did the "multiple attacker" myth, as it pertained to Guede's verdict (alone), get signed off by the Supreme Court........ |
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Still there.
Adding “Duper’s Delight” To Knox’s Numerous Menacing Symptoms Looks like only the "Front page" is "gone" at the moment... (apparently unnoticed by PQ ) Funny sidenote: despite the front page being not accessible at the moment, the "counter" on TJMK tells us that there are "Now on this page 206 " |
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Stop being in denial and being dismissive of Arline Kercher. This poor woman attended the trial, including the in camera autopsy hearing, together with being briefed by her counsel of ALL of the evidence. How dare you claim her views are worthless whilst you a keyboard observer pin all your glory on a convicted and known liar?
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As you have been told, the criminal law courts have determined it is an indisputable fact that there was more than one attacker. See for example Micheli who said it was elegantly proven and beyond dispute. For some reason, you and Amanda Knox fans live in denial of this fact and as rubber stamped by the final Marasca/Bruno court.
I am sure that you can think of all sorts of 'alternative explanations' but I am afraid the law courts deal with facts not the fantasies of people who prefer to claim 'the black guy did it all by himself'. |
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Read the patholgist's report and consider carefully the 47 injuries found on the victim's body indicating torture and provocation. It is undeniably the actions of someone with a vicious personal grudge against her - note the brutal upward thrust performed by at least three times of the fatal stab - together with the multiple knife flicks - at least 23 - and a deep knife wound on the opposite side of the neck by a demonstrably smaller knife blade, together with lack of defensive wounds (in a fit person who practised kick boxing) and bruises on the wrists indicating her arms were forcibly restrained behind her back, together with a torn ligament in the shoulder indicating the sheer force of this restraint. If it was one random burglar it is extremely unlikely he would use two different knifes, torture the victim to die a long painful death and at the same time forcibly hold her two arms behind her back. I am sure LondonJohn will be along shortly to provide a scenario in which 'Guede could have done all of this by himself' but most people prefer to stick with the opinion of the courts who heard the evidence from all sides and saw the wounds.
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LOL! How dare you claim her views are worthless .......there you go again with your hyperbolic twisted misrepresentations. Honestly, Vix, you're going to pop a blood vessel one of these days.
Sure, her counsel briefed her on all the evidence...from their point of view. Did that include the fact that "Knox's footprints in her daughter's blood" were actually not in her daughter's blood nor proved to be Knox's footprints at all? Or that her daughter's DNA on the 'murder knife' wasn't actually on the knife at all? And therefore there was no evidence it was even the murder weapon at all? Did they prepare her for Curatolo to be laughed out of the Hellmann court after his ridiculous testimony? Or Kokomani's equally ridiculous "olive throwing" testimony? Pssst.....Need I remind you that Knox has been definitively acquitted of the murder and, in all likelihood, will be cleared of the calunnia conviction too once Italy finally gets around to following the findings of the ECHR? |
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The fact is that no evidence was provided proving multiple attackers. No DNA, no fingerprints, no footprints, no shoe prints, not forensic evidence period. If Guede left so much evidence of himself behind in that room then how do you explain away two other people not doing so, too? You can't and you can't escape that fact however much you live in denial of that.
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Most of those 47 injuries were bruises/contusions/scrapes. But so much conjecture in that! Love the "torture" and "vicious personal grudge" bits you pulled straight out of your colon. You pull so much out of there it rivals the London Library as a conservatory of information!
I agree that it's extremely unlikely one random burglar would use two different knives...which is why Guede only used one. As Lalli said, one knife could have made all the wounds on Meredith: the smaller knife which left the bloody outline on the bed, but not the one from Raff's kitchen. Why you think it's impossible for Guede to have overpowered Meredith is odd. Men break into women's homes and do exactly that every damn day all over the world. They rape and often then murder them. EVERY DAMN DAY. Sometimes they do it to more than one woman in that home with nothing more than a knife. But somehow, you don't think Guede could overpower Meredith...what was she...5'3" 115 lbs? Because she kick boxed? I heard he couldn't do it because she knew karate! An ORANGE belt! Wooo hoooo! Wow. A beginner's belt. |
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Not sure you even actually bothered to read the post of mine to which you are replying here. Plus ça change..... (You also appear unable to comprehend the distinction between the judiciary and the executive/legislative branches of government. Even in Italy. Try doing some research on it ) |
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I "have been told" nothing Vixen. Nothing by you, that is - since the credibility and reliability of almost everything you write, including what you write on this topic, is misleading and inaccurate at best, and is a downright lie at most. You should perhaps direct your efforts at learning about what actually happened in the various trials processes in this sorry case. And specifically (with regard to this particular issue) what happened in the Guede short-track trial in Micheli's court - and why what happened happened. That last bit (ie the bit described in the final four words of my previous sentence) does require a bit of objective analytical skill and endeavour, I grant you; but the rest of it should be pretty simple. And once you've familiarised yourself sufficiently with the Guede short-track trial, I recommend that you skip all the way forward to the Marasca SC panel verdicts/reasonings on the Knox/Sollecito murder-related charges. After all, every other piece of verdict-related information related to the Knox/Sollecito murder-related charges is utterly worthless as we stand here in 2020. So I wouldn't want you to waste your time reading up on, say, the Massei court verdicts/MRs or the Nencini appeal court verdicts/MRs. You're welcome |
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It's the British Library, Stacy. And a venerable institution it is too (though it's now housed in a modernistic building right next to St Pancras rail station...). Up until surprisingly recently, it held a copy of every single book in the world that had ever been published in the English language. And it's certainly a fantastic research resource, especially in the areas of obscure or historic literature. However, it'd be perfectly easy to gain the requisite knowledge to understand adequately the Kercher-related trials processes in terms of law, jurisprudence, pathology, forensic science and crime scene investigation...... simply by going to a normal lending library in any medium-sized UK town, or by buying a few cheap books on amazon...... |
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That is the way the legal system works. If a court of law determines something is a fact then it is tough titties if someone disputes it. For example, few people dispute OJ Simpson was responsible for the murder of Nicola and her boyfriend so it was hard luck he got away with it. But that is the legal position. In the Kercher case, despite Sollecito's relatively wealthy father throwing a lot of money to support his son with the most expensive barristers and Knox getting support from Trump and Friends of Amanda Knox, the merits court and the appeals court DID find the pair guilty as charged. The pair had their sentences anulled solely on the basis of a three-day sitting by a Supreme Court for political reasons. The SC has no power to oveturn facts found by a merits court so therefore the fact of the merits/semi-merits appeal court of a staged burglary and multiple attackers stands, the facts support this conclusion 100%. Police are not looking for the other attackers. This tells you everything you need to know about Knox and Sollecito, whose counsel agreed there were multiple attackers as indicated by the evidence and hence they brought in Alessi - a convicted childkidnapper and murderer - and Aviello a hardened Mafia Thug serving SEVENTEEN YEARS to support as their alternative theory of who the other attackers might be other than themselves. |
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It is an excellent source for legal papers, especially EU law, as well as an extensive collection of electoral registers going back since time began. Most local libraries won't have that level of reference materials. The National Archives at Kew is amazing for government and colonial records. The British Newspaper Library which used to be in Colindale was a fantastic research tool. I fail to see why anyone would sneer at them.
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Er, nobody has sneered at the British Library - or the London Library, or any other library.
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Your inability to actually read my posts (for comprehension) before attempting a reply..... is getting ironically impressive. Firstly, remind us all who is/was "sneer(ing)" at libraries (of any sort)? Secondly - and if you'd actually read my post you'd have clearly understood - what I was saying was that it didn..... oh on second thoughts, why the hell am I bothering even responding? |
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