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There is really something wrong with people who judge Amanda's actions like the kiss in the courtyard and the cartwheel (or was it the splits?) as something nefarious. The whole experience must have been surreal. At 20 years old, healthy humans are filled with energy. To interpret that energy as guilt, particularly when you weren't there is dishonest. We don't know Amanda and what she is like.
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Yes. And what's even more astonishing (and damning) is that the two most senior law enforcement officials involved in this "investigation" also seem to have attached evidentary weight to these sorts of things. For Giobbi to crow on camera that he "knew" Knox was guilty when she swivelled her hips a little, and for Mignini similarly to make ludicrous overinterpretations of other aspects of Knox's behaviour on 2-4 November, should make most Perugians very concerned, and should make the Italian state police and prosecutors' office feel very ashamed. |
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I feel as though I have landed in the middle of a group of eleven-year old Justin Bieber groupies.
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Yeah - this makes almost no sense at all. Nothing new there, of course. Perhaps you meant to say you feel as though you've landed in the middle of a group of rational, objective critical thinkers who are/were capable of seeing this whole case for what it truly is/was, and who have shot to pieces every single one of your evidence-free, vengeful-bias-heavy attempts at argument and laughably inept attempts at "explaining" everything from law to science (and everything else for that matter). Now THAT makes a lot more sense........ |
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You wouldn't feel that way if you ever read the full text of the exonerating documents from the definitive Supreme Court acquittal of 2015, as well as the final documents generated by the ECHR, describing how Italy had denied rights to a suspect at interrogation.
Unless..... you did read those and thought of Justin Bieber anyway! |
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M-B made it clear the pair are highly suspicious and Knox was definitely at the murder scene as of the time of the murder, she named Patrick to deflect away from her knowing it was Guede.
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Unfortunately, cops are horrible about that sort of thing. They have a tendency to distrust and be suspicious of anyone that doesn't fit their own idea of an innocent person. I have a lot of friends that are police officers. They start off wide eyed even, even idealistic maybe, but not long into the job, they tend to evolve into arrogance.
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You don't get it Vixen. Not everyone is alike. And thinking you know what is going on in someone else's mind is an absurd game to play when lives are on the line. You may be very good at reading people. I like to think I am. But I know I can't be sure. A murder case is a horrible place for mind reading.
Do you really want to imprison people base on this amount of evidence? Seriously? Would you really like to see Amanda in prison for 30 plus years if she didn't do it? |
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Estimating TOD by taking the liver temperature is nothing new.
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Why would I do that? That's like expecting Trump to say that MBS was behind Khashoggi's murder or that Putin interfered in the 2016 election or that his inauguration crowd was smaller than Obama's....
But what I will pester you to say is that Krissy G was wrong when she claimed Guede described the "attacker's" knife as a stiletto. Not that I really expect you to admit it because, being an atheist, I don't believe in miracles. |
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The terms "suspect" or "person charged with a criminal offense" in the Knox - Sollecito case are only meaningful based on the definition under international law - that is, the ECHR definition. National formalistic usages of these terms are not consider the only reliable indicator that a person was a suspect or was charged with a criminal offense for the purposes of the European Convention on Human Rights, which for Italy and other CoE member states, is the ultimate human rights law.
Here are the ECHR's statement about those terms, excerpted from its Guidance on Article 6 - Right to a Fair Trial (criminal limb), leaving out the inline case citations: "9. The conceptof a “criminal charge” has an “autonomous” meaning, independent of the categorisations employed by the national legal systems of the member States .... This is true both for the determination of the“criminal” nature of the charge and for the moment from which such a “charge” exists. 10. In using the terms “criminal charge” and “charged with a criminal offence”, the three paragraphs of Article 6 refer to identical situations. Therefore, the test of applicability of Article 6 under its criminal head will be the same for the three paragraphs. 11. The concept of “charge” has to be understood within the meaning of the Convention. The Court takes a “substantive”, rather than a “formal”, conception of the “charge” contemplated by Article 6 .... Charge may thus be defined as “the official notification given to an individual by the competent authority of an allegation that he has committed a criminal offence”, a definition that also corresponds to the test whether “the situation of the [suspect] has been substantially affected” .... 12. The Court held that a person arrested on suspicion of having committed a criminal offence ..., a suspect questioned about his involvement in acts constituting a criminal offence ... and a person who has been questioned in respect of his orher suspected involvement in an offence ..., irrespective of the fact that he or she was formaly treated as a witness ... as well as a person who has been formally charged with a criminal offence under procedure set out in domestic law ... could all be regarded as being “charged with a criminal offence” and claim the protection of Article 6 of the Convention. On the other hand, a person questioned in the context of a border control, in the absence of a need to determine the existence of a reasonable suspicion that she had committed an offence, was not considered to be under a criminal charge .... 14. .... For the Court, the taking of forensic samples on the crime scene and from the applicant and inviting the applicant to open an envelope in his office suggested that the authorities had treated the applicant as a suspect. In these circumstances, the information communicated to the applicant during the ensuing questioning had implicitly and substantially affected his situation, triggering the applicability of Article 6. ____ The police took Amanda Knox's phone and examined a message on it during the first interrogation of Nov. 5/6, 2007. Afterwards, they increasing treated her as a suspect and coerced the 1:45 am statement from her. The ECHR missed this (or it was not clearly pointed out to them); see point 14 above. Instead, the ECHR "raised the question" whether Knox was a suspect during the first interrogation based on several indications, including that her questioning began while she was still in a corridor and the fact that she had been subjected to many hours of questioning prior to the first interrogation of Nov. 5/6. Conservatively, the ECHR then pointed out it was without any dispute that Knox was a suspect in the second interrogation of Nov. 5/6, which resulted in the 5:45 am coerced statement. This latter statement made without a lawyer, and the earlier statement made by Knox without a fair interpreter, were the basis for the two violations of Convention Article 6.1, with Article 6.3c and 6.3e, respectively. |
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Another view of these statements by Giobbi and Mignini is that these are there cover stories. Did you expect them to admit that they decided to accuse two innocents of the rape and murder of Meredith Kercher just because the those two were "soft targets" and "convenient suspects"?
When the Italian cruise ship captain claimed he had inadvertently slid down the side of his ship into a lifeboat, and proceeded to leave the scene of the capsizing of the ship, did you accept that as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Could it have been a cover story since it's rather embarrassing for a captain to flee his ship before the supervision of the rescue of the passengers and crew is complete? |
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Does anyone seriously think Ficarra or any of her fellow cops would have admitted to smacking Knox, denying her the bathroom, or a lawyer, or threatening her? They'd have lost their jobs or worse. But the PGP would have us believe they wouldn't lie, but Knox would.
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This is eerily similar to you claiming there were no bars on the window and then posting a picture of the window with bars on it. Are you attempting a misdirection by repeating exactly what I said?
I'll ask again - exactly HOW would measuring body temperature by making a small incision and inserting a thermometer into her liver put collecting DNA evidence at risk? |
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I may have mentioned this in a previous post.
Initially, I had accepted that Giobbi meant what he said about the reasons he suspected Amanda and Raffaele. A long time after I first read of Giobbi's comments, I used Google Translate to get an English translation of his testimony before the Massei court. Not only does Giobbi mention perceiving Amanda's (alleged) hip wiggle as a clue suggesting her culpability in Meredith's murder/rape; he also, in response to a cross-examination question, states that the bloodstains found in the downstairs flat was left by a cat with a bloody ear. He does not claim to have seen the cat. But what alerted me to considering all his statements about how he came to his suspicions about Amanda and Raffaele as bogus was his response to a question about how there came to be a bloodstain by the light switch - much too high on a wall for a cat to brush against. He said that the cat jumped. Now, I am not an expert in cat behavior, but I have shared apartments with cats and I am confident that an injured, bleeding cat would not jump about 4 feet in the air in order to bump its bleeding ear against a wall. A cat with a bleeding ear would probably seek shelter and no cat jumps to a place it can't land. So I then saw Giobbi's absurd statements, including the ones were he inferred that the break-in had been staged, as cover for decisions he and Mignini made to snare the "softest targets", the "most convenient suspects", in order to close the case as quickly as possible. Viewed that way, the events of the interrogations of Knox and Sollecito become the acts of rational, if unethical or dishonest, police, rather than a whole gaggle of fools. And I suggest this behavior, and the absurd cover stories, may be typical of those Italian authorities who engage in unethical or dishonest practices. Perhaps that is because the Italian government and Superior Council of the Judiciary can forgive fools but must (appear to) discipline dishonesty. |
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[quote=TruthCalls;12743512]This is eerily similar to you claiming there were no bars on the window and then posting a picture of the window with bars on it. Are you attempting a misdirection by repeating exactly what I said?
I'll ask again - exactly HOW would measuring body temperature by making a small incision and inserting a thermometer into her liver put collecting DNA evidence at risk?[/QUOTE] If Vixen follows her usual, she will simply ignore this as she does anything she cannot/ does not want to answer. See my multiple requests to address the Krissy G "stiletto" question. |
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I don't know of any 'book' that instructs the police to:
1. Use dirty gloves to collect samples 2. Pass evidence around before bagging 3. Put evidence in a random box previously used to store other items 4. Collect an identified piece of evidence 46 days later 5. Not change shoe covers between rooms 6. Declare "case closed" before any forensic evidence has been returned 7. Declare a burglary staged based on assumptions rather than evidence 8. Leak false information to the media 9. Not provide a suspect with a lawyer as required by law 10. Not provide a suspect with a neutral interpreter as required by law |
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On cover-ups, especially absurd coverups:
Many may remember the Watergate incident that occurred during US President Nixon's administration. A group broke into the offices, located in the Watergate building in Washington, DC, of the Democratic Party. There were allegations of connections between that group and the Nixon administration, including the president. It turned out that President Nixon had a voice-activated recorder that recorded conversations, which Congress obtained through court order, between him and his staff which suggested that at a minimum he was involved in a cover-up of the break-in. One of the incidents relating to this recording was that there was an 18.5 minute gap of the recording of a possibly critical conversation between Nixon and a staff official. The question arose as to what had caused the gap. Here is an excerpt from a news article about an absurd explanation of the cause of the gap that was offered by Nixon's secretary: ".... On November 17, 1973, the White House informed Federal District Judge John Sirica that the 18 1/2 minute Nixon-Haldeman conversation of June 20, 1972, had been erased. White House Counsel Fred Buzhardt told the Court that he no explanation for the erasure. Nixon’s Secretary Rose Mary Woods took the blame for the first five minutes of the erasure. She said that she had been transcribing the tape, and when she reached to take a phone call, her foot hit a pedal on the recording machine, inadvertently causing the tape player to “record” over the original tape’s contents. Reporters were called to the White House to watch her perform a re-enactment, and the photos of her performing a tremendous stretch, which she supposedly held for five minutes, were rejected as implausible. Moreover, the particular tape recording machine does not operate the way she had claimed; simply pressing the foot pedal to “record” would not initiate a recording unless the play button was being manually depressed at the very same time. Chief of Staff Alexander Haig blamed the 18 1/2 minute gap on a “sinister force.” In January 1974, experts who examined the tape reported that were four or five separate erasures." Here is the relevance to the Knox - Sollecito case: 1. It should not be assumed that officials, including police officers, prosecutors, or judges, are telling the truth regarding their actions which on inspection are unethical or unlawful. 2. When explanations of actions by those officials are absurd or contrary to empirical reality, one should be especially skeptical. 3. Therefore, one should be skeptical of the absurd rationales offered by VQA Giobbi and PM Mignini for their actions, in particular their claims that Amanda's or Raffaele's behavior triggered their suspicions. 4. One should also be skeptical of the police rationales, not developed through empirical evidence, that the break-in was staged or that Meredith Kercher was attacked by more than one person. Source for the news quote about Watergate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.164bab21cfb2 |
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Meanwhile...over on TJMK with LooneyTunes Slick Pete:
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The gaslighting goes like this:
1) No Italian thinks anyone but Knox wielded the knife#2 is proof that #1 is false, even if half of Italy are Masons,liars, and sell outs. Perhaps the most concise analysis of the Marasca-Bruno report comes from a living and breathing Italian. https://www.groundreport.com/knox-an...o-final-words/ But prepare for this Italian to be attacked mercilessly, despite the fact that no Italian believes as this Italian does. Even he doesn't believe what he wrote, because he's Italian, and no Italian believes as this Italian does. It's so confusing! |
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Actually the ECHR judgment Knox v. Italy was published 24 January 2019, and became final 24 June 2019. It would have become final on 24 April 2019, but Italy requested a referral to the Grand Chamber, which was rejected by the Grand Chamber Panel. Here's the text of the title page of the judgment:
AFFAIRE KNOX c. ITALIE (Requête no 76577/13) ARRÊT STRASBOURG 24 janvier 2019 DÉFINITIF 24/06/2019 |
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