Posted on 10/05/2011 12:54:41 PM PDT by mojito
Several years ago, when Britney Spears’ meltdown was at its peak and couldn’t be avoided in the news, I did the shortest post in the history of the blogosphere. I titled it “My Thoughts On Britney Spears,” and the body of the post was blank.
Surprisingly, perhaps, I do have some thoughts on today’s verdict in Perugia acquitting Amanda Knox and her “boyfriend” of less than a week, Raffaele Sollecito. The story was simply irresistible, especially to a lawyer. I started reading up on it and, as it happens, I do have a strong opinion on the case. So here goes.
I think the conviction of Knox and Sollecito was an outrageous miscarriage of justice, driven by preoccupations on the part of the prosecutor, and maybe some policemen, that can only be described as medieval. There was no meaningful evidence against them. None. And–this is a fact that is often lost sight of–we actually know who killed Meredith Kercher. It was Rudy Guede.
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All I know is that she’s hot.
That makes her guilty.
An innocent person would NEVER be accused of such things.
</sarcasm>
Thanks for posting.
Excellent summation by Hinderaker. The one thing missing, which I recall reading elsewhere, is that Knox implicated a hapless bartender, claiming that she held her ears closed against the victim’s screams while the bartender murdered her. It turned out the bartender had an iron-clad alibi, and Knox has since stated that police and the prosecutor pressured her into making the false claim.
And that was the focus of almost all of the coverage.
Sadly, the murder victim was also “hot.”
When will she kill again?
Her family’s silence may be due to the fact that she has murdered them all.
Something to think about.
What makes more sense?
A rape/murder committed by a third-world degenerate drifter, or a conspiracy to commit rape and murder by a couple of college kids and a third-world degenerate drifter?
Usually an innocent person can be bullied into making incriminating statements after that long and brutal of an interrogation - that is why the Police engage in them with suspects who they don't have good evidence against - they can at least get them for untrue/contradictory statements.
Statistically a woman not engaged in gang related activity stabbing another woman with a knife is about as rare as an Amish computer hacker.
The third-world degenerate drifter breaking in and engaging in rape and murder is easy to understand - but apparently the prosecutor had a history of imagining satanic ritual murder orgies - so to him that seemed more likely.
Seriously....I would have 2nd thoughts about a trip to Italy if this is the kind of ‘justice’ they favor
Tabloids and other trash media as well as trash media consumers fueled it.
In a perfect world, all those scums would be responsible to pay Amanda 4 years of vacation of her choice plus compensation for her lost time and suffering.
Agreed.
I've never been to Italy so I can not speak from experience, but I have friends who have gone and who've come back with stories of rather ugly anti-Americanism.
“Hard, incontrovertible DNA evidence is one of the best things that ever happened to justice systems.”
I agree completely. Hard to argue “it wasn’t me” when your DNA (in the form of sperm) is on the rape/murder victim. It erases a lot of reasonable doubt about mistaken identity and such.
But it can be (and was) abused. An inconclusive result can be said to be definitive. One problem with PCR of DNA is that it can amplify such a small amount that you can claim “the victim’s DNA is on the knife” even if it was an amount consistent with them touching the knife - but not at all consistent with the knife being plunged into their body and soaked in their blood.
I am shocked the nation which gave us Benito Mussolini and Silvio Berlusconi would interrogate an innocent woman for fifty-six (56) hours then imprison her for years.
That would be "Nothing to see here, move along."
or a conspiracy to commit rape and murder by a couple of college kids and a third-world degenerate drifter?
That's the type of thing that sells newspapers and gets zealous prosectors promotions. So, of course, the courts picked "B".
Remember that in Italy you are guilty until proven innocent. Plus being an American probably didn’t help at all.
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