Kaosium said:
I wish I could say that the knife was the most absurd evidence that the prosecution presented in this case. It's up there, but there is so much to choose from. It's a joke. And even more so when it applies to the charge against Amanda of transporting a weapon.
How does ANYONE beyond a reasonable doubt conclude that Amanda transported this knife from Raffaele'so apartment to and from the cottage? Is there testimony from anyone that Amanda transported this knife or any knife? Even if it was determined to be the murder weapon, (Which it wasn't) how does anyone determined who transported it?
Massei just postulated that Amanda felt she needed protection in her neighborhood and kept a kitchen knife (!?!) in her bag for several days. Thus the kitchen knife being in her bag was unrelated to any murderous impulses. He went from that being 'possible' to it becoming 'probable' without any evidence or argument supporting it.
(FYI: There is really no evidence that supports that this was the murder weapon. It had no blood on it, the knife didn't match the wounds on Meredith or the blood stain on her sheet.
Not only that, it's also
damned curious that was the knife the
polizia di stato plucked randomly from Raffaele's drawer when they took him back to his place to get his computers. Raffaele claims one of them said 'this will do' which gains greater credence when it's realized that by 'collecting' that one knife and no others at that time they
acted like that one knife 'would do' for their purposes.
What on earth were they doing taking that one knife and no other at that time? Why not wait and let the
Polizia Scientifica collect it properly with everything else in a few days time?
A few days later Stefanoni will claim to have found Meredith's DNA on that knife, which she would later have to lie about and hid the particulars of, especially when it was revealed the knife tested negative for blood and even the prosecution's own forensic expert would say of the only two wounds capable of identifying or excluding a certain knife that one of them
could not have been made by the kitchen knife and the other he understood why other experts would exclude it but he thought it barely possible if it was at the right angle.
Both wounds were the same depth (The knife went in the same length --within a millimeter) and both left hilt bruises meaning it was the same knife that made both wounds, or two with identical parameters.
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Hi Kao, Ac.
Re the hilighted part about choosing only one knife to test ...
I suspect it is standard procedure documented in the Perugian serious crimes investigation handbook:
Step 1: If a murder is suspected, collect one knife from somewhere,
Step 2: A few days later, test it for the murder victim's blood and/or DNA.
Step 3: If the test shows the knife was not the murder weapon, repeat steps 1 and 2.
(Note: if time does not permit repeating steps 1 & 2, then fudge some obscure forensic result, being sure to NOT release the EDFs, EVER!)
The same handbook no doubt has:
- When interrogating suspects, hide all recordings. Do not release, EVER. Never directly answer the question "were recordings made?".
And
- All running shoes with tread rings are identical, regardless of the number of rings.
And
- If a break in is suspected, it is not a break-in.
And
-If a staged break-in is suspected, do not investigate or document.
And
- If a sexual assault is suspected, don't test probable semen stains.
And
- If a sexual assault is suspected, consider the possibility it was actually an argument over poo.
And
- Drug addled tramps and hobos, make the best witnesses.
And
- The more suspects you have, the more suspicious sounding things you can claim. Double your suspects, double you claims. Triple your suspects .. you get the idea.
And
- Always be aware of the possibility of double body swaps, it is more common than you think.
And
- If in doubt, ask a psychic.
Cody
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