Continuation Part 17: Amanda Knox/Raffaele Sollecito

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Grinder,
I fail to see what statements from those who are repeating things they must have been told, but not correctly repeating the precise details, has to do with Amanda's or Raffaele's cases, which can be found in their respective appeals documents.

Some are confusing interview hours and police contact hours, for instance. The times are listed in the Italian, "ore" {Italian} = "hours" {English}.

Do you know who Madison is?

"Amanda is confused, terrorized," he told the jury. "She can hardly speak Italian."

By his count, she sat through more than 53 hours of police questioning over the course of five days before she was eventually arrested after breaking down and blaming an innocent man,


Do you think Dalla Vedova was confused as well?

You do know who he is, right?

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Amanda-Knox-a-victim-targeted-for-being-881849.php

On Wednesday, Luciano Ghirga, a lawyer representing Knox, claimed Knox had blamed an innocent man, local barman Patrick Lumumba for the murder after 53 hours of police interrogation spread out over "four days of stress and fear".

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/03/amanda-knox-meredith-kercher-case
 
Torture does not only include physical violence.

The actual text of Convention Article 3 goes well beyond "torture" and the ECHR case-law includes breaking a person's will or resistance to make that person say what the police want, rather than what the person wants to say.

There must be an investigation by the State of any credible allegation of violation of Article 3.

Article 3 – Prohibition of torture
No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

{The ECHR by case-law divides such allegations into two separate evaluations: one on the substance – meaning can the violation be proved beyond a reasonable doubt by evidence or inference, and the other on procedure – meaning did the authorities conduct an independent effective investigation of credible claims of the violation.}
 
Do you know who Madison is?

"Amanda is confused, terrorized," he told the jury. "She can hardly speak Italian."

By his count, she sat through more than 53 hours of police questioning over the course of five days before she was eventually arrested after breaking down and blaming an innocent man,


Do you think Dalla Vedova was confused as well?

You do know who he is, right?

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Amanda-Knox-a-victim-targeted-for-being-881849.php

On Wednesday, Luciano Ghirga, a lawyer representing Knox, claimed Knox had blamed an innocent man, local barman Patrick Lumumba for the murder after 53 hours of police interrogation spread out over "four days of stress and fear".

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/03/amanda-knox-meredith-kercher-case

Madison here must refer to Amanda's friend.

The lawyers' statements to the press may be less precise than what they present to a court. In fact, the actual hours of questioning* seem not to have been recorded by the police; it is their responsibility to keep track of such things. The lawyers were not present during any of the Nov. 2 - Nov. 8 interviews, interrogations, or custody, up to (for those who were actually called up to be present) apparently several minutes before the arrest confirmation hearing. Yet another violation of Convention Article 6.3c.

You don't have to accept the hyperbole of such statements; look for the actual records. Find the transcripts or other recordings of the Nov. 5/6 interrogations, for example.

*Although a single time (start?) of questioning is provided on the witness statements.
 
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The actual text of Convention Article 3 goes well beyond "torture" and the ECHR case-law includes breaking a person's will or resistance to make that person say what the police want, rather than what the person wants to say.

There must be an investigation by the State of any credible allegation of violation of Article 3.

Article 3 – Prohibition of torture
No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

{The ECHR by case-law divides such allegations into two separate evaluations: one on the substance – meaning can the violation be proved beyond a reasonable doubt by evidence or inference, and the other on procedure – meaning did the authorities conduct an independent effective investigation of credible claims of the violation.}

I am actually not sure if high pressure police questioning actually have much value. How do you know if you get what actually occurred or if you get something to just get the questioning over.

I have seen some high pressure question where afterwards the suspect leads to the body and that seems useful but not sure that it is the case with the majority.
 
I don't believe for a minute she was under any unethical pressure. Her own culpability is what made her break out in a sweat and heinously accuse an innocent person of rape and murder.

What do you think about the decision to deny access to a lawyer for 2 days after arrest? I can understand this may be appropriate in a national security case but not here. In the UK in a similar circumstance Knox would have been cautioned, arrested, detained overnight, and a formal recorded interview in the presence of her lawyer (after opportunity for the lawyer to consult with her client) would have been scheduled for the next day.
 
Do you know who Madison is?

"Amanda is confused, terrorized," he told the jury. "She can hardly speak Italian."

By his count, she sat through more than 53 hours of police questioning over the course of five days before she was eventually arrested after breaking down and blaming an innocent man,


Do you think Dalla Vedova was confused as well?

You do know who he is, right?

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Amanda-Knox-a-victim-targeted-for-being-881849.php

On Wednesday, Luciano Ghirga, a lawyer representing Knox, claimed Knox had blamed an innocent man, local barman Patrick Lumumba for the murder after 53 hours of police interrogation spread out over "four days of stress and fear".

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/03/amanda-knox-meredith-kercher-case

From your Guardian link:

"Opening the session, Manuela Comodi, for the prosecution, draped a bra over her microphone to show how Sollecito could have pulled at Kercher's bra strap, leaving his DNA on the clasp but not on the rest of the bra, or anywhere else in the bedroom."
How did Comodi do this, exactly?
 
Vixen said:
I don't believe for a minute she was under any unethical pressure. Her own culpability is what made her break out in a sweat and heinously accuse an innocent person of rape and murder.

What do you think about the decision to deny access to a lawyer for 2 days after arrest? I can understand this may be appropriate in a national security case but not here. In the UK in a similar circumstance Knox would have been cautioned, arrested, detained overnight, and a formal recorded interview in the presence of her lawyer (after opportunity for the lawyer to consult with her client) would have been scheduled for the next day.

It would be better if Amanda's accusers could stick to one story of their own. Did Amanda waltz in to the Questura nonchalantly and accuse Lumumba because of a prior & brilliant plan to throw the cops off, or did she break out in a sweat once an assumedly-guilty Amanda realized she suddenly had to account for a meeting with Lumumba as per her phone - a meeting which EVERYONE admits never took place?

That latter one certainly looks a lot like what was described: "She buckled and told us what we already knew."

If she'd simply, out of the blue, named Lumumba, why would the PLE under Mignini's order arrest him solely on her say so?
 
Madison here must refer to Amanda's friend.

The lawyers' statements to the press may be less precise than what they present to a court. In fact, the actual hours of questioning* seem not to have been recorded by the police; it is their responsibility to keep track of such things. The lawyers were not present during any of the Nov. 2 - Nov. 8 interviews, interrogations, or custody, up to (for those who were actually called up to be present) apparently several minutes before the arrest confirmation hearing. Yet another violation of Convention Article 6.3c.

You don't have to accept the hyperbole of such statements; look for the actual records. Find the transcripts or other recordings of the Nov. 5/6 interrogations, for example.

*Although a single time (start?) of questioning is provided on the witness statements.

If you had bothered to read the article you would know it was said in court.

Isn't it clear that I don't accept the hyperbole?
 
Well you care what Follain thinks and writes and Barbie was actually there .



Do you discount statements by people if you have caught them lying or exaggerating previously?

When a PGP calls the 5th brutal, Guantanamo like, or torture or states mixed blood was found do you :rolleyes: and dismiss the rest?

I think that the defense made it more difficult to stop the trial earlier by some of their tactics.

Since you think it funny or important to bring up the fact that I like to use words as they are defined, I'll remind you that you thought Hellmann got the calunnia correct which forever will influence how I view your assessments of things. :p

I just think it is silly to blame the defence for anything about this case when evidence is withheld - and I'm at that point only talking about the Italian practise of withholding evidence from the defence until the formal charge is made; fully almost a year after the arrest. FOA was in full swing by then, and they were essentially flying blind, except that what they DID know did not add up. This is essentially what converted Frank Sfarzo early on. What the PLE was peddling as guilt-sounding just did not add up, especially for what he saw on the ground in Perugia at the time.

It is clear that you believe that if you'd been the lead defence attorney that you believe they'd never have been convicted in 2009. I do not believe that. The way Massei handled obviously tainted "evidence" as put to his court, AK and RS were going to be convicted no matter what (at that time.)

Everyone not on the side of the prosecution was operating in a fog in the early days - dependent almost entirely on the excesses of the tabloid press, and what was leaked to the press by the prosecution. That is the one part of the Winterbottom film that Winterbottom got absolutely correct.

Once again it can only be repeated - why criticize people who essentially got it correct who in the process got a few details wrong? You tried to correct me for calling them innocents - saying that that was "cheerleading" - when, bizarrely, you also early on believed them to be innocent?

It's like saying that we both like the same team, we're both happy that our team won, yet you believe you had a better game-strategy to achieve the same result.

I don't get it.
 
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From your Guardian link:

"Opening the session, Manuela Comodi, for the prosecution, draped a bra over her microphone to show how Sollecito could have pulled at Kercher's bra strap, leaving his DNA on the clasp but not on the rest of the bra, or anywhere else in the bedroom."
How did Comodi do this, exactly?

Are you doubting she did a demonstration?

I have no idea what your point is. The 53 hour statement was made in court and more than one reporter reported it.
 
Once again it can only be repeated - why criticize people who essentially got it correct who in the process got a few details wrong? You tried to correct me for calling them innocents - saying that that was "cheerleading" - when, bizarrely, you also early on believed them to be innocent?

I found your use of the term when discussing the case as counter productive as the PGP calling all of us groupies when in fact only some arguing innocence or not guilty BARD were in fact groupies.

It's like saying that we both like the same team, we're both happy that our team won, yet you believe you had a better game-strategy to achieve the same result.

Had the Seahawks not thrown an interception on the last play they had but had completed the pass I'm sure many would have said that was a risky pass and they would have been smarter to call a roll-out or a fade pattern.

Whereas I didn't say I as attorney would have done better many PIP during the first trial (before your time) thought the defense sucked. I believe Randy was very much of that opinion.

What would you be saying if the ISC had confirmed?
 
Are you doubting she did a demonstration?

I have no idea what your point is. The 53 hour statement was made in court and more than one reporter reported it.

I was digressing Grinder - but using your link - relax man!

Since there are myriad ways in which to deposit one's DNA around the place, the idea that one could demonstrate how it couldn't happen, not just on one particular object, but anywhere in the room, is astonishing. She believed he was in the room, obviously.

As for 53 hours, we seem to have reached an impasse. Amanda was with the police or waiting for the police for that extraordinary amount of time and also at their beck and call, but it does not appear she was under questioning for the entire period. Yet, she was still interrogated for unacceptably lengthy periods on multiple occasions over 5 days. I'm not sure this gives the police and prosecutor a great deal of extra credit. Do you?
 
I was digressing Grinder - but using your link - relax man!

Got it :thumbsup:


As for 53 hours, we seem to have reached an impasse. Amanda was with the police or waiting for the police for that extraordinary amount of time and also at their beck and call, but it does not appear she was under questioning for the entire period. Yet, she was still interrogated for unacceptably lengthy periods on multiple occasions over 5 days. I'm not sure this gives the police and prosecutor a great deal of extra credit. Do you?

It doesn't give them credit at all. Apparently my point is not being made or it just doesn't resonate.

The GD (greater defense) in and out of court exaggerated things and I don't believe it helped their cause. I think they helped back the PLE/ILE against the wall and made it even harder for them to back down and may have stimulated some of the extra "work" they performed.
 
I found your use of the term when discussing the case as counter productive as the PGP calling all of us groupies when in fact only some arguing innocence or not guilty BARD were in fact groupies.
I'm afraid this is what I don't get. "Counter-productive" towards "what?" You seem to succomb to "groupie-speak" and the same sort of name-calling in ways I find counter-productive, in the sense that it implies you see things clearer and because you have no bias. And that smehow those who say essentially the same things as you, bu are no as wise, are therefore groupies and to be see as.... what? Responsible for delaying the Italian system from exonerating two obviously innocent people!?

I just don't get it.

Had the Seahawks not thrown an interception on the last play they had but had completed the pass I'm sure many would have said that was a risky pass and they would have been smarter to call a roll-out or a fade pattern.

Whereas I didn't say I as attorney would have done better many PIP during the first trial (before your time) thought the defense sucked. I believe Randy was very much of that opinion.

What would you be saying if the ISC had confirmed?

Once again, that last part is irrelevant, as I said before. Maybe you could help me understand what it is you are on about by yourself having a crack at your own questions. (Note: it would be unhelpful to answer as if answering for what you think I'd say - I genuinely want to know how YOU'D answer that question to get a sense as to why it is even important.)

What would YOU be saying if the ISC had confirmed? Would you have back-tracked on any of your own innocence claims?

You see, Grinder, what I have trouble with is trying to define your agenda. Please note, I do not mean that pejoratively. We are both "innocentisti", we both made mistakes early on (except perhaps you saw through things immediately, which would have bordered on miraculous - both Candace Dempsey and Frank Sfarzo were both "innocentiti" early on, having changed sides from their first beliefs.)

I don't get this constant agenda to vilify early FOA for getting a lot wrong (mainly because for the first 12 months the prosecution "owned" all the information, and even after that did not practise "full disclosure" in any meaningful sense of the term.)

Is it true that you, and only you own the sole, unadulterated and pure version of the kids' innocence - something which set you so much apart from the early FOA that you continue to this day take shots at them? Is it true that yours is so different, that when others say essentially the same thing, but came in later and with a differing learning curve, they, then, become cheerleaders and counter-productive?

Mainly, I don't get the agenda here - if I have at all captured what you are saying. (I have a great rhetorical escape route for all this, I must warn you. It's mainly that I do not "get" what you're saying, except that you keep saying it.)

ETA - I think this is why we should take this to PM. It sounds to me like there's REALLY something you want say, but aren't saying it because this is public. Please, this is the second time I request this. Take it to PM.
 
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Got it :thumbsup:




It doesn't give them credit at all. Apparently my point is not being made or it just doesn't resonate.

The GD (greater defense) in and out of court exaggerated things and I don't believe it helped their cause. I think they helped back the PLE/ILE against the wall and made it even harder for them to back down and may have stimulated some of the extra "work" they performed.

So let me get this straight. The victims of the judicial injustice are partly to blame. To prevent this from being 20/20 hindsight or Monday morning quarterbacking, are you aware of any contemporaneous attempt to try to get the Perugian defence to change tack, and they did not listen?
 
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From your Guardian link:

"Opening the session, Manuela Comodi, for the prosecution, draped a bra over her microphone to show how Sollecito could have pulled at Kercher's bra strap, leaving his DNA on the clasp but not on the rest of the bra, or anywhere else in the bedroom."
How did Comodi do this, exactly?


Obviously, Raffaele managed doing that with Amanda's help ...you must have forgot that Amanda is a witch with supernatural powers, eh?
:)
 
From your Guardian link:

"Opening the session, Manuela Comodi, for the prosecution, draped a bra over her microphone to show how Sollecito could have pulled at Kercher's bra strap, leaving his DNA on the clasp but not on the rest of the bra, or anywhere else in the bedroom."
How did Comodi do this, exactly?


Are you doubting she did a demonstration?

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Comodi apparently did such a demonstration, so I feel that the point of the question was how could Comodi possibly demonstrate how a bra could be cut off of Meredith's body by Raffaele (using a microphone in liu of Meredith's body), with Comodi ONLY touching that bra's tiny metal clasps and nothing else on the bra?

Such a demonstration would obviously be IMPOSSIBLE to accomplish, so how did Comodi do it?

Just one of many countless prosecution absurdities.
 
So let me get this straight. The victims of the judicial injustice are partly to blame. To prevent this from being 20/20 hindsight or Monday morning quarterbacking, are you aware of any contemporaneous attempt to try to get the Perugian defence to change tack, and they did not listen?

Yes.
 
If you had bothered to read the article you would know it was said in court.

Isn't it clear that I don't accept the hyperbole?

Indeed, I have not yet read the article. Nor have I read the specific in-court statements that the article is based on. However, have you considered the possibility the media account may be a distortion (not necessarily intentional) of what was said in court? Have you checked your media source against court documents? Even relatively reliable media may make reporting errors.
 
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