Ok, so I'm kind of arguing with some dude on Twitter (Pat A. @pataz1). Anyway, you know how hard it can be when your the one that's not the expert... I told him I was going to go to my skeptics board and get some help with the experts.
So first question. He says.
"According to the sentence, this [SMS to patrick] was not written from Raffaele's house." #amandaKnox
Is this true.
I'm doing this from memory so apologies if it is wrong, so emptor caveat.....
IIRC this was the reasoning Judge Nencini used at the 2013 trial to "prove" that Amanda had left the apartment.
But - here's the deal - Nencini didn't use this factoid about which cell tower processed the Lumumba SMS-text to prove that Knox had left the apartment to go wreck mayhem back at the cottage.
Why? Because even in Nencini's bizarre recreation, Knox then made it back to be seen by Jovana Popovic, the Serbian medical student who was an acquaintance of Raffaele Sollecito but was not known to Amanda Knox. Popovic was at the apartment to say she no longer needed the ride to the train station.
So why did Nencini make a big deal about this factoid about the cell-tower used for the SMS-text to Lumumba, when it added nothing to any "proof" that she'd left the apartment AFTER Popovic saw her?
Because it proved that Knox was a liar.
When one goes through Nencini's factoid-evidence, piece by piece, to see if it's reconstruction sustains a guilty verdict, one runs into a myriad of stuff like this. Which is why........
...... The Italian Supreme Court said in annulling the conviction, and exonerating the pair:
9.4.3. It can easily be observed that the conclusion that there was a lack of an
evidentiary framework consistent and sufficient to support the prosecution’s
hypothesis regarding the more serious case of murder certainly reverberates on the
residual, secondary accusations, listed here, d) theft of mobile phones and e)
simulation of a crime.
10. The intrinsic contradictory nature of the evidence, emerging from the text of
the appealed verdict, in essence undermines the connective tissue of the same,
leading to its annulment.
In fact, in the presence of a scenario marked by many contradictions, the
referral judge should not have come to a verdict of guilt.....
At the end of the day, the criminal issue under question is not whether Knox is a liar; esp. a liar about relatively trivial issues. The Supreme Court found that this factoid, even if true, was simply one of those residual, secondary accusations which added nothing to the main case.
Let's at least first provide some proof that someone other than Rudy Guede was involved in the murder, so that "proving" that Knox was a liar is even interesting!!!
This is the problem with the 147-character world of Twitter. On points like this all Twitter is good for is: "She's guilty", "No she's not", "She's guilty", "No she's not", "She's guilty", "No she's not", "She's guilty", "No she's not", "She's guilty", "No she's not", "She's guilty", "No she's not", "She's guilty", "No she's not", "She's guilty", "No she's not", "She's guilty", "No she's not", "She's guilty", "No she's not"..... ad nauseam.