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No, Europe is NOT international.
Lmao I called it. Took a whole 16 minutes.
No, Europe is NOT international.
It was your arguments to which I was referring, not mine. But you know that of course, didn't you![]()
Lmao I called it. Took a whole 16 minutes.
Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. To the east and southeast, Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways of the Turkish Straits.[4] Yet the non-oceanic borders of Europe—a concept dating back to classical antiquity—are arbitrary. The primarily physiographic term "continent" as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent's current overland boundaries.
Europe covers about 10,180,000 square kilometres (3,930,000 sq mi), or 2% of the Earth's surface (6.8% of land area). Politically, Europe is divided into about fifty sovereign states of which the Russian Federation is the largest and most populous, spanning 39% of the continent and comprising 15% of its population. Europe had a total population of about 740 million (about 11% of world population) as of 2012.[5]
WRONG. It was Professor Novelli and Torrecelli (_sp?) who pointed out this was a mischievous argument in the case of 65(i) as there was precise technology for embryology. The court accepted the prosecution argument accordingly and directed that the sample be tested. They took the task out of Vecchiotti & Conti's hand, as they clearly could not be trusted.
What in God's name is sample 65 (i)?
You obviously know nothing of this case.
NEW: from wiki:
Clear now?
International mostly means something (a company, language, or organization) involving more than a single country. The term international as a word means involvement of, interaction between or encompassing more than one nation, or generally beyond national boundaries. For example, international law, which is applied by more than one country and usually everywhere on Earth, and international language which is a language spoken by residents of more than one country.
Stop being so disingenuous.
http://www.ishinews.com/iso-18385-the-creation-of-a-forensic-grade-standard/
You DO know, the murder took place 2007 and the trial was in 2009?
No, Europe is NOT international. EUROPE means EUROPE. (Not the Missouri Highway Patrol Handbook, as wheeled out by the defence.)
bamboozles you?ISO 18385:2016 being the most recent.
NEW: from wiki:
Clear now?
No. You have not resolved your claim that Italy and the UK are the same nation.
Erratum: that should, of course, read 36(i).
Still, it's nice to make your day.
Is there really a poster to this thread who believes that a European agency which sets forensic protocols, means that these are not "international" protocols?
Has Westminster ceded political authority to Rome? Or has both signed on to the European version of forensic protocols?
For heaven's sake, even Judge Nencini, one of the convicting judges, agreed with the defence claim that Stefanoni had not followed international protocols. I've posted the cite twice in the last week.....
..... and the offended poster is still trying to argue that Europe is not an international body, comprised of sovereign nation states?
Yes folks, this is what passes for guilter logic, when all one does is reads the nutjob websites and the fake wiki.
The issue not brought forward with the subject of whether or not "international protocols" were followed is why they must be followed under Italian law for the purposes of generating valid evidence.
CPP Article 192.2, Evaluation of evidence, states:
The existence of a fact cannot be inferred from circumstantial evidence unless such evidence is serious, precise and consistent.
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DNA profiles not obtained in accordance with the standards set by the international scientific community, standards based upon a long history of empirical research and available in the scientific literature as well as certain forensic science organizations, cannot satisfy the requirements of CPP Article 192.2 to constitute serious, precise and consistent evidence.
The alleged DNA profile of Meredith Kercher allegedly found on the blade of the knife in Raffaele Sollecito's kitchen does not satisfy CPP Art. 192.2 because it was obtained without regard to international protocols for LCN DNA or any validation of the methods used by the forensic worker, P. Stefanoni.
There are several other inconsistencies of the knife blade as evidence which show that, in accordance with CPP Art. 192.2, it may not be inferred to be the murder weapon: no blood was detected on the blade visually or by the forensic tests applied; no tissue was detected on the blade by any objective test; it is the wrong size compared to the wounds on Kercher; it had been subjected to only casual washing, as shown by the presence of starch from plants on the blade; there was no evidence that the knife was ever taken from Sollecito's apartment (except when it was seized by the police).
Therefore, the alleged DNA profile of Kercher allegedly found on the blade cannot be used to infer the existence of a fact - such as that the knife blade from Sollecito's kitchen ever came into contact with Meredith Kercher.
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The defence teams of Amanda and Raffaele had no objection to the knife being opened which indicated they had not used the knife and there was no blood between where the handle joins the blade. The prosecution on the other hand did not want the knife opened which indicated the prosecution knew there was blood where the handle joined the blade.
The knife has no credibility and is full of holes. ....
If the prosecution had a mountain of solid, credible and reliable evidence against Amanda and Raffaele and a strong case, why did the prosecution have to resort to using totally lacking in credibility and full of holes such as the knife? The fact the prosecution had to resort to using evidence with no credibility indicates the prosecution had such a lack of credible and reliable evidence and a weak case, they were forced to use evidence with no credibility. How is this explained if the prosecution had a strong case?
It is nice to see that you have the capacity to admit to a mistake. This is a good start.
Now - if you can provide a citation to ANYONE who is a peer-reviewed, forensic-DNA expert who agrees with Stefanoni's work and results......
So far you simply named Prof Novelli, the prosecution's expert who testified in Sept 2011. In that testimony, as later summarized by the 2013/4 Nencini court, Novelli conceded that Stefanoni did not meet international standards in that she did not do multiple amplifications of the samples, therefore the defence was right to contend that Stefanoni's results were unreliable.
And all that was Judge Nencini simply summarizing/concluding what he'd read in Novelli's trial testimony. However, despite this, Nencini convicted anyway - a verdict which the Italian Supreme Court reversed in 2015. They acquitted the pair (exonerating them) for the mass of contradictions Nencini had in his report.....
........ which is the very subject we are discussing. Even the prosecution and victim's experts agreed that Stefanoni's results had not met the international standards for reliability when only doing one amplification.
..... and just to come full circle, I would never have known this if you had not (wrongly) cited Novelli as being a peer-reviewed (which he is) forensic-DNA expert (which he is) who stood by Stefanoni's work (which he didn't).
You have shown the ability to admit to mistakes which is rare on these threads. It's probably time you reprised the effort with the question which has been asked of you for weeks now:
Name one peer-reviewed forensic-DNA expert who supports Stefanoni's work? (Please forget the excuse you once offered that she's only a technician with allegiance only to the police, because if that is true - why did you then offer Prof. Novelli as an answer? It sounds like you're simply making things up as you go.)
You are beginning to look like a one-trick pony. All you have is the Tennessee Two Step.
Maybe this document from the UK's Crown Prosecution Service will help in understanding what is required for LCN DNA to be acceptable for use in a criminal case, and thus why the alleged DNA profile of Kercher that Stefanoni claimed present on the knife blade is worthless as evidence. Note that VALIDATION and ACCREDITATION are key concepts, as well as meeting of ENSFI and SWGDAM guidelines.
Source: https://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/prosecution/lcn_testing_annex_b.html
Low Copy Number DNA testing in the Criminal Justice System
Annex B - Validation and accreditation of the technique
Two principal Forensic Science Service papers about LCN have been published in peer-reviewed journals.
Further extensive validation covering all the stages of the technique and interpretation of results includes eleven more papers, forty-three internal FSS Research Reports, contributions to several textbooks and a European collaborative exercise.
A list of the externally published FSS papers, internal research reports produced and validation that was carried out to support all the stages of the LCN process is available from FSS Headquarters on request.
Further work is not 'publishable' in scientific journals since it will no longer be novel – eg; once Dolly the sheep had been cloned, the next cloned sheep was no longer news!
The Custodian of the NDNAD sets the standards for DNA profiles that are acceptable for adding to the NDNAD. LCN has been accepted by the Custodian for this purpose since 2002, following successful completion of proficiency tests.
In 2007, an external review was commissioned by an ACPO chaired working group. The review accepted that the FSS LCN method was validated according to the processes that were in force within the FSS at the time, although currently not against any internationally or nationally recognised technical standard.
The FSS processes have been accredited for LCN to ISO17025 by UKAS (www.ukas.com) since 2001 and ISO9001 by BSI since 2005. Information about these standards can be obtained from (www.iso.org).
The guidelines set by the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENSFI) and the Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis methods (SWGDAM) have been met.
A collaborative study with other European forensic laboratories and the US Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory reported that LCN compared favourably against other methods for testing poor quality samples: (www.cstl.nist.gov/biotech/strbase/pub_pres/EDNAP_degradedDNAstudy.pdf)
No No No, Numbers!!! Stop throwing all this, like, evidence and science and reason and logic and stuff around! Besides, everyone knows that Italian DNA follows totally different scientific rules. Yes, that's right - DNA science actually works differently in Italy! So none of this is relevant in any conceivable way to Knox and Sollecito in any case! D'uh!
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No No No, Numbers!!! Stop throwing all this, like, evidence and science and reason and logic and stuff around! Besides, everyone knows that Italian DNA follows totally different scientific rules. Yes, that's right - DNA science actually works differently in Italy! So none of this is relevant in any conceivable way to Knox and Sollecito in any case! D'uh!
Definitely-a-real-doctor Stefanoni and fine, upstanding PMs Mignini and Comodi could - as any fule kno - do and say just whatever they wanted in respect of the DNA evidence in this case. If they said it, then it was true - and unimpeachably true at that. And not only true, but also scientifically robust and ethical. These were honest, fair people diligently serving the Italian state. They practically stand apart as ethical giants with unparalleled expertise - certainly when set against the rats and snakes who were bribed to give scientific "evidence" for volpe cattiva Amanda and Knifey Raff, both of whom (as a given, d'uh!) cruelly hacked down MezzyWezzyWezBob.
I can't believe you (and everyone else) doesn't understand this. Sheeeeesh.
Thanks for pointing out that in Italy DNA follows different scientific rules.
That's what the guilters have been saying all this time.
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The potential of this delicate new application of the PCR technology can only show to be an advantage if the analysis is executed under rigorously clean laboratory conditions with proper negative and positive controls and if the guidelines for the evaluation of the profiles are fully taken into account [2].
Finally, in the course of this study, it appeared that reamplification of PCR products from LCN samples with an extra 6 PCR cycles seems to offer an alternative and promising new approach for typing LCN samples in the forensic DNA practice.
References
[2] P. Gill, J. Whitaker, C. Flaxman, N. Brown, J. Buckleton, An investigation of the rigor of interpretation rules for STRs derived from less than 100 pg of DNA, Forensic Sci. Int. 112 (2000) 17–40.
Source: Efficacy and limits of genotyping low copy number
DNA samples by multiplex PCR of STR loci
A.D. Kloosterman*, P. Kersbergen
Netherlands Forensic Institute, Volmerlaan 17, 2288 GD Rijswijk, The Netherlands
International Congress Series 1239 (2003) 795– 798
https://www.isfg.org/.../31f9316afbc584bc0befd4454d6cd38c4f064f3a....
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