Numbers, in regard to your post about the cat's blood downstairs, etc., there was no motive for the police and/or scientific police to hide or lie about this blood unless you believe they had some nefarious intention. This would have to include outright malicious prosecution of Knox and Sollecito, which I don't believe. I've never believed the police or prosecution
knowingly prosecuted two innocent people. Jumped to conclusions too early? Yes. Blinded by their own bias? Yes. Not very good at their jobs? Yes. Screwed up? Yes. Knew Knox and Sollecito were innocent? No.
Looking at the photos of the blood downstairs, they are clearly drops such as would be left by blood dripping straight down or spatter. The photo of the light switch, shows blood spatter, not a smear such as would be left if rubbing against or touching it:
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Additionally, there are several drops of blood on the chair cushion and arm and several droplets and smears of blood on the bed as well as the floor. This is consistent of where a cat would walk, jump on, and settle down for a nap. A cat jumping from a chair to the bed or similar would also explain the blue pillowcase being knocked to the floor. What makes less sense is Guede
not dripping all this blood in the bathroom upstairs or as he walks down the hallway and out the front door... but then leaving it on the front stairs, on the floor, on the chair, and bed.
As I said earlier, a hematoma on the cat's ear would account for the amount of blood seen downstairs. Hematoma's are rather common on cat's and dog's ears. My cocker spaniel had one and it bled all over everything. Her long ear was soaked in blood.
I won't pretend to understand all the technical DNA information, but I simply do not believe there was a police conspiracy to hide forensic evidence of Guede downstairs in order to 'get' Knox and Sollecito.
Let's apply some real "logic" here.
1. It is indisputable that the police and prosecution hid and misstated evidence of what occurred in the downstairs flat: 1) DNA profile evidence was suppressed; 2) Stefanoni's testimony and "original" hand-entry work records (SALs) contradicted the machine-output DNA amplification records she provided, thus there was misconduct in that part of her testing and recording (as there was in other relevant parts of her other work in the case); 3) the police and prosecution claimed as certain that the blood was left by a cat but there was no certain evidence of that - in fact, there was forensic evidence suggesting that the blood was human.
2. Contrary to statements that the blood stains consisted only of drops, there are blood stains on the bed in the downstairs flat that are essentially linear or curved marks. These stains
may be consistent with marks left by a bloody knife.
3. In his statements to the police, Guede stated that he heard noises in the downstairs flat while he was in the upstairs flat with Meredith Kercher after he had her blood on his clothing; the following is from his 26 March 2008 statement*:
Guede: When Meredith was no longer… at a certain point she… like, I don’t know how to define it, she had like… at a certain point it’s like she slipped away and in that moment I didn’t know what to do, so many thoughts came to mind, I didn’t know whether to go into the street and shout that something had happened, at a certain point I panicked and I said to myself “here no one will believe me” because I repeat, I had blood on my hands, I went down on my knee… when I placed the cushion, I had this left part of my foot, of the left knee anyway that had become drenched because I placed myself next to her trying to help her… I had so many thoughts come to my mind until at a certain point the thing which frightened me the most is that I heard from the floor below, or rather below the house, below as if someone was moving a table, a chair, that classic noise that you hear, and there I became frightened that I wouldn’t be believed about what had happened.
Mignini: Then there was someone else that had gone below?
Guede: I heard a noise as if someone had gone below.
Attorney: Who was going towards…
Mignini: The apartment of the guys.
Guede: Yes.
Attorney: Towards the apartment of the guys or towards the road?
Guede: No, towards the apartment of the guys was my perception… It was as if someone was moving…
Mignini: Yes, then you left.
*Notice Mignini gives him the answer instead of asking if it was him who entered the apartment.
4. Understanding fully the issue of authorities claiming that DNA testing shows that blood is from a cat when the actual DNA test evidence shows that the blood
may be from a human does require some minimum technical knowledge. In particular, one element of the PCR DNA replication (amplification) requires that a primer - a length of DNA that has been designed and manufactured to match only human DNA near the STR - assures that if the DNA template (the DNA present in the forensic sample) replicates in the PCR testing, it is human DNA.
5. The downstairs flat issues are only one instance of the police and prosecution misconduct in the case. There are a number of other instances of such misconduct. Whether or not the police and prosecutor "knew" or "believed" Knox and Sollecito to be guilty or innocent is immaterial to the fact that official misconduct occurred. Such misconduct is a violation of international law in the Council of Europe states (including Italy), according to the Convention and ECHR case-law.
6. The following must be considered exculpatory evidence for Knox and Sollecito, based upon the prosecution theory of the crime: 1. there was blood in the downstairs flat that
may be from a human based on forensic DNA testing; 2) its deposition patterns, including the linear and curved stains on the downstairs bed, the blood on the pillow case (which according to the flat tenants, had been on a line to dry), and the blood on the light switch, are not consistent with blood deposits from a cat with a bleeding ear but may be consistent with Meredith's murder entering and moving about in the downstairs flat.
Contrary to police or prosecution statements about the presence of a cat with a bleeding ear, the actual witness statement from Marzan, one of the downstairs tenants, includes this 3 November 2007 statement*: "The black cat actually has an injured ear but I am not aware that it has dripped blood".
Because the inferences from the fully truthful reporting of the evidence from the downstairs flat was exculpatory to Knox and Sollecito by the establishment of reasonable doubt, and because according to Italian law (CPP Article 533) a guilty conviction must only be pronounced if there is evidence (proof) of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the police and prosecution untruthfully stated in court and presented false official records (apparently contradicted by DNA machine-generated records) that the blood stains found in the downstairs flat were cat blood.
There was no certain evidence to support that these stains were cat blood and there was clear DNA forensic evidence, blood staine pattern evidence, and witness testimony to support that they were not cat blood. The DNA evidence is conclusive that either the blood stains were from human blood or the surface under the sampled stain contained human DNA or both.
The police and prosecution fabricated arbitrary (not legally justified) reasoning to justify ignoring the downstairs blood stains, just as Judge Massei fabricated arbitrary reasoning to justify the prosecution refusal to DNA test the apparent semen stains found by the defense expert - and surprisingly apparently never recorded by the police - on the pillow under Meredith's body.
*Source:
http://www.amandaknoxcase.com/blood-evidence-downstairs-apartment/
