Because the matters on which he is charged have absolutely NO bearing on this trial whatsoever. What do I mean by 'no bearing'? I mean they are completely unrelated. If his charges involved falsifying evidence against people or destroying evidence that could exonerate people, then they 'may' have some bearing on the other trials he has performed, since what he did in other cases, he may have also done in those and that would very much change the perspective on whether those people may actually be guilty or not. However, the nature of what he has been charged with...unlawful phone taps...has no bearing on Raffaele and Amanda, even if he had employed unlawful phone taps in their case (which he did not) since they were not convicted on the basis of any phone taps.
The second point. His office would not allow him to continue his work as a prosecutor, if for one moment they considered the charges in the other affair would throw the slightest doubt on any current and future cases.
The third point. Raffaele, Rudy and Amanda were not only prosecuted by Mignini, but by Comodi, whose record is completely unblemished.
Fourth, regardless of the charges against Mignini, he is highly respected in Perigia, both by the general population and more importantly, by the Perugian judiciary.
Finally, the Italian system simply does not work in that way. Your Mignini 'fallguy' theory amounts to little more then tentative postulations that have been offered by, for the most part, certain Anglo journalists and bloggers who don't have the faintest understanding either of the charges against Mignini, the strength of the case against the couple or the Italian system.
This bit ceases to amaze me.
Katy apparently still believes the FoA line about this being an Italian conspiracy against Knox and that due to American pressure, somehow the Appellate court will decide that the best course of action is to exonerate Knox and use Mignini as the fallguy for this.
What she, and those like her, fail to realize is that this is not, and has not been, a conspiracy against an American. There is no conspiracy involving the Prosecution, the Italian legal system, the forensics teams, etc.
Let me repeat that with some emphasis added:
There is no conspiracy involving the Prosecution, the Italian legal system, the forensics teams, etc.
Therefore, it follows that there is no need for a "fall guy", regardless of how much one might wish to believe as much.
Therefore, it follows that the forensics results are to be examined as well as the rest of the evidence. Once we have trimmed off all the various possible explanations, the explanation that remains, however improbably you might imagine/desire it to be, is the truth.
Here we have a mountain of evidence with the closest thing to a refutation being "well, it's the Italians, they don't know what they're doing" or references to other cases elsewhere in the world that don't necessarily apply, or smugly vague accusations of incompetence on the one hand tempered by competence by the same people.
So, we have Amanda's bloody shoeprint in Filomena's room. No reasonable explanation has been offered for how it got there other than that Amanda herself left the mark.
We have Sollecito not only admitting that the knife came into contact with Meredith, but making up a story to excuse it. A story that his co-defendant exposed.
We have Sollecito's DNA on a bra clasp that was hidden underneath the body. A clasp that, while it was retrieved at a later date, had absolutely no other means of coming into contact with Sollecito's DNA.
We're supposed to accept that Amanda tells the truth when it would exonerate her, but she was confused about everything that happened. And everyone else was lying if they said anything incriminating Amanda, while telling the truth if it's something that can be used to her benefit.
Halides would have us believe that the bleach used to clean the knife would have destroyed every bit of DNA-containing skin cells...and yet in a lab where the Technicians are thoroughly trained in decontamination procedures, the bleach didn't manage to kill all the DNA from Sollecito. This juxtaposition is not the only he presents.
The DNA evidence against Guede has not been challenged on the same lines as that against Sollecito and Knox. Not one person has claimed that Guede's DNA was mishandled, or contaminated. Not one. So while we're expected to accept that the forensics team was completely incompetent with Knox and Sollecito DNA, they were completely competent with Guede's.
This thread needs to be moved to CT or something...the "arguments" presented by those on Amanda's side have become utterly pathetic and self-contradictory, requiring a massive conspiracy to be accurate.
Lie to yourselves all you want (Kestrel, Dan O., Halides, Lane, Matthew, Katy, et al), but it's apparent that you're in denial and failing miserably at attempts to rationalize what you want to be true. No different from 9/11 Truthers, UFOlogists, anti-Vaxers, the religious, et al.
