I staunchly believe in the innocence of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. Help me understand those of you who believe in guilt. Do I have the following list right? Maybe this is how we can pinpoint where our differences lie.
This is my own creation, and I need it in list manner to understand you. I want to update it when notified of discrepancies with trustworthy sources. I will make additions that are in complete sentences referring to specific verifiable actions.
In order of importance, those who believe in guilt believe:
1) Amanda Knox accused Patrick Lumumba voluntarily of murder in her final middle-of-the-night unrecorded confession without coercion on the part of the interrogation team.
2) Even though Amanda pointed a finger towards Patrick Lumumba as the murderer and he proved innocent, her other statements in the interrogation were truthful, such as she was in the cottage covering her ears. This “covering my ears” statement is as good as admitting to abetting in the murder of Meredith Kercher, even though Amanda made no other statements regarding witnessing the actual murder.
3) That during this final interrogation, Amanda Knox was not threatened with jail for 30 years, nor hit on the back of the head, and she had an adequate professional interpreter. The denying of an attorney was for expediency and she was not yet a suspect. She was good enough at speaking Italian and mature enough to understand what was occurring. She deserves being sued for defamation for stating she was struck by the policewoman she identified with “long, chestnut colored hair.”
4) Rudy Guede was in the murder room assisted by Amanda Knox and Raffaele, even though there is no DNA or other evidence of Amanda's being there, and no communication was ever proven prior (or subsequently) via cell phone, or any evidence produced that they even really knew each other. Amanda knew Rudy by sight and had seen him a few times (due to her downstairs roommates) and Raffaele didn’t know him at all.
5) The bra clasp with Raffaele’s DNA collected 47 days after the murder (all the while Raffaele was in jail with NO evidence against him) found in a separate part of the murder room and even dropped on the floor by the collection team unquestioningly did indeed have his DNA along with 3 other people still unidentified. This DNA had to have been deposited while the murder was taking place by Raffaele himself. The rare low copy number process of DNA analysis used is sound.
6) The Double DNA knife found in Raffaele’s apartment several blocks away was indeed one of the murder weapons (there had to be 2 knives because Raffaele’s apartment knife was too big for two of the neck wounds), and the fact that Amanda’s DNA was on the handle, which could be expected since she cooked with it, definitely proves to be the murder weapon because Meredith’s non-blood DNA was found on the blade. No other knives from this drawer were tested to cross check for contamination. This is proof Amanda did at least one neck injury to Meredith.
7) The smoking of hashish by Amanda and Raffaele is an indication of poor character and helped lead them to becoming murderers. They may have been addicts. Amanda and Raffaele’s positive school attendance records and teacher interactions, or lack of prior history towards violence, have no bearing on this case.
8) Amanda Knox heavily influenced Rudy Guede and Raffaele. She had power over them.
9) Even though Amanda never did a true “cartwheel” at the police station while talking politely with police officers (she really did a yoga exercise), it doesn’t matter. It was behavior of a murderess, along with her purchase of underwear, and odd behavior at the police station witnessed by Meredith’s British friends who had learned of the murder several hours after Amanda.
10) Rudy Guede’s prior brushes with the law do not indicate a violent person. He needed Amanda Knox to push him to murder.
11) The times Amanda and Raffaele turned off their cell phones is an indication of guilt.
12) The conflicting statements by Amanda regarding times and durations of phone calls made to roommates and Amanda’s mother before the murder was discovered is an indication of guilt. The time of Amanda’s call to her mother in a different time zone, waking her up, is also an indication of guilt.
13) The interrogations were done properly and legally, and there is no way that Amanda Knox’s final statement in the middle of the night after 50+ hours of attendance at the police station and interrogations during the first 90 hours of the discovery of the body would have made the statements she did unless she was guilty. Doesn’t matter that she attended class that week and couldn’t sleep at night, because she was guilty. (Many students were fleeing Perugia due to fear.)
14) The mixed DNA of Amanda and Meredith in the bathroom they shared must be due to Amanda’s involvement in the murder. Also, the one case of mixed DNA of Amanda’s in another roommate’s room Amanda had entered is an indication of guilt.
15) There was a staged break-in. No doubt about it. (I need a succinct sentence or two here on why those who believe in guilt believe this.)
16) The prosecution’s leaking of evidence and falsehoods to the press in Italy has nothing to do with the outcome of the trial.
17) The illegal behavior in a prior serial murder case by the main prosecutor of Amanda and Raffaele, Giuliano Mignini, has no bearing on this case.
18) The noise citation Amanda Knox received due to live bands at a party she had in Seattle is an indication of a troubled person. (There was no rock throwing at this party as reported in tabloids.)
To sum up, I request those of you who believe in guilt to advise me where I am misunderstanding your positions as outlined above.
