Amanda said Filomena's door was closed when she (Amanda) returned to the apartment. Rudy would have to have touched the door to close the door behind him.
It's impossible that he left no fingerprints on that door but left fingerprints everywhere else. He was never in Filomena's room.
No it's not impossible. He could well have been wearing gloves at this point, he could well have closed the door with his foot, or he might have slid his hand off the doorknob, smudging and destroying his prints, rather than lifting his fingers off leaving clear prints behind.
"Impossible" does not mean "I don't think it's very likely based on only on a moment's thought".
Doesn't matter, the truth remains that nothing was taken. A burglar goes to the trouble of throwing a rock through a window, climbing in the window and takes....nothing!
Possibly he was looking for money, laptops, cell phones and other high-value goods and didn't see any? He seems to have been the kind of housebreaker who wasn't shy about taking his time and helping himself to the fridge and the toilet, so he wasn't trying to get in and out as fast as possible with whatever he could grab in sixty seconds.
I don't think the position of the glass means anything because yes, Filomena moved things around in her room. Why? Because she wanted to see if any of her possessions had been stolen. She had to take the time to look through her stuff to see if anything was missing. But guess who immediately knew that nothing was missing, even though he had never been in that room....Raffaele!
I don't think it's either honest or reasonable to take absolutely everything Amanda and Raffaele said under stressful conditions to be either absolutely, precisely true or a giveaway that they are murderers. He wasn't aware of anything being taken, so he said nothing had been taken. I don't think any reasonable, decent human being would take that to be a claim that he had personally overseen a complete inventory of the house contents that morning and was absolutely sure nothing had been taken.
Wow, what an alibi! If this was true you would think either Amanda or Raffaele would have mentioned this considering they were facing a life sentence for murder.
In none of their statements to authorities, their families, their friends or in their prison diaries has watching Naruto on the night of the murder ever been stated. It won't work on appeal.
It may have slipped your mind that they were convicted of a murder that allegedly happened long after 21:26, or even 21:49. As far as I can tell Amanda and Raffaele were far too ready to believe the stories concocted by the prosecution, and had absolutely no idea that Meredith had actually been murdered around 21:00.
If I want to veer into guilter-logic speculation, I could well speculate that if Raffaele and Amanda
had murdered Meredith they would have known when it happened, and would have been alert to the potential defence benefits of contesting the prosecution's time of death. The fact that they did not do so could be taken as a strong indication that they had no more idea than anybody else did about when Meredith died.
The walk from his apartment to hers is about 10 minutes so even if they left his apartment at 9:10 they could be at hers by 9:20, just in time to walk in on the attack, which is what I think happened. It's good to you say "his innocence" because it's ridiculous that "human interaction" on a computer explain the whereabouts of two people.
The prosecution theory is that they did it together: If one of them was at home, then at least one of them has been wrongfully convicted, and the prosecution case is still falsified.
I would truely love to see the FOA collectively, make up a list of everyone that they believe lied, mistaken or was incompetent in this case, then compare it a Guilters, (which has but 2 names on it). That would surely be quite telling.
Indeed. Given the mass of evidence that the Perugia police were incompetent and unethical in some aspects of their handling of this case, it is extraordinarily telling if someone believes that their handling of the case was exemplary.
Neither am I aware of such conclusive evidence. Which leaves us with Filomena's testimony on what she found in her room. I have no reason to doubt her word, do you?
As has been established, the prosecution and the guilters conveniently ignore the parts of Filomena's that don't suit them, which indicate that glass was mixed through her possessions and was under them, and focus solely on the bit where she said glass was on top of her possessions.
You sure you want to go down this road? Because i'm becoming increasingly convinced that you are modelling your argument less and less on the facts of the case and more and more on the outcome you desire.
All I can do is restate that the understanding each of the two of us has about what constitutes a reasonable basis for forming a belief is greatly dissimilar.
The evidence is inconsistent with someone climbing through the window precisely because evidence that should be there if someone climbed through the window is not there. Your claim that this 'missing' evidence doesn't prove anything either way just doesn't wash.
You sure you want to go down this road? Because if absence of evidence is evidence of absence, then Amanda and Raffaele weren't in the murder room.
However I've never been persuaded by prosecution claims that certain evidence must have been in certain places if Rudy climbed in through the window. They don't know exactly how he did so, so that claim doesn't wash. Plus this is yet another prosecution claim with no hard evidence to back it up, so it comes down to "Trust us, we're experts, if we say we didn't find any evidence, then that is proof beyond reasonable doubt the break-in was faked".
These people's expertise, and indeed impartiality, is not exactly established.
I want to make a correction to what I wrote in post #4680. RS's lawyer did state that he said he watched Naruto the night of the crime. She made this announcement about a year after the murder. It took him a whole year to remember this?
If Meredith died around midnight it's not exactly relevant.
Amanda (as far as I can tell) never mentioned anything about Naruto or watching Japanese animation in any of her statements. How come she wasn't asked about this during her trial testimony?
If Meredith died around midnight it's not exactly relevant.
RS had a computer expert on his defense team, why wasn't any of this brought up at the trial?
We know his defence were incompetent.
Look, I've talked about this repeatedly but I guess I have to talk about it again. It is a
fundamental logical error to think that this kind of armchair speculation about social processes should trump hard fact.
Raffaele opened that Naruto file at 21:26. The computer records say so. The defence got this information from a copy of Raffaele's hard drive provided to them by the police, so there is absolutely no possibility that this evidence is fabricated by the defence or the defendants. That is a cold, hard fact and it is not up for dispute.
Saying "Because they did not bring it up at the trial then it must be false! Because Amanda did not mention it then it must be false! Because Raffaele did not mention it then it must be false!" is deeply irrational. The computer records are impartial and precise. It is only rational to challenge them if something equally hard and fast contradicts them.
It's natural for the untrained mind with its monkey instincts to want to fix conclusions based on guesses about social processes. A hundred thousand years ago on the plains of Africa this was the best investigative tool we had to figure out who murdered someone. We didn't have science back then. However standing on the shoulders of two thousand years of philosophical and scientific giants we now have much, much better investigative tools and we need to overcome our monkey instincts to use them properly. If the hard evidence says Raffaele opened a Naruto file at 21:26, then you need to immediately chuck out all of your guesswork based on social processes that says different.
If the hard evidence says that Amanda and Raffaele were at home when Meredith was attacked around 21:00, you need to chuck out all of your guesswork based on your estimation of their personal character and admit that they could not possibly have done it, no matter how guilty they seem to your instincts.
Seriously, try it some time.