I still think you are missing what I am saying. If the Indpendant Experts come back and say "We have investigated these things thoroughly, and in our expert opinion there was no contamination or foul play that we can detect, and that RS's DNA was found on the bra clip, and ML's DNA was on the knife blade and here's the evidence why," would you accept their report or not?
That it was there? In other words that DNA was definitely Meredith's on the knife and Raffaele's on the clasp? Sure.
However I'm certainly not going to allow that they are the Gods themselves and can mystically determine that it's not contamination or secondary transfer, that's just silly. They can issue a report saying they couldn't find evidence of that and therefore it should be allowed in court and the jury should decide, but it hardly precludes the possibility (in this case high probability) that it happened anyway.
As for it 'proving' Raffaele and Amanda were in that room when Meredith died or shortly thereafter, that's about the least likely way it could have gotten there. First off with the knife it wouldn't put Amanda in that room, it puts her in Raffaele's drawer. It was the police who took that knife out of Raffaele's drawer, and 'put' it in the murder room, where theoretically that 10 pg of non-blood DNA is all that's left of Amanda delivering the blow to Meredith's neck which is the only wound it could really have made.
However somehow
every last trace of blood was removed, yet it still had plenty of Amanda's DNA on the handle and Meredith's DNA on the blade? There's absolutely nothing else in the murder room they found of Amanda's to corroborate that it happened there? DNA doesn't come with a timestamp nor any GPS data, and considering the context the odds that knife was used in the murder approach absolute zero. Take a look at the link Spartacus posted about ten pages back now from that DNA scientist, the idea that if they come back 'confirming' that the DNA is legitimate that it means Amanda was in that room is ludicrous in my opinion.
As for the bra clasp, if it means Raffaele was in that room, how about the other profiles evident on the clasp, does that mean they were there too? How come there's no corroborating evidence of Raffaele there either? Boy that worked out strangely, didn't it? Rudy Guede leaves all that mess and Raffaele and Amanda leave two items--
both of which are not inherent to either the murder or the room--totaling 40 picograms? That's 4/100,000,000,000ths of a gram, which is pretty damned small to begin with.
As for why it was ever considered 'evidence' to begin with, we must turn back to our good friend, the logic of the Italian Court System. You see, they have no DNA standards, their prosecutors are incorruptible men who must determine whether evidence is actually that of murder or is something else. Other places have 500 page manuals judges must master before they allow DNA evidence, in the Italian Court System the judge trusts that the prosecutor has done due diligence, it's the inquisitorial part of the system--the 'hypothesized' search for the 'truth.'
If you're interested in whether I'm a fanatic or if my position is falsifiable, I'll say what I have for a long time: from the evidence I've seen the least likely people to have been involved in that murder that don't have ironclad alibis are Raffaele and Amanda. They tore that room apart twice looking for evidence against them and everything either has a more likely explanation, makes you wonder why they presented it, or is downright suspicious. They interrogated Amanda to the point of breakdown and got nonsensical silliness, they put them both through the ringer and imprisoned them for three and a half years and neither cracked, when they'd known each other all of two weeks until that fateful fifth of November and might be out of jail now had they turned on each other. Your SAS commandos would appreciate their loyalty!
However,
of course my position is falsifiable: Show me the tapes of that interrogation. Or show me evidence that couldn't be faked at this juncture that they did it. The police and prosecution are belting signals of corruption out to the cheap seats with the crap they introduced into court, the lies they told, and the seventeen other people they've charged for criticizing the police and prosecution. I don't think 30 pg of uncorroborated 'evidence' in the murder room and 10 pg of 'evidence' in Raffaele's drawer that could both have happened differently should completely change the equation, regardless if the experts pretend they have godlike powers.
