Hmmm, found them. I certainly do not claim to be a hand-writing expert, and acknowledge that people's hand-writing might change a bit over time. I also believe that "graphology" in terms of reading personalities is pretty much pseudo science, but there is certainly a legitimate science of handwriting analysis in forensics. In my lay opinion, these hand writing samples of Rudy look like they were written by entirely different people, there is no resemblance between the samples at all.
Sigh, I am still a noobie and unable to post links.
sample #1: While writing his diary in Koblenz prison (Germany), Rudy wrote with very little vertical slant in his cursive handwriting, and the overall text ramped off to the right of the page. Indeed quite a few of the characters were slanted to the left even. The ramping off, could have been due the the pages not being lined.
[Reference: PMF prison diary or in slightly higher resolution from Candace Dempsey's True Crime Blog, see the links on the right of the page.]
sample #2: Yet while writing his "rebuttal" of Mario Alessi from Viterbo prison (Italy), his handwriting was very intensely and consistently slanted to the right, and has a much more "proper" style to it.
[Reference: do a google search for these words: "Guede, la lettera a News Mediaset". I recommend saving the JPG file and then opening it and zooming it to view the]
Maybe prison does that to you, but I can't see any resemblance between the writing styles shown in samples #1 and #2.
To be more conclusive, another data point would be useful. Does anyone else know of any other writing samples of Rudy? What would be also interesting of course, is a hand-writing sample of Mignini.
Just a thought, and it all stems from Guede not wanting to read "his own letter" in court.
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