Yup, the grand conspiracy again. Things don't hang together without it.
No 'conspiracy' is needed to determine whether the evidence proves Raffaele and Amanda were involved in the murder beyond a reasonable doubt. That ought to be the first step, go through it and see if it stands scrutiny. If you find that it doesn't, or that the arguments against it are
so damning you have to wonder how that is even possible, and no one believing in guilt can offer a rational argument in rebuttal, that perhaps is time to wonder how it could have happened.
Here's a big clue, it's something I
didn't even believe the first
and second times I went through it. Now, here's the
video so you can see Giobbi say it himself.
There's Amanda's picture tacked up on the wall next to infamous convicted criminals, in February of '08 before she'd
even been charged. They didn't frame them, they 'knew' she was guilty due to her 'behavior.' As the article notes, Giobbi would go on to testify the three indications that convinced him of her guilt were that she'd wiggled her hips when she put on her booties, she broke down crying unexpectedly, and she went out eating pizza with Raffaele a few days after the murder when Giobbi was of the opinion that she ought to be in bed crying her eyes out and if she wasn't that was an indication of her guilt in the matter, a soulless hip-wiggling demoness!
However Mignini has to put together a case that will stand up in court, so being as they
don't actually have any evidence Raffaele and Amanda were involved, everything they did find has to be twisted to implicate Raffaele and Amanda somehow in the murder. When they find the shoeprints don't actually match, they rush right out to the crime scene again and 'find' the bra clasp and luminol the floor and decide the (otherwise invisible) footprints that tested negative for blood with TMB and DNA could be introduced in court as 'bloody footprints' anyway, so at this point it does get a little fishy, but that's not how it started.
Giobbi, the SCO officer from Rome who was in charge of the investigation from the control room doesn't go in there and lie about the interrogation like the
Squadra Mobile officers (Napoleoni, Ficarra and Zugarini) did, he admits he gave the order to bring them both in, that they wanted to 'study their behavior together' and that he heard Amanda scream. There's no cupcakes and tea in
his version of the interrogation, it's all perfectly justified as he's already determined their 'guilt' from Amanda's 'behavior.'
Where the rubber hits the road though, the press and the court has to be convinced of their guilt, so they're defamed with anything the police can find, true or untrue, verified or not, because that
works in places without sequestered juries and that's one reason other places have them. Mignini, who like Giobbi is already convinced of Amanda's guilt for stupid-ass reasons and his kooky theory gets together with his team and they find ways to make the most innocuous things sound like indications of guilt. They all
'know' she and Raffaele are guilty, they just have to 'find' the evidence, and if they can't find enough maybe they can cheat a little here and there, it's all justified for the greater good!
Here's the thing though, what if they were
wrong? Is this how you'd like your police in Melbourne to be operating? Making determinations of guilt off of indications like this, excusing ridiculous theories like the ones Mignini came up with, producing evidence that doesn't stand scrutiny because it was developed with only one goal in mind, trying to 'prove' Amanda and Raffaele were involved in the murder? Or would you rather they looked at the evidence, developed rational theories as to who committed the crime, and if they
had arrested people off the results obtained from what was done to the foreign exchange student in the middle of the night based on strange hunches and bizarre theories, to release the college students and just prosecute the burglar who matches the evidence and which makes so much more sense that fitting him into the bizarre theory based on 'behavioral analysis' methods that would be laughed at by anyone with a passing interest in the study of human behavior?
That's why they had to lie and cheat, not to frame them, but to justify their arrest off of grounds like this and to make everyone forget they made a mistake with Patrick. Why take the blame for the 'lies' of the irresistible vixen who 'fooled' them into making huge mistake? With virtually no oversight or punishment possible, what's to make them fess up or prevent them from going beyond the bounds of propriety in the interests of the 'greater good?' That also happens to save them from having to admit a mistake and that their salacious theory that made the worldwide news was really a damned idiotic and perverse way to 'investigate' a crime?
They never stopped and considered the fact they might be innocent, that's how they got into this mess, and I'm guessing you might have made the same mistake. Sometimes it looks like you might think the cops being incompetent and corrupt must be an indication of Raffaele and Amanda's guilt! Anyone who says they are must be lying or 'spinning' on their behalf, thus can't be believed because no matter how much evidence they produce to back their contentions no police force and court could actually be that corrupt! I actually sympathize with that point of view because the same thing occurred to me, however try it this way once:
If Raffaele and Amanda are innocent, what could have possibly have happened to get them convicted in the trial of the first instance? Think of it as trying to reconstruct a bizarre historical event. Or you can just sit it out and wait for the verdict, it won't be long now. However you're not going to find anyone making a rational case for guilt because it
can't be done. That's why no debate can be allowed on any of the guilt sites, five JRERs from this thread would make them look like nasty, irrational fools against the whole house. There's standing invitations from Bruce Fisher, Phantom Wolf and Komponisto to debate one on one, none of them will take them up on it.
Maybe it's time to consider that Raffaele and Amanda might actually be innocent, and the conspiracy theories, excuses whining about meanies and outright disinformation on the guilt sites are a product of that.
