I too have recently dared venturing over to the Perugian Murderer's Friends website for a peek.
Here's a great post over there by this WantsJustice i****.
I've got my replies to some of it between the italics since I'm not allowed to post there with any alias unless under armed guard.
I'm sorry that I misstated the knife and the Massei conclusion about premeditation. But, whether we like it or not, the knife and bra clasp were considered important pieces of evidence by the Massei court. Massei devoted 13 pages to these the knife and bra clasp (264 to 277). There is certainly other evidence, but these two pieces were not insignificant. If they are thrown out, it will hurt the prosecution's case. The question is how much.
The reason I tend to think the appeals court may exclude the bra clasp and the knife is that it appointed Drs. Conti and Vecchioti, so obviously, the court respects their judgment. My experience in the U.S. is that courts tend to rely on court appointed experts in scientific matters like this.
I understand the frustration, but there is no point of an appeals process if the court is simply going to rubber stamp the first court.
In someways it may not be a bad thing to exclude the knife and bra clasp. There is enough evidence without them and exclusion would take away a major talking point for the Knox PR machine. If the court ignores Drs. Conti and Vecchioti, then it will be accused of railroading Knox and Sollecito. But if the court excludes the evidence and finds that their is still overwhelming evidence of guilt, it may cause some fair minded people in the media to pause and relook at the case. .
Regardless, I would like the court to make the following declarations, at the beginning of their report:
1. The break-in was obviously staged and the defense has never presented any evidence to refute this.
The photos of the large pieces of glass placed on the window ledge to enter the room, footprint on the top sill of the window beneath Filomena's, and the one of the guy able to easily climb through the window disprove this.
It's a blatant breakin.
2. Meredith was killed at 22:30, making it unlikely that she returned home shortly after 9:00 and interrupted a burglary in process.
The food in the duodenum shows up another crackpot Mignini theory. The TOD is just adjusted to accomodate Raff's non-logged computer usage.
She was killed earlier that's it. The prosecution stuffed up the time to fit their personal agenda. Just ask Rudy, he says 9:20-9:30, and you know he's defintely not lying. He knows what he's talikng about and he's right.
3. The "false confession' was excluded by the first court and played no part in Knox's conviction (it's a pet peeve of mine that this is rarely mentioned). However, Knox has never explained why she didn't insist that her lawyers contact the prosecution to exonerate Mr. Lumumba.
All false confessions remain negated until the cops cough up the interrogation tape they're too scared to show.
Because it exposes their guilty natures in relation to the 'interview'
4. The appeals court carefully considered Dr. Vinci's report, but finds it obvious that the footprint on the bathmat matches Sollecito's foot (not Guede's) and the bloody shoe print in Meredith's room obviously belongs to a woman with Knox's shoe size.
They don't seem interested in rehashing Rudy's blob. It's indistinguishable outside the obvious fact that by reading the events through external data it's Rudy's without a doubt.
5. The DNA found in the hallway and Fiona's room belongs to Knox and Meredith. Further,if DNA is so omnipresent in a person's residence, why didn't the police find Fiona's and Laura's DNA in these places?
I can't really be bothered with footprints in people's own hallways. But I could point out that Meredith and Amanda lived together in a different wing of the cottage to the other two.
6. The luminol test was performed weeks after the crime, making it unlikely that the substance was bleach, juice or horseradish.
Outisde Steff's lying to the court about the tests for blood, nothing has ever been shown to the court.
6. Sollecito called the police after the postal police arrived. There is video camera evidence to support the postal police's version of events.
This is sheer rubbish and the opposite has been proven to the court to be true. As everyone here's known for ages.
7. Statements given by Knox and Sollecito were evasive and deceptive.
Every court in the world evaluates the veracity of the defendants when determining guilt or innocence.
High pressure situation (conducted by morons) young people get nervous, big deal, so what.
8. Finally, it is nice when the prosecution can provide a motive in crimes like this, but the court cannot ignore substantial evidence simply because no one can make sense of such a senseless crime.
Yeah, it's nice when they come up with something that doesn't make you p*** yourself with laughter.
The female student flatmate leading the burglar and rich student kid, who don't know each other in a sex attack ??????????
How do grown up people believe these things ?
Try Rudy the burglar broke in and killed Meredith at 9:20. Raff and Amanda were nervy murder discoverers with some slight inkling of what had gone on, and the cops told silly stories to the press upon their incorrect capture, then framed them.
Goes to show you what's being posted on the dark side.
No wonder they're not about to lose, but to be crushingly destroyed.
