I'm at 100% Acquittal vote if I was a temp-Judge.
but as a person who believes..the system can become ill..its 50/50.
Signs of Illness of the System-
a) ignore their own independent experts,
b)allowing the circus animals inside the courtroom
c) Edgardo Giobbi placing the pictures on his wall before the trail starts
d) Stefanoni allowed to keep her job
e) Monica, and the interrogation recording not investigated
d) Commodi threatens to sue , during a court room defense
e) Leaks allowed, even the reporters laugh at how much is leaked
f) the press allowed to stay in the room during Marescas exploitation of the victims bloody nude body
Maybe the Rat Machine and the Team of Rat inside the ill system...
maybe one rat told another rat that "the rat fix is in", and Hellman is part of the Dark Side too? Would you be surprised, really?
I won't be surprised if the system is ill from the rat germs. Who would be surprised after watching this trial for 4 yrs?
I think all of this makes sense. There is one thing, however, that keeps "knawing" at my brain, making me think that the judge/jury is bound to acquit.
Given all that you stated above, if Hellmann has, on live TV, a confirmation of the convictions, he has just publicly endorsed, to a worldwide audience, all of the points you have listed, and then some. And he has ignored the massive amounts of doubt in the case presented against a young man and woman, and will be sending them back to jail. So a guilty verdict is not ony an endorsement of these ideas as OK, it is also giving a great big public finger to the people who have raised these issues as blatently unfair to the defendants.
Although that would probably go over fine for most in Italy, Hellmann has to know that the Knox family and her other supporters are not going away, and are going to get even louder and more persistant, and work to enlist the help of ever higher authorities in the US and elsewhere. At this point, the lack of evidence in this case has come to the attention of a lot more people than before, and it is not going to be possible to cover it up.
I am not making the point that Hellmann, Zenetti, and the jurors are going to base their decision on politics. What I am saying is that they must be aware that this decision will be scrutinized world wide, and if they confirm those convictions, they better be damned sure they are willing to live with the consequences.
If Knox and Sollecito are ultimately acquitted, the basic opinion around the world will be that, with all it's problems, the Italian system ultimately gave these defendants a fair trial, and reached a rational outcome. Even those who think they are guilty will believe that the system is not at fault. But if, after the points you mentioned have been exposed to the light as they have, they still convict Amanda and Raffaele, these glaring issues are going to be exposed to scrutiny in a very unwelcome way, and that will not reflect well on the Italian judiciary. This has happened some already, but having convicted Amanda when she still has an appeal pending is one thing, but having her in jail for 26-life based on this bizarre grandstanding, and after the DNA evidence has been thoroughly shredded by the court's own experts, will likely be seen as a political/dislike of Americans decision. If they think there is a rabid group of pro-Knox people now, just wait. And later, there might be some
real money behind this, if more important people get interested.
Some will read this as threatening, and if they do, they are missing the point entirely. I am just theorizing on some facts here. If Hellmann and jury want to stand up before the world and publicly say all this stuff is OK with them, they can do that. But there is a light being shined on them right now, and they can either have it turned down or off, or they can have it turned way up. All systems have problems, but when they are brought to light, people have to stand up and say if those problems are acceptable, or if they need to change. This is one of those times.
