It might survive the Supreme Court though, for much the same reasons. And as this was the second go through of that case too, any appeal to that level can only be on a point of law, I believe.
Yes, I was thinking it might have been a local decision, one that the resident jurors of Perugia thought 'fair' even if it wasn't entirely legal, and would be overturned. Hellmann goes back up north, he doesn't live there, the jurors might not want to make that kind of damning decision for their community--being a tourist destination--but if
Rome makes the call....
The point of law would probably be something about that trial ever being incorporated into the murder trial, especially with the statements declared inadmissible by the Supreme Court as evidence against Amanda.
Amanda may have to accept that she was screwed over on that particular point.
Perhaps, it's kind of a harsh screw-job though, as it decreases by about 75% the money she should receive from the Italian government as a result of being wrongly incarcerated for four years. It also takes the money she got from her diary being leaked and published causing her sexual history to be be leaked to the tabloids providing 'evidence' (even if grossly misrepresented) of her being a 'slut' and being defamed as such over a good portion of the world to be given to Patrick, who was one of them doing it, most recently as of late reviving the 'witchgirl' mythology.
All because she signed a 'witness' statement saying she vaguely or confusedly remembered something? If I 'vaguely' thought you were involved in a murder, and put it that way because I wasn't sure, should I get three years in prison if it turns out that isn't true? I wonder how crowded the prisons would be anywhere if all of a sudden three year convictions came automatically from mistaken witness accounts?
Also, the resolution of that
calunnia charge might impact the other, more serious one, the one going through the courts still. That could net her six more years in prison, which would not be considered 'time served' anymore. She could of course decline to return to Italy, be convicted
in absentia and forgo ever in her life traveling to the EU, but considering she's spent all that time
learning those languages of hers, it would seem she'd like to someday go to the countries where they speak them.
Even tonight, when looking at a newspaper spread, one BBC reporter remarked that there was nothing about Raffaele Sollecito, he seemed to be the forgotten victim. At that, his co-presenter chimed in to say that of course the really forgotten victim was Meredith Kercher - and the camera promptly zoomed in on a sizeable article about the Kerchers on the right of the page. The co-presenter then started praising their "restraint and dignity".
I wonder if that guy reads PMF?
Rolfe.
No, they read Maresca, those are his lines. Incidentally, Raffaele Sollecito gets 675k or so hits on Google, one tenth that of Amanda and Meredith, so I'd say you were right and something I've kind of been subtly satirizing for months, how little interest poor Raffaele ever received. I'm
trying to remember the scene of his celebrating with his family, all I can remember is a hunched over Amanda, the judge all of a sudden talking really fast, and her family gathered around her. I have a mental image of a happy Raffaele, but I'm not sure I saw it today!
