What I've highlighted are merely prosecution accusations, except for the one ('didn't hesitate') so ludicrous (53 hours with police in 89 hours--the statements coming at the end of it) not even a corrupt prosecution could contend, and might have simply been a poor choice of words or a misunderstanding about the details of the case. At any rate they are not facts. What I bolded is what actually happened, and I don't know if that implies a progression in your thinking on this matter for sure, but are you interested in discussing it?
If your point is that no one was
insane to think Amanda guilty because of what they heard about her signing those statements and wrote that note, I'd have to agree. However I'd have to say that someone who read those statements and note and understood the context of what caused them to be written and still believed the prosecution and police regarding her 'knowingly accusing an innocent man' displays a narrowness of mind or understanding that suggests it could only be the result of motivated cognition or simply being pig-ignorant.
Here's the
statements she signed, and the
note she wrote later on the 6th. If you haven't read through them recently, or
ever for that matter, perhaps it would be helpful to do so now. Then read
this and note where the link comes from, that's a
law enforcement link with collected information to help
police officers, it's
not simply something from some criminal defense institution with an agenda to cast doubt on confessions.
I don't want you to read that simply as evidence that the statements were coerced, as I understand it that isn't an issue with you, but to understand the
nature of coerced confessions, and how you're simply mistaken in the
belief that police 'brainwashing' subjects is somehow 'woo-soaked.' Incidentally, as that link is older, you'll see the concept of an internalized false confession referred to as a 'hypothesis,' however that's not what the evidence suggests actually happened to Amanda Knox. What occurred was more the
basis of an internalized false confession, false memory syndrome, and using that term in Amanda's case is simply shorthand in my view.
I certainly understand if you believe that under pressure Amanda accused Patrick Lumumba of the murder, and as a result it caused you to be suspicious of her, and that
innocentisti peddling stories of 'brainwashing' sounds initially like rather a pathetic rationalization of her behavior--especially if you are unfamiliar with false memory syndrome--which you'll note that link not only cannot deny, it ridicules the idea it
can be denied. However the reason I think this important is that going over this in detail for the first time was what caused me to realize that not only were Raffaele and Amanda not guilty, they were highly likely to be totally innocent. In part that's because the story of the police and prosecution on the interrogation and the arrests of Patrick, Amanda and Raffaele is
so revealing as to their incompetence and corruption. Do you even know what it is? What Ficarra, Zugarini, Napoleoni, and Domino testified to regarding the interrogation? The conflicting accounts Mignini has given as to his presence and why the interrogation wasn't taped?
What Amanda and Raffaele have to explain about that night in the
Questura is complicated and to some perhaps even highly unlikely, what the police and prosecution contend is
utterly ridiculous and provably untrue. That's why you won't see what (in totality) the police and prosecution testified to defended in any of the 70k or so posts about the case on JREF from anyone who knows anything about it--
especially the ones who think her guilty.
One other thing you may wish to take into consideration is things like Amanda accusing a black man to save herself, and that she was 'cold' after the murder were disseminated for the purpose of suggesting to people like yourself that she was guilty of murder, they do not stand scrutiny and the latter one was even disproven by testimony from police and neutral sources in court. It was simply a smear, it is not uncommon elsewhere but is especially prevalent in Italy in high profile cases due to the lack of sequestered juries and the complicity of the Italian press which is easily cowed with
calunnia and
diffamazione charges and suits.
