I have no clue if they will win the appeal's trial. However, everyone here needs to know that if a knife is stuck in someone's neck, then there is either blood-DNA left on the knife, or the knife is cleaned completely.
Those who claim that THIS knife is the murder weapon need to explain to an FBI DNA expert why non-blood DNA is what remains? Until one can do that, they cannot claim that this is the murder weapon.
They also have to explain why there is no forensic evidence of Knox in that room, as even the convicting judge, Judge Massei, conceded. And, no, the knife does not count, because that is in contention.... the reasoning would be very circular.
The baffling thing to guilt-proponents is that there is NO forensic profile of Amanda Knox in the room, apart from the knife which was not in the room to begin with. People like John Douglas simply laugh at the suggestion.... that is not the way crime works, he says. It doesn't become true just because someone alleges it.
Do you have a cite for this conclusion?
Because I seem to recall that 10 picograms and maybe 0 picograms of a "material" that tested negative for blood and negative as a human substance is not able to be tested for DNA identification purposes unless and even this is doubtful... special precautions, equipment, handling, and even a whole separate building are used on this extremely LCN/LTN "sample".
The DNA expert is saying that if bleach was used it would have destroyed all DNA material. Since he set up the FBI labs it is also notable then that the FBI still (in 2013) refuses to use LCN/LTN traces as evidence against anyone.
The reasons are obvious. Severe risk of misreading contamination (this is what Stefanoni did), No acceptable standardized testing procedures, equipment or kits have been manufactured and certified that can produce repeatable and reliable results.
One must accept the flawed non standard one off test result produced by Stefanoni who in her own notes writes "Too Low" at least 5 times...and that she continues with this one sample but not other Too Low samples makes the result highly suspect...in fact scientifically, it is invalid simply because it is non-repeatable. The fact that no one can look at the EDF'S to ascertain if controls were run on this sample moves it far beyond a reasonable result and into an area that has to be corruption based. Or else you must believe in fairies...who wash with bleach but leave a tiny amount of DNA and also huge starch particles.
This of course is absurd....just as is luminol footprints from blood but diluted to the perfect level so as to not be revealed by TMB. I was a Histo Technologist at AFIP in Washington DC for 4 years...we worked with blood and tissue and stains everyday...in fact AFIP wrote the book on tissue processing and staining...the diluted blood thing is a diversion like so many other irregularities in this case...missing interrogation tapes, burned up hard drives, misdiagnosed HIV tests, confessions in a language not spoken by the defendant, extreme efforts to control the media in every form, sub-cases against lawyers, families, newspapers, bloggers, book authors...and the thing is no one seems to be calling bullcraps on all this unusual activity.
Its as if stupid can find 3 people to swear to it and then a judge stamps it good and all retreat for the long lunch. This case needs experts to call BS when they see it. As in the DNA evidence against AK and RS. As in illegal interrogations, as in false confessions, as in striking a suspect...to help them remember of course...stupid transparent liars...and no one calls BS. No wonder Italians run when they see the police. No wonder the honest judges are quitting in disgust. The corrupt ones have full control and nothing in place to impede them in the least. No checks, no balances.
That's why Italy has the highest number of violations by it courts in the chart Kaosium linked the other day.
