Apparently some over there - the three year law student in particular - think that because I add up Rudi's evidence, I miss the need to add up Amanda's evidence. The problem with the theory is that Amanda's and Raf's so-called evidence is either only compatible with them (footprints) or unremarkable in where it was found. Amanda's DNA in her bathroom for example has no probative value, even if mixed with Meredith's blood, when the swab was dragged along the sink. Perhaps Anglo can chime in about what law school does to the ability to discern.
Since the ICSI didn't swab the areas next to the footprints, it is not known if Amanda's DNA was there as well as in the undated footprints that tested negative for blood. The nature of Luminol discovered blood is that it could have been there for years like the dinosaur examples the PGP so loved.
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I'm guessing that their lawyer is more likely to work traffic court than criminal court. No defense lawyer worth anything wouldn't miss seeing that the ILE blew it. They didn't convict her beyond a reasonable for sure, even with the lame defense work done in the first trial.
ETA - Mary you will be happy to know that our 3YLS (three year law student) is now using the blog comment by JOH as proof that Amanda was involved in the famous rape prank in Seattle. You may wish to dig into this as most likely she must have been knocked off if she hasn't come forward yet.
The first sentence above shows the tendency to counter PIP arguments with the same style of PGP argumentation. Throw out AK and you also have to throw out RG. It reminds me of what Peggy's own reaction was to the Hellmann report.... "If you throw out the forensics against AK and RS, then shouldn't they throw out the forensics against RG?"
Ah, er, no Peggy. We're talking apples and oranges on that score... and if you'd only bother to try to put together a comprehensive timeline and theory of this crime, and its investigation, you will see why. At the end of the first round of forensic recovery, ALL the forensics pointed to Rudy. With the exception of a knife found at Sollecito's... which can only be called "forensics" connected to this crime because of a striation on that knife that no one else can see, based on a piece of DNA so small that it could be tested for only one, but not both, of either what it was made of or who it belonged to.
Your three-year lawyer, Grinder, simply wants to extend this really weak piece of reasoning.... to try to line up the "evidence against" AK and RS beside the evidence against RG, and try to brow beat you into accepting that every time you cross off something against the students, some unknown logical principle requires you to to cross off something against RG; perhaps only for fairness's sake.
Fairness to whom? This is a subset of "let's protect Rudy" in my mind. There's been a lot of that these days. You should see Leila on another board being finally forced to admit that Guede actually is a nasty character. She at one point refused to call him a drug dealer.... she would only concede he was a "facilitator." I am not making that up.
Oh yes... my hope is that the three-year lawyer DID work in traffic court. Then he'd be able to tell the difference of what's what with Amanda's noise citation back in Seattle. I cannot remember who, but they said that it was proof that Amanda was a criminal prior to arriving in Perugia. However, our three year lawyer could help everyone understand that the citation she got resembled more a traffic ticket than an accusation of serial murder.
Why do these things keep popping up, sometimes years after they've been debunked!?!?!?
All accept the bleach receipts. Despite the cops themselves dropping the bleach receipts as forensically interesting in Nov 2007, another guilter claims to have a copy of them.
He should get them to Florence ASAP because they will be relevant at the new trial. However, every time the topic is brought up he claims that the PerugianLE folks have screwed with his computer.
Thank the Lord above that Machiavelli is an expert in sleep and sleep-deprivation issues. He has not been around here since making a clinical diagnosis of Amanda Knox's sleep patterns, suggesting that she'd gone into interrogation ready and fresh; to do battle with seasoned interrogators and to pull the wool over their eyes.
Machiavelli... maybe that webmaster who has a copy of the bleach receipts also has documentation showing your own bona fides as a sleep clinician. I certainly hope so. It certainly would be embarrassing if you just posted something which showed a propensity to vilify someone and not show ANY restraint whatsoever in doing it.
Personally, I think Amanda Knox is personally responsible for the rise in tooth decay in the Pacific Northwest of the USA.... I know this because the young lady who did my flouride last time at the dentist said she'd read Barbie Nadeau's book, and that "tooth decay" and being a "slut" have a clinical connection.
I did not argue. The young lady had a needle....
) which don't explain Rudi or Curatolo or the TOD or Nara but what the hell.
