Machiavelli
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Does it also make Romanelli and Laura equally considered suspects and equally as potentially implicated?
I awaited this objection. No it doesn't make them suspect. Because Filomena and Laura actually do have an alibi, not contradicted by anything, and there is no circumstantial evidence against them.
If there was something against them, that element would become actual.
I am happy to see you have issues about something in the prosecution's case. When you can be critical of evidence presented by "your side," it gives you credibility, IMO. Before anyone gets their panties in a wad claiming I am stating Machiavelli is credible, I mean this in a general sense, for either side of any argument.
You make me come to my mind you made some other question the other day, which I left unanswered. I don't remember what.
Another thing I think I need to explain, this too has to do with the legal system. We don't call that "the prosecution's case". The case is something which "belongs" to the judge rather than to the prosecution (now it could be regarded maybe as Massei's case). But I mean there is also something practical in this: the prosecution does not have a right to "chose" their witnesses. I mean if there is a witness saying he has relevant information, let's say about a suspect's alibi, it is not a prosecution's choice to make him testify: the prosecution is obligated to bring his testimony. The question whether the witness will be assessed as less than 100% reliable or unreliable in the end, it's quite secondary to the "prosecution's case" (or "the judge's case"), because the testimony must be assessed by the judge anyway.
Here the prosecution objected some things but in the end they thought Curatolo was reliable (or could be reliable) and it happened that Massei's court agreed. The appeal court failed to provide a legitimate argument to dispute his credibility (they brought as a ground his alleged mental deterioration, while there was no evidence of such).
There will never be a definitive answer about how much we could be sure about Curatolo identifying the two suspects. It's impossible to tell that. But we have his testimony. The element exists. It's for everyone to see. Everyone can make up their own mind.