I absolutely agree. All the evidence supports this version of events. What's more, the evidence tends to firmly contradict the prosecution version of events - that the police were casually inquiring about Lumumba when Knox suddenly blurted out "He did it! He's a nasty man!".
Just to recap, I consider there to be several crucial pieces of evidence pointing at coercion. Firstly, there's the fact that the police immediately took Knox's "see you later" text as an indication that Knox and Lumumba were fixing up a meeting for later that same evening. Second, there's the evidence of interpreter Donnino, in which she made explicit reference to coaching Knox to "remember" the traumatic memory of Lumumba murdering Meredith. Thirdly, there's the infamous De Felice statement.
And these are hard, incontrovertible pieces of evidence. They all point in only one way: that Knox was coerced into "confirming" a version of events that the police/PM already thought they "knew". When you add into that Knox's version of events (which, granted, one could consider potentially biased) and Knox's subsequent written and verbal communications (all of which clearly tend to support a coercion scenario), I believe that any reasonable person would have to draw the conclusion that Knox was indeed improperly coerced that night in then Perugia police HQ.
That highlighted part was the reason why I clung to holding Knox liable for calunnia for so long. I had thought Hellmann had unlocked the secret as to Knox would inexplicably, suddenly, and spontaneously "name" Lumumba as the perp. I, back them, was the only person in the universe who thought Hellmann got the Goldilocks verdict - not too hot, not too cold, but just right.
Then Someone mentioned I should read CNN's Drew Griffin's interview with Mignini.... the term "paradigm shift" is the one describing what happened next.
Mignini is a lying liar, and continues so to do through his minions (fewer and fewer these days as Mignini gets relegated to the bleachers... although we see occasional displays of pro-Mignini posting here in this very forum.)
So where is this case after Crini has given his own prosecutorial "theory of the crime" to the Florence Court? Well, (unless I'm missing something) Crini is doing his best trying to make a silk purse from a sow's ear.
Crini is being true to this "osmotic" standard... although it could not be any more stark the flaw in that, when someone has to actually argue it in court. The ISC seems to have substituted this "osmotic" standard for what other folks call, "a comprehensive theory of the crime which explains the evidence."
Could the word "osmotic" now be an Italian euphemism for, "we have no integrated theory of this crime which explains all the evidence, and is based on that evidence, but it sure would be embarrassing to acquit these two 5 years after the fact....."? I think so.
Key to a comprehensive theory of the crime is T.O.D. Note what Crini has done, as explained here upthread and in other places. He's told the court there are two possible times of death - either late, so that Curatolo and Nara can be squeezed into this, or early so that Rudy's initial accounts and the science can be squeezed into this. What's missing is any actual science which gives aid to the court in establishing T.O.D...... in both an "osmotic" world, as well as a "comprehensive theory of the crime" world, time of death is key. True, some homicides have to be solved differently when this sort of science is missing.... but...
... consider this. The only mistake Mr. Mignini actually admits to, is not allowing the medical examiner on the scene to take the body temperature. Mignini's reasoning was that he did not want to disturb "the crime scene".
This leads to two further observations. One is that Mignini was de facto admitting back then, that the "crime scene" was, in fact, Meredith's room, the only place in the cottage where the scientific details of the murder were left forensically intact - the murderer, be it one or three, gave forensic investigators the good fortune of preserving the scene behind a locked door.
And if the crime scene was in Meredith's room, then Mignini was de facto admitting that the condition of the cottage outside of Meredith's room was forensically worthless. Why not - the postal police had given Knox and Romaneli free rein through the upper floor of the cottage (sans Meredith's room). Romaneli obviously interfered with her own room, the second most important room in this "scene" when she "rummaged" through it, took her laptop of of it (even when behind police tape), and perhaps even some marijuana (which would have been a more powerful motivator to croos a police line than a laptop!)....
But consider this.... Crini perhaps knows, now - in 2013 in Florence - that this crime was not judged as guilty against Knox and Sollecito because of anything found in Meredith's room....
... the basis of Massei's judgement against the pair was mainly the overwhelming evidence that Knox had once been out in the hall, in the bathroom, maybe once in Filomena's room.... namely, that she lived there.
All coming into play because of Mignini's own admission that not taking body temperature now, in 2013, to a seasoned prosecutor like Crini now puts T.O.D. on a sliding scale, where sliding scales tend to promote "not guilty" verdicts.
There are now two "osmotic" scenarios that the prosecution is putting forth. And the scenarios have to remain "osmotic" because the evidence, itself, says many things; some things which give an alibi to AK and RS and some which.... well, I was going to say "don't give an alibi," but I'm not sure that accurately describes it. But this latter point on the sliding T.O.D. Crini has settled upon leaves room for another activity which has plagued this....
... the demand that AK and RS now prove they weren't part of it.
This is a fair rendering of where this case is, in its third trial, the first being prosecuted by someone other than Mignini-Comodi. Comodi is under investigation for the misuse of Italian taxpayer's money, Mignini's own abuse of office charge is back in play, Napoleoni and her women-thugs have been investigated for misuse of police resources on a private matter....
.... Mignini, who us innocenters seem to want to vilify to exclusion of the others, is up in the bleachers with two, lone internet-types left defending him...
And Crini's case is almost closed, with just his take on the RIS Carabinieri's take of the knife DNA to come. And Crini is trying to march to the ISC's beat established last March, and so far everything has gone the defence's way - and where's the evaluation of multiple attackers? Is that now assumed with no "evidence", just an "osmotic" evaluation of it? Is Crini afraid that opening that up, too, will be like Channel 5 taking that kid to the cottage for the world to see that the break-in through Filomena's window is eminently doable? I bet Crini will not be playing THAT in court!?!!?!!
Even though it's not before the Nencini court, all of a sudden the calunnia against Lumumba is going through another paradigm shift. It may take the ECHR to sort it out, there's also still possibility that the ISC in total can undo what a former session of it's own body did... remote, but possible.
Here it is, six years later, and the Italian judiciary is perfecting the art of the "knock on", a term taken from rugby. All through it AK and RS have been ruined financially and the Kerchers have been ruined emotionally; which is not to exclude either from being ruined the other way, either.
All because Mignini didn't allow a medical examiner to take body temperature. You certainly wouldn't want to solve this case using evidence, would you?
