First I'm not sure you and others here are using 'factoid' correctly or in the same way.
A factoid is a questionable or spurious (unverified, false, or fabricated) statement presented as a fact, but without supporting evidence.
an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print.
Usage Problem A brief, somewhat interesting fact.
Most burglaries have police and victims entering the room and looking around. The idea that you have put forward repeatedly, that all evidence in Filomena's room is worthless, is in itself worthless and a factoid.
You may have me on that one. If the term that bothers you is "factoid forensics" esp. what was eventually found in Filomena's room, you are perhaps correct. Please at least give me points for not relating this in Latin!
Perhaps then it is better to say that anyone who draws ANY conclusions from the forensics in the cottage is completely neglecting that the whole thing upstairs was compromised. From Knox's shower when she was alone, to the postal police (quite rightly given the context) allowing everyone to tramp around including themselves, to four people in Filomena's room at one point, including two of them for 15 minutes....
Here's another term you can parse, Grinder....
It begs the question as to what counts as forensics in Italy? They did not take control DNA samples from Laura or Filomena, yet the basis of the quashing of acquittals is that there was multiple attackers, and they had no means of eliminating unknown DNA as belonging to the other housemates.
"Factoid forensics" is probably a stretch, but how much of this stuff do we have to hear before everything learned about the upper floor is worthless? From the Scientific Police's own video which shows their collection methods (!!!!) which led to laughter....
.... to Stephanonie herself admitting she did not double test things - mainly because of its small sample size, a problem the RIS Carabinieri indirectly addressed to the Nencini court...
I mean what does it take?
Hmmmm, I'm contrary and don't consider much as credible but you are the one that is pretending not to believe Filomena's alibi. Raf was and may still be a confused, spaced out dude. He confused the days with Mansey (who is a FB friend with Antioco Fois and that's no factoid but a fact) and claims himself that he was confused with the cops and asked for a calendar when asked about the happenings of 4 days before.
I doubt that Marco would have had the same issue.
If you noted that the suggestion that Filomena was involved in this is absurd then I am not as bad a communicator as you suggest... geez, I didn't use Latin, so perhaps that's why you "got it"! Raf, at the time, WAS a spaced-out-dude, and why the interrogators against him believed ANYTHING he said about Oct 30, Oct 31, or Nov 1 is beyond me... heck, if you read his book, it's even beyond him!
Yet the police used Raf's confusion over dates without allowing him even the attempt to clear it up, to rush in and take Amanda into her own interrogation room (note: his timeline). They then used Amanda's confusions to rush out and arrest Lumumba. Case closed.
Then because they'd built a case on confusion, they had to release Luimumba, and if, as you pointed out upthread, they'd had the trial within 6 months then there'd have been no Quintavalle, no Nara, and no Curatolo.
The real equivalency between Knox and Romanelli is that there was no case. It's not really a matter that the PLE was somehow "justified" in suspecting Knox over Romanelli... and yes, they probably would have let Filomena go in that alternate universe...
... but would they have? Marco would have been more sober, but if the argument was Marco's Y-Haplotype on Meredith's clasp; then they would have had more reason to think of Filomena/Marco as cunning murders a little more advanced in years... and Filomena could have possibly used her law-experience to pull the wool over the eyes of seasoned investigators, more so than Amanda.
Then we'd have Machiavelli arguing that it was Fiolmena who could choose not to sleep, and thus be refreshed to accomplish this deception.... at least that alternate universe would not need to have a perp who was at one time a doped-out newbie, and yet at another a world-class DNA scrubber....
