Continuation Part Seven: Discussion of the Amanda Knox/Raffaele Sollecito case

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What does " we'll do what we have to" mean exactly? Do you take credit for posting John Jr's work information on line by any chance? The collective attack on the family seems to be gaining momentum on this very site. Michelle you link to Steve's blog and speak for him that he "knows". This kind of harassment towards the family is counterproductive for you.

I'm sorry, I disagree with you. I think we deserve the hate to be stopped. I've never actually heard anyone in the media actually criticise the family (Kercher's), btw.

However, we've taken a lot of criticism from their family towards (mainly) Amanda. What they don't realize is that when anyone involved in this entire case is in the news and is interviewed it's all in the name of finding justice for Meredith. So actually, it IS all about Meredith.
 
The police found nothing on these two, but someone called Yummi has kindly filled in the gaps with this post just now from TJMK. I don't know how much is allowed to be imported from another forum, but here it is, simply because I find it from a completely different planet. And yes, I know Yummi is a member here under a different name.

The text you quote must qualify as one of the most pathetic explanations for motive for a awful long while. It seems complete gibberish.
 
Rudy's got the worst luck for an innocent guy. Not only did he get stabbed in the abdomen earlier on by a drug dealer, he got his fingers sliced struggling with a mysterious killer while coming out of the bathroom with his pants down. Then, the night after his secret love is killed by some other guy, Rudy goes dancing at the club and doesn't hear the DJ ask everyone to pause for a moment of silence, leaving Rudy to dance on alone in front of everyone else as they stop to remember Meredith. Then he is dragged into the case with an Italian nerd he's never even met and falsely accused by Mignini of being a bit player in the murder under the spell of a Luciferina. "Poor Rudy".
Don't forget, he bought a computer that, as luck would have it, turned out to be stolen property!
Then to top it off, the perp at the computer stealing scene and the perp at the murder scene each throw a rock through the window, making it seem like the crimes might be related! Lucky for him, the cops didn't pick up on the similarity. :p
 
I doubt very much if it's true. This is a simple, obvious crime, and the evidence tells a clear story. I don't think anyone would ever have thought there was more to it than meets the eye, if not for the fact that the cops went public with a wild accusation before they understood the basic facts of the crime scene.

Unexplained details pop up at crime scenes all the time, because the police are scrutinizing a particular location and time frame. Without a credible scenario, such details don't necessarily have any relevance.

Amen!
Throughout this case 'over-thinking it has been our worst problem. Which may not apply to those believe that 'THINKING' should not even enter the equation! Basically it is a simple case complicated by an immoral man seeking redemption. He will not receive it and he will perish with a tortured soul.
Everybody looses, which is the greatest crime of all.
 
What does " we'll do what we have to" mean exactly? Do you take credit for posting John Jr's work information on line by any chance? The collective attack on the family seems to be gaining momentum on this very site. Michelle you link to Steve's blog and speak for him that he "knows". This kind of harassment towards the family is counterproductive for you.
Briars, there is no collective attack on the Kerchers which is gaining momentum on this site. There is a great deal of sympathy for their loss and understanding of their grief. This is mixed with some frustration regarding their pursuit of a conviction of two people that most in this forum believe to be innocent of any involvement in Meredith's death. This frustration is related to their participation in the court case, not the rumored involvement of any family member in the online campaign. If you read carefully in this forum, you will see that absent any solid publicly available evidence, most posters will not draw a conclusion about Harry Rag's identity.
I'm sorry, I disagree with you. I think we deserve the hate to be stopped. I've never actually heard anyone in the media actually criticise the family (Kercher's), btw.

However, we've taken a lot of criticism from their family towards (mainly) Amanda. What they don't realize is that when anyone involved in this entire case is in the news and is interviewed it's all in the name of finding justice for Meredith. So actually, it IS all about Meredith.

I don't think anyone can argue against stopping the hate.

DalaiLama said:
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
 
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Between Stefanoni's evidence collections and Rudy's lying, it's amazing that there are any solid facts in this case.

Thats so true, and add Mignini lying about the interrogation/ budget issues, and the interrogation lies of being a tea party, Stefonani lying on the stand she didnt test for blood etc..etc..

The police lying and destroying critical evidence like the hard drives made this case what it is, a mess.
 
Nice catch Bill! I never noticed that de facto acceptance of the defense presentation which showed by correlating the CCTV video of the Carabinieri arrival with the cell phone times that the CCTV camera timestamp was indeed ~10 min slow.

Perhaps Grinder gave too much weight to the translation of 'according to' thinking that Massei was just representing the defense argument in that passage? The context makes it clear that's not the case, he's saying what his court holds and the reason why and doesn't even deign to represent the prosecution contention, he just dismisses it completely.

I don't mean to brag ;) , but I got right what Massei was saying the first time I read it - that Raffaele called the Carbainieri before the Postal Police arrived. When I read it I noted it for a second reason as well - the way Massei made the correction. Massei worded it to delicately correct the timing issue without calling attention to (repudiating) the prosecution for their glaring error. Massei made it sound like a minor correction, when it was a major error by the prosecution. The true time error made by the police or prosecution was in the range of 20-24 minutes (see below).

There was a robberty/murder in the Washington DC area 8 or so years ago. The murderer stole the victim's ATM card and withdrew cash from an ATM machine. A grandmother and her 14 year old granddaughter visiting Washington DC from Texas as tourists used the same ATM machine 2 minutes later.

The detective investigating the murder matched the ATM cash withdrawl time with the timestamp of a photo which showed the grandmother withdraw cash. She was identified. Police in Texas arrested the grandmother and her 14 year old granddaughter for murder. To effect the arrest of the 14 year old girl, the police went into her school and arrested and handcuffed her for murder in geometry class in front of her classmates (a nice touch, eh?). Of course, she had no idea when the police came into class to arrest her what it was all about. Talk about being stunned!!!

Only later did defense prove that the ATM machine's clock timestamping the cash withdrawl was two minutes off the ATM machine's clock timestamping customer photos. (I hope the grandmother and granddaughter got a massive financial settlement for the negligent detective work which caused them to suffer serious harm.)

The lesson is always to verify if timestamp clocks are accurate. If they are not, as was the case with the timestamp of the video camera in the parking lot across the street from Meredith's cottage which videoed the Postal Police arriving "before" Raffaele called the Carbanieri, when you do calculate the correction don't negligently (or deliberately?) claim it was 10-12 minutes slow when in fact it was 10-12 minutes fast, a difference of 20-24 minutes.
 
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Grinder - I'm only going to do this one more time, because I've done it before....

Look at the timing Massei sets up, and you will get my point (and Kaosium's point.)



Massei uses the expressing, "a little after" to indicate time. In the case of describing when the postal police arrived, he times it using the expression, "a little before...."



Given that Massei has Raffaele calling 112 .....



......... the latter one being mere seconds after he'd called his sister, who'd told him to: "call the carabineiri!"....

.... the point is, rather than Knox and Sollecito trying to be secretive that morning, they were raising the alarm with everyone and had been for some time. Them raising the alarm is the whole reason that Filomena and her crew arrived... "at around 1 pm."

The whole point of the factoid that Mignini and the guilters propagate about the 112 calls being made AFTER the arrival of the postal police, is to make it seem that neither AK nor RS were raising the alarm, and then only tried too late once the postals were already there.

In short, Massei debunks one of the guilter factoids. Massei debunks Mignini on this point.

How many of these do you need? I can do all 13... in fact I HAVE done all 13.
There is also this statement in Massei:
"Twice, Battistelli had had to get out of the car and walk along before finding the house, where he arrived with Assistant Marzi at a little after 12:30 pm, or so it seemed to the two policemen."
From this and other statements in the report it is clear to me that Massei did not believe that the postal police arrived before the 112 call. At the same time he goes out of his way to not criticize Battistelli and Marzi.
However, on the issue of the locked door there is this interesting comment:
"On this point, it is possible that Battistelli’s memory is not precise."
Here is what Hellman has to say:
There has been much discussion on whether the call to 112 happened before or after the arrival of the
Police, with it having been hypothesized by the Public Minister that the call to the Carabinieri at 112 had
been made on seeing the arrival of the Police, just to validate the notion [tesi] of their innocence. Except
that even the Corte di Assise of first level, on the basis of the testimony given by the on-duty Police
personnel and of the times reproduced from the logs, arrived at the conclusion that these calls had been made before the arrival of the Police and unaware of their imminent arrival."
 
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There is also this statement in Massei:
"Twice, Battistelli had had to get out of the car and walk along before finding the house, where he arrived with Assistant Marzi at a little after 12:30 pm, or so it seemed to the two policemen."
From this and other statements in the report it is clear to me that Massei did not believe that the postal police arrived before the 112 call. At the same time he goes out of his way to not criticize Battistelli and Marzi.
However, on the issue of the locked door there is this interesting comment:
"On this point, it is possible that Battistelli’s memory is not precise."
Here is what Hellman has to say:
There has been much discussion on whether the call to 112 happened before or after the arrival of the
Police, with it having been hypothesized by the Public Minister that the call to the Carabinieri at 112 had
been made on seeing the arrival of the Police, just to validate the notion [tesi] of their innocence. Except that even the Corte di Assise of first level, on the basis of the testimony given by the on-duty Police personnel and of the times reproduced from the logs, arrived at the conclusion that these calls had been made before the arrival of the Police and unaware of their imminent arrival."

Nice catch. This is at odds, though, with the dietrology that Machiavelli brings to this.
 
Note the desperation here... how Knox's participation in an April Fools prank many years previous, a prank participated in with others, a prank which led neither Knox nor the others into a life of crime, is rolled into this.....

Yummi said:
This is, in a nutshell, the Prosecutor General Crini’s idea about motive. Even if he does not put a genesis theory inclusive of planned prank into the equation.

He says there is no evidence that the three had planned doing something specific to Meredith, like a prank or a planned sex assault. He calls a planned scenario “unnecessary”, while he does not state for sure that there wasn’t any; there is just no specific evidence of it.

However, this does not change the dynamic of the crime into nothing but details about the previous time, the genesis of the previous context.

It most certainly DOES change the dynamic of the crime. If Crini wants to keep Raffaele's kitchen knife in this scenario.... what's the explanation for the transport of the knife? Like Massei had to do, he'd have to invent some reason for carrying that knife - or has Crini conceded that the RIS Carabinieri DNA evidence has ruled out that knife?

For from not "changing the dynamic of the crime, there now IS NO DYNAMIC OF THE CRIME, other than the dispute over the pooh."

Yummi said:
Crini sticks to the most simple and stark elements needed for an explanation using the known factual elements, he says the background behind an emerging argument - the prior “genesis” of some conflict, especially that lead to possibility to spark arguments on Meredith’s part - should be considered the disagreements about house managements, meaning habits related to the sharing of the house.

The sharing of a common space is one certain background, one sure terrain where an argument or negative emotions must have sparked from. (This obviously does not rule out likely contribution by other causal factors).

How did the potential conflict, anger or annoyance on Meredith’s part, come to emerge and generate an argument at a specific moment? And in what situation did this happen?

Great question. Most people will read your explanation below, and see that you have not answered it. You've only tried to stage the question in some sort of vilifying manner hoping that guilt sticks with no answer.

Yummi said:
The path leading to this event, did it go through a planned prank? Through an annoying party or else? We don’t know.
Talk about a strawman argument. Are you saying here that Amanda made Rudy pooh in Filomena's toilet on purpose? As a prank which would knowingly annoy Meredith so that Amanda would have an excuse to stab her?

No wonder you only ask this as a question - because when it's pointed out to you how ridiculous this is, you have plenty of backpedalling room, "I was only asking the question!"

Strange - I thought you were advancing a theory of this crime! No wonder you have not tried until now.

Yummi said:
It’s possible that something was going on which we will never know. However the one thing we know, somethign that must have occurred on this path, is the physical, certain elements, are the unflushed toilet and the presence of Rudy Guede.

In other words, confirmation bias. "We know she killed Meredith so it must have happened in some manner, otherwise she didn't kill Meredith. But we know she did."

Yummi said:
These are elements that are certain and that must have played a role, as they would generate a complain on the part of Meredith, anger against Knox’s behaviours which were already complained about, and may well indicate that Meredith felt disturbed by the invading of her home space (unknown men, noise, dirt, and maybe the invasion of her private space, touching money in her private room as Guede’s testified). And this behaviour generated an argument.
This is terribly disrespectful of Meredith. It portrays Meredith as petty and prone to anger at petty things, and NO ONE thinks that, except perhaps for you. Moreover it contradicts Massei's motivations report which essentially says that both Meredith and Amanda led the same lifestyle. Have you not read the reasoning Massei uses for not testing the presumed semen stain under the victims hips? In deference to Meredith, I will let you read that for yourself, and not re-repost that here.

Yummi said:
The key point of reasoning of Crini was that the assault on Meredith had both the nature of sexual violence, and the nature of violent hate aggression. However, the component of rage aggression was predominant over the sexual violence component, which should be considered a minor aspect.

The aggression was triggered by rage more than by sexual arousal. The sexual violence is a kind of accessory. This is my understanding of Crini’s argument. But as being an accessory, it is also a kind of pretext.

A drugged-up Knox may not be able to stand the bursting humiliation of being insulted and threatned to be thrown out from the apartment or maybe accused of things involving stealing or maybe other aspects of behaviour (sex, cleaning etc). The sexual harassement is a response intended to “win” and humiliate, a letting out a feeling of rage.

"The aggression was triggered by rage more than by sexual arousal." Where is there evidence of this, other than desparate speculation? "May not?" How many times must "Foxy Knoxy" be reinvented? I'm not talking here about Amanda Knox, but Foxy Knoxy? And this does not explain at all Raffaele's actions, nor Rudy's for that mattter.

Yummi said:
But at this point, when this happens, the actual motive sets in.

Only after all this, at this point, this is the moment when the “motive”, in Crini’s scenario, actually takes shape.

It is the motive that Earthling described: the motive for the killing is fear, on the part of Knox and Sollecito, about the ultimate consequences of their “prank”, or of Knox’s not being able to control her emotions and letting go her resentment in a way that she could not control - that none of the three was able to control.
When the three idiots realized that they had gone too forward, that they were committing a violence, and they would pay extreme consequence for it, they realized they were gone beyond a no-return point.

At this point, as for at least two of them, Sollecito and Knox, the victim needs to die. Because this was the only way they could silence her.

Crini explains this pointing at the element that summed up their terror and triggered their lethal response: Meredith’s scream. The traumatic memory about this scream, the terror that they themselves had, probably at the idea that someone could hear this scream, and their killing to stop the scream.
This is the "motive"? Based on what - an anonymous internet poster named "Earthling"? Have you people not read Judge Massei's motivations report, which says that the motive was Rudy's and Rudy's alone, it was Rudy's lust and he needed no urging from anyone else?

How many times do you people get to reinvent this crime out of thin air?

Fundamentally, this is a dishonour to Meredith.
 
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The police found nothing on these two, but someone called Yummi has kindly filled in the gaps with this post just now from TJMK. I don't know how much is allowed to be imported from another forum, but here it is, simply because I find it from a completely different planet. And yes, I know Yummi is a member here under a different name.

When the three idiots realized that they had gone too forward, that they were committing a violence, and they would pay extreme consequence for it, they realized they were gone beyond a no-return point.

At this point, as for at least two of them, Sollecito and Knox, the victim needs to die. Because this was the only way they could silence her.

Crini explains this pointing at the element that summed up their terror and triggered their lethal response: Meredith’s scream. The traumatic memory about this scream, the terror that they themselves had, probably at the idea that someone could hear this scream, and their killing to stop the scream.

Does Crini say what happened next? 'Cuz I really really really wanna know....
 
I want it made known that I totally disagree with the poster Bill Williams personalising the debate here,If any poster believed that a judge or judge's have been bought off to render a particular verdict it is the said poster's right to hold such a view,even though I might not agree with such a view,in the spirit of this particular JREF forum I will defend to the death any poster's right to hold such a view point

I'm not sure what this poster is getting at. There is question, though, that this photo is of someone who the carabinieri interviewed in the visitor's section of the court. Is that true?

You may have to click the little arrow beside the poster's name to see the photo in question.
 
No Grinder, that isn't fair. Long before the defense did a "road show" there were endless lies printed in the media. And it is far easier to persuade minds that don't have an opinion than to change them. This became a "media show" the day that Amanda and Raffaele were captured on camera kissing. And the prosecution and police might as well have hired a press agent. Or did you forget the press conference with a dozen police declaring "case closed"?

Also, Amanda and Raffaele's family was working to save their chidren's lives. There is a significant difference than the crap what Harry Rag posts

As I recall you weren't following the case at the beginning. It is well known that the Knox family hired Marriott within days of the arrest.

Harry Rag didn't start, as has been demonstrated by others, for over a year.

The picture was taken in the early afternoon on the day of discovery and wasn't made into anything until after they were arrested.

The press conference was not the problem. The problem were the leaks and the exploitation of social media by the news media.
 
As I recall you weren't following the case at the beginning. It is well known that the Knox family hired Marriott within days of the arrest.

So? This completely ignores Mary_H's postings as to what the PR people handled at the beginning...

You do know that the Internet leaves a record of what happened before people joined in following this? Just checking... you keep trying to claim "special knowledge" based on this....
 
As I recall you weren't following the case at the beginning. It is well known that the Knox family hired Marriott within days of the arrest.

Harry Rag didn't start, as has been demonstrated by others, for over a year.

The picture was taken in the early afternoon on the day of discovery and wasn't made into anything until after they were arrested.

The press conference was not the problem. The problem were the leaks and the exploitation of social media by the news media.

I've read all the old Haloscan posts and he first appeared around May 2008 before they moved to another board (not pmf).
 
I want it made known that I totally disagree with the poster Bill Williams personalising the debate here,If any poster believed that a judge or judge's have been bought off to render a particular verdict it is the said poster's right to hold such a view,even though I might not agree with such a view,in the spirit of this particular JREF forum I will defend to the death any poster's right to hold such a view point

I clicked on the arrow to the right of billyryan's name (above) and see the photo. Yea, he looks like the stranger I thought might be Rudy's accomplice. At lease he looks "compatible" with the guy. Anybody know what size shoe does he wear? Does he ever walk barefoot around the house? :D

I'm checking with a psychic now and will let you know.
 
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... I don't know how much is allowed to be imported from another forum, but here it is, simply because I find it from a completely different planet. And yes, I know Yummi is a member here under a different name.


You should not import arguments from other forums. While we all assume that the poster in question is a member here, that is not a proven fact. The article you posted doesn't look like the writings of our Mach. it might have been written by someone who had been banned from this forum and therefore is not permitted to post here and not permitted to be posted here by proxy. If Machiavelli did write that, he can post it here himself. I don't think he wrote it because it looks like the writings of a prosecutors shill.
 
Read it closer, especially the words right before you started highlighting, then the reason he gives right after you stopped highlighting. This is the only mention he makes of the major prosecution contention that Raffaele called the Carabinieri after the Postal Police arrived on the scene: he dismisses it in a parenthetical aside. If you read the section on 'mixed blood' you may get the impression the prosecution didn't even make that contention as he quotes from where Stefanoni admitted that with the tests they did there was no way to establish that, then goes on more extensively than with the 112 call as to why it wasn't mixed blood.

So in these two instances you have a convicting judge rejecting the contentions and offering the reason(s) why they are specious, what more would you expect from a debunking?

The beginning refers to Raf changing his account. He doesn't dismiss in the aside but mentions the defenses contention in the aside. I repeat that not accepting a prosecution idea is not debunking. I wouldn't expect the judge to debunk and when someone characterizes it that way they are attempting to strengthen their argument.

However, the question that the police officer in the second phone call to 112 at 12:54 pm again put forward, relative to what had been taken (‚what have they taken?‛ page 77, hearing of February 14, 2009), also elicited a similar response from Raffaele Sollecito ("they have not taken anything"); it ought to have made him realise that to so quickly exclude the theft of any object would make the staged scene not as believable and could highlight the difficult-to-repair contradiction that is emphasised above: how could Raffaele Sollecito have excluded the possibility that something had been taken from Filomena’s bedroom? And then, a change of version takes place and he tells the Postal Police (who it can be held that, according [81] to what is maintained by the defendants’ defence, arrived after Raffaele Sollecito’s telephone call to 112, and this by nothing other than the fact that regarding these calls to 112, the Postal Police say nothing; in the same way that they said nothing about those that preceded them, at 12:40 pm and at 12:50 pm; each of these phone calls being of a not brief duration that, therefore, would not have escaped the attention of the two police officers) that there has been a burglary
I didn't say anything about mixed blood, but even there he didn't debunk or call the contentions spurious or really specious. He basically said that contention wasn't proven and wasn't needed for conviction.

The non-convicting judge, Hellmann, said Amanda was guilty of calumnia and that Rudy lost his shoe during the attack. I would never say that Hellmann debunked the idea that Rudy washed blood of his pants.
 
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