Not a fact at all.
I can still see no difference between a "Mignini conspiracy theory that Knox, Sollicito and Guede jointly murdered Meredith Kercher" and a "prosecution theory that Knox, Sollicito and Guede jointly murdered Meredith Kercher", apart from Mignini being incorrectly highlighted as the sole prosecutor and the word "conspiracy".
Mignini is the one who came up with the theory and in Italy the prosecutor directs the investigation. Thus he led this 'investigation' into trying to find proof of a bizarre conspiracy instead of what was suggested by the actual evidence.
I've no idea why Massei is brought into this "CT".
He was the presiding judge who made so many dubious decisions in favor of the prosecution he left himself with the the unenviable task of having to write up a motivations report without the evidence to support the bizarre theory that had been represented. Thus his tenuous leaps in logic and fast and loose hand-waving resemble that of conspiracy theorists. Two notable examples that haven't been brought up: how he hand-waves away the fact the glass pattern didn't correspond to his theory of the 'staged break-in,' and how he tries to hide the fact the prosecution's own experts testified the latest possible time of death was around 10:30.
The word "conspiracy" is obviously inserted in an attempt to discredit the prosecution theory,
The reason the word 'conspiracy' is inserted is probably because that's what the crime as prosecuted
actually is. The spontaneous conspiracy of three people who barely knew each other to rape and murder a girl for no discernible reason. Considering that two of those are college students with no history of violence that makes it an event nearly unprecedented in the annals of crime. There's no extenuating circumstances like you might find in anything remotely similar, no gang affiliations, cults, profit motive or anything else outside the mundane to think they all three conspired together and upon pain of life imprisonment won't give each other up.
Raffaele and Amanda had been together a
week, Rudy Guede's only connection to either is that he met Amanda at a party once, and went to her bar once. The idea that these three could have joined up to rape and murder Meredith is so far outside known human behavior it becomes nearly unique. That's in part why FBI legend John Douglas flew to Italy to aid the defense.
but otherwise there is no reason this thread should not be merged with the main Amanda Knox thread.
That's
almost funny Bob!
Right, so it is just a regular prosecutorial theory of a crime, but it's a conspiracy theory because it is a bad theory.
More along the lines it's a bad theory because it involves an unlikely conspiracy amongst three people, which is definitely 'multiplying entities beyond necessity.' The crime is easily explained as one man, known for breaking into second-story windows, breaks in and surprises Meredith and assaults and kills her. Adding two people without the evidence to support their presence is a laughable leap of logic.
Of course, relying on absurd over-interpretation of tiny insignificant details (like the "confirms what we knew" comment) and ignoring the mountain of inconvenient evidence, is also a hallmark of the innocentisti.
That 'tiny insignificant detail' happens to be in part their explanation
why they arrested Patrick, Amanda and Raffaele, which was an extremely dubious decision as everyone should agree in hindsight.
The only 'mountain of evidence' is not inconvenient, but irrelevant. Forget the bra clasp and 'murder knife' for a moment, what else of the physical 'evidence' is something you wouldn't expect to find were Amanda and Raffaele not murderers? Amanda's DNA in her own bathroom? That's a no-brainer, impossible to avoid. Luminol splotches? You'd find those just like they did at Raffaele's, which no one thinks had anything to do with the murder, much like the footprints in Amanda's bedroom. Amanda's DNA mixed with others? They
lived there, of course at some points their DNA would mix.
The fact they'd include 'evidence' that they would expect to find anyway is an indication of how weak their case is, it's not strengthened by a 'mountain' of irrelevant 'evidence.'
I don't get why Massei is singled out for this, he just wrote one of the reports. There are plenty of other prosecutors and judges involved in this "theory of the murder".
Then perhaps you need to become more familiar with
it. This report contains the evidence and reasoning that Amanda and Raffaele committed the crime, as 'proven' in the court Massei presided over. You'll find the facts in there generally accurate, however how those facts are strung together to try to 'prove' that dubious thesis is entertaining to behold.
And we have yet to hear any actual evidence of this alleged bizarre conspiracy.
A refrain common to those who've read the Massei Report!
