Posted on 06/17/2009 3:18:06 PM PDT by Syncro
NYT: DUKE LACROSSE PLAYERS KILLED MEREDITH KERCHER
June 17, 2009
Whether it is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Weather Underground, Central Park rapists, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jim Jones and the People's Temple, welfare recipients, Palestinian terrorists, murderers, abortionists, strippers or common criminals -- liberals always take the side of the enemies of civilization against civilization.
In the view of The New York Times, every criminal trial is a shocking miscarriage of justice -- except the ones that actually are shocking miscarriages of justice.
Thus, in last week's Times, Timothy Egan wrote about a shocking miscarriage of justice being carried out against a "high-spirited" American girl accused of murder by a crazed prosecutor in Perugia, Italy.
Egan's column bears as much relationship to the facts of the case as -- well, I guess as anything printed in the Times. And yet every American news network has embraced Egan's version and is flacking for the accused.
Amanda Knox, her erstwhile boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and another man, Rudy Guede, stand accused of murdering Knox's roommate, Meredith Kercher, on Nov. 1, 2007, at the house Knox and Kercher shared with two other girls in Perugia.
Egan triumphantly cites an "outside expert hired by CBS News" who calls Knox's prosecution, "the railroad job from hell." Egan does not mention that the "outside investigator" is Paul Ciolino of the "Innocence Project," whose investigations always seem to conclude that the accused is being railroaded.
Ciolino's theory of the crime -- adopted unquestioningly by Egan -- is that the third man, Guede, who has already confessed to the crime, acted alone.
Despite Ciolino's careful analysis of the evidence, his theory is contradicted by Guede himself, as well as the coroner and a leading forensic geneticist, both of whom have testified that Kercher's massive injuries could only have been inflicted by multiple assailants.
It is also contradicted by the court's 106-page report, released in January, explaining the judge's reasons for refusing to release Knox and Sollecito on bail.
Even the "48 Hours" executive producer doesn't endorse Ciolino's preposterous "single knifeman" theory, admitting: "Do we know every piece of data? No. Is there some troubling DNA? Yes."
Hey, does anyone know if CBS hired more than one "outside investigator" to look at the Knox case? Because if Egan considers one CBS "outside investigator" the Rosetta Stone of this case, it would be odd if he didn't mention the conclusions of another CBS outside investigator.
Why yes there was!
The second investigator, Paolo Sfriso, didn't pronounce judgment, but he did cite some of the evidence. The evidence includes:
-- a large kitchen knife, believed by forensic investigators to have caused at least one of Kercher's three wounds, found at Sollecito's house. Despite having been thoroughly washed, the knife had Knox's DNA on the handle and the murder victim's DNA on the blade.
-- a bloody footprint at the crime scene that matches Sollecito's. The floor had been cleaned so that the footprint was invisible to the naked eye, but was revealed with Luminol (just like on "CSI").
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
I don't know if Knox murdered her roommate, but I am sure that America's news coverage of this case is a crime.Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
From what I have read and seen on TV, the American is a freak and most likely a murderer.
“(just like on “CSI”)”???
after dinner ping
Egan also dismissed the knife at Sollecito's house with Knox's DNA on the handle and Kercher's DNA on the blade, claiming the knife contained only "a tiny amount of DNA that might match that of the victim." (I know I'm constantly finding small amounts of other people's DNA on the blades of my kitchen knives.)
LOL
Ann was wrong to drag them into this mess.
Her parents are going to be completely broke when this trial is over.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1193470/Amanda-Knox-trial-cost-family-1m.html
I feel bad for them. They obviously believe in her innocence.
I am waiting for Ann to turn her analytical skill to the two Japanese nationals caught smuggling 134 billion in United States bearer bonds from Italy into Switzerland.
Since that amount would equal 70% of all the serialized, but non-registered, bearer bonds outstanding as issued by the United States, this is quite a strange event.
Most of it was in 500 Million dollar bonds with 10 Kennedy billion Dollar bonds.
Ann, get on this one. Might be the blue dress of this decade.
I wish Ann could be a Senator. then finally someone would have the balls to mention Chappaquiddick on the floor of the Senate when debating The Swimmer.
DUKE CASE: WILL THE TIMES APOLOGIZE?
Speaking of the Duke kids, did I imagine it or was there an audio back then of the DA announcing charges against the innocent kids and the room erupting in the sort of cheers usually only heard when a sports team wins a championship on a last second play?
I was trying to think of who would be at such an announcement and all I could think of is that it must have been media types hearing the first indictment they ever agreed with. Orgasmically agreed with at that.
Anyhow, I'd like to hear that audio again just to make sure I didn't just imagine it. Either way, the incident shouldn't be forgotten and the left should forever be smacked upside the head with it.
Thus, in last week's Times, Timothy Egan wrote about a shocking miscarriage of justice being carried out against a "high-spirited" American girl accused of murder by a crazed prosecutor in Perugia, Italy.From www.thoseshirts.com:Egan's column bears as much relationship to the facts of the case as -- well, I guess as anything printed in the Times... - Ann Coulter
My question: Why does the Times care about this case? There must be some sub rosa connection between the accused and a pal of someone with stroke over on 8th Ave.
Great quote, great shirt!
LOL
Anyone like Knox who goes into something like this and is photographed over and over, laughing and happy, has something wrong with them. I feel sorry for the parents who have gone through their life savings trying to defend her. They’re throwing good money after a false hope.
Don't pick fights with brilliant lawyers who publish megabytes of material per year.
From her website:
June 11, 2009, 1:39 PM NYT: Pretty White Girls Don't Commit Murder - and they'll lie about the evidence to prove it!
Compare: Timothy Egan's Brief for the Defense
Excerpt: Locked from her house in the first days after it became a crime scene, Knox went to a store one day with Sollecito to buy emergency underwear. The British tabs bannered this as a g-string celebration of remorseless killers.
To: Not Exactly Pro-Prosecution Newsweek's version
Excerpt: Just days after Kercher's body was found last November in the villa Knox shared with the victim, security camera footage showed the couple buying lingerie in a local store, with Knox giggling and telling Sollecito, "Afterwards I'm going to take you home so we can have wild sex together."
If it doesn't matter, then why does Egan lie about it?
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