Posted on 05/27/2011 8:12:46 AM PDT by verum ago
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Knox’s appeal is now under way, and critical evidence used to convict her actually shows she’s innocent, says Boise State professor Greg Hampikian, a forensic DNA expert who volunteered to help the Knox defense.
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The DNA that investigators did find matched African drifter Rudy Guede, who had not previously been a suspect. “There’s a great amount of DNA … and it is all Rudy Guede’s,” Hampikian said. A bloody handprint on a wall and the feces were Guede’s, he said.
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The knife did not test positive for blood. It did contain a small amount of the victim’s DNA on the blade and Knox’s DNA on the handle. Hampikian doesn’t dispute that Knox’s DNA is on the knife handle. She had used utensils to cook in her boyfriend’s apartment, he said. But the amount of the victim’s DNA on the blade is so minuscule that it wouldn’t be accepted in a U.S. lab or court, he said. Hampikian thinks the victim’s DNA may have been transferred to the knife during evidence collection or processing — so he and his crew put the transfer theory to test. Using four “suspects” from a BSU dean’s office, Hampikian research associate Mike Davis and volunteer researcher Laura Wendel conducted an experiment. Davis donned a lab coat and gloves and collected a used soda can from an employee. Without changing gloves, he went to another room to collect a brand-new knife. Then he changed gloves and lab coat and repeated the process with each of the other employees. In one case, the knife tested positive for the employee’s DNA, even though she had never seen the knife or been in the same room as the knife. “That is what I think happened in the case of (Knox’s) knife,” Hampikian said. “Transfer does occur.”
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It's about the Italian aristocracy putting America in its place.
Why didn’t you just cut and paste the headline rather than misspell Amanda’s name? The source article has the name spelled correctly.
There was Zulu s*** and DNA in abundance that was not tested before trial?
How does one leave a bloody handprint and an unflushed toilet full of feces and NOT become a suspect?
Defense expert says some other dude did it. What a shocker.
Perhaps the equivalent of the DA wanted to nail the American girl rather than follow the evidence. The prosecutor should be fired!
Modern technology can amplify and detect shockingly small amounts of DNA. In fact you are constantly shedding detectable amounts of DNA everywhere you go. If someone brushes against you they often leave their DNA on your clothing.
I don’t know if she is guilty or not, I guess that is why they call it a trail. But myself and the Wife have to some degree watch this unfold from the start. There is just something unlikeable about that girl, murderer or not.
Ted Bundy was quite charming on the other hand.
A rational assessment of the case would likely conclude the following about Amanda Knox:
She and her boyfriend bought drugs from Rudy Guede, he was a casual acquaintance of theirs, and they knew that Rudy Guede was the last person around the murder victim.
However, neither her or the boyfriend wanted to volunteer to the police that a person they regularly bought drugs from was the best suspect - whether from a fear of drug charges or a fear of retaliation for snitching, take your pick.
Knox and Sollecito acted quite cavalierly about the whole thing, and that demeanor was noted by the Italian press.
Not only was he a suspect, but he was arrested less than three weeks after the murder and is currently serving a 16 year sentence for Kercher's murder.
Knox was convicted as his accomplice.
If only they set her free she’ll spend the rest of her life looking for the real killer.
She's obviously a diabolical killer.
How else can you explain the fact that she could commit a murder with a knife that left blood everywhere, without leaving a single strand of her own DNA?
He works on the board of at least one “Innocence project” organization.
Absence of someone DNA doesn’t prove someone didn’t do it, and you don’t have to be the one to wield the knife to be guilty. All people that participated can be held equally responsible.
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