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To: avenir
What is the lowdown?

I don't know where to start.

Apparently everyone outside of the USA (except for a midwife in Tonga and a Botswanan named Nǃxau) believe Knox is guilty.

In the USA, there are websites, movements, legal defense groups, forensics experts, blogs, activists, and dog breeds devoted to proving Knox's innocence. When you read them, you are convinced Knox is innocent.

There are also USA websites, movements, legal groups, forensics experts, blogs, activists, and dog breeds devoted to showing Knox is guilty. When you read them, you are convinced Knox is guilty.

Knox lied. The Italian police lied. The Italian 'justice' system doesn't appear to have anything to do with justice, and prosecutors and judges have changed the legal theories of the crime and Knox's participation in it more often that I change socks. To Americans, the Italian system appears to include multiple bites at the apple by prosecutors.

A man, who was a friend of Knox's, has admitted his guilt, but (a) doing so gave him a reduced sentence and (b) he never claimed to be the sole person involved.

The police lies are plentiful. As for one Knox lie, she repeats the story about an hours-long, intimidating interrogation in a language she didn't know, before a 'forced' confession. However, dates and times show she received a translator within 30 minutes, and signed the confession within 90 minutes. Her interrogation to confession story is a lie.

Italian DNA experts weren't the quality of US DNA experts, and US DNA experts disagree.

Don't even get into the arguments over the alleged footprint of Knox in her roomie's blood near the front door. We'll need to talk about the fruit juice theory, what luminol fluoresces besides blood, whether Knox's USA forensics expert's DNA tests that conclude 'no blood' are correct, or other DNA experts are correct in saying Knox's DNA experts used method that didn't account for dilution of DNA through luminol, and more sensitive tests that show blood.

We need to address the confessed murder's previous crime using means of entry similar to means of entry into Knox's apartment, plus another crime in which he possessed knife similar to one of the knives used to murder Knox's roommate.

Yeah, it's complicated.

44 posted on 04/30/2014 9:33:25 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: Scoutmaster

The Italians are making this up as they go along.....common sense is all you need to figure out what happened in this case.


46 posted on 04/30/2014 9:38:31 AM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Scoutmaster

Wow! Thanks for that roller coaster ride through the case.


48 posted on 04/30/2014 9:58:19 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Scoutmaster

I’m a Canadian, i.e. outside the USA. I don’t believe Knox is guilty. I don’t believe she’s innocent, either. What I do believe is that I would not be able to vote to convict her on the circumstantial, contradictory, and incomplete evidence available.


57 posted on 04/30/2014 10:31:23 AM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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