According to Dateline NBC, the prosecutor was one of those people that believe in satanic child-molesting cults. He has prosecuted several of those cases over the years. Sort of like the persecution of the day-care operators in Wenatchee, WA.
This is a big show trial because of the British press. They whipped everyone into a frenzy and put tremendous pressure on the Italian justice system to convict these two young adults. Like somehow it couldn't have been a typical rape/murder by the animal that left DNA evidence all over the place.
My guess is that after the media hoopla dies down, they will overturn the convictions.
Honestly...whether this girl literally took part in the brutal gang rape and stabbing of her roommate to death or not...and regardless of what the ULTIMATE verdict comes down to: I don’t think it’s fair to portray her as this sweet, innocent angel (as our media has been) either.
Sure, maybe she shouldn’t get 26 years in jail, or even 2...but she should by no means be beatified into a saint.
A lot of the American responses alert me to how desensitized our culture’s become. Without knowing anything about the actual judicial process, people are quick to defend a girl who habitually engaged in ‘normal’ behaviors like sexual orgies, rampant drunkenness, and hard drug use. This girl claimed to be within feet of where the crime took place but changed her story over and over because she was “too high” to remember exactly what happened in detail and whether she heard screams or not.
People have condescendingly called some of the more conservative Italians in that town “prejudiced” for being shocked and turned off by those things alone!
Not to mention the murder/rape short stories she wrote on her Myspace blog, her strange behavior in the days following the murder and then in court, etc...
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=439135
Again, none of those things make her a murderer...but it certainly doesn’t make her a saint. This girl needs to clean up her act!
Here’s the video of Meredith Kercher’s family responding to news of the verdict: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYmbGtdQSag
Give me a break!.
The British press was able to put pressure on an Italian court?. In what universe?.