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View Poll Results: Is Amanda Knox innocent or guilty of murdering Meredith Kercher in Perugia Italy?
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There is reasonable doubt here and should be found not guilty.
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She is guilty as can be and should be found guilty.
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She is completely innocent and should be acquitted.
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10-26-2011, 12:19 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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None of that disproves that the picture shows that partial print matches Guede's tread.
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Ok so I understand you position is that as long as we ignore experts and allow you to do all your own interpretation of the evidence then she is innocent.
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10-26-2011, 12:19 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
Did Stephanoni's Team Perform a TMB test?
Yes. Nor did she say she didn't. Massei 257 -258:
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To a question from the Public Prosecutor, she confirmed that a genetic profile of Knox had been extracted from Exhibits 178, 179, 180, and this biological material, which could not be confirmed with certainty as being human blood, could have been, she affirmed, "saliva or skin cells" (page 78); the negative result of the TMB test (tetramethylbenzidine) made it impossible to determine exactly what material had been analysed. She did, in any case, confirm that the profile of Knox had been found ("Certainly, Knox's genetic profile was found", page 79).
She added that, in her own experience, analyses performed with TMB on traces revealed by Luminol give about even results: 50% negative, 50% positive, and added that the acronym TMP indicated a colourimetric reaction which occurs in the presence of tetramethylbenzidine, which had been substituted for the carcinogenic benzidine; the presence of blood can be detected by means of this reaction.
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10-26-2011, 12:22 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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The only source for this is injusticeinperugia. Can you find a legitimate source that supports this?
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Supports which part? It was Amanda's expert that revealed the negative TMB tests.
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We do she said when given the choice between confirming if it is blood or confirming DNA she feels confirming DNA is more valuable information.
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1)Why can't you do both? 2)It's clear when she gets positive TMB she does confirmatory testing ala exhibit 199. 3)It's clear when she gets negative TMB she does confirmatory testing ala the knife. So why not here? Why did she have to choose? And again 3 out 9 of the luminol hits don't have DNA and none of the demonstrated bare footprints tested positive for DNA. Find a source that refutes. If not i believe Amanda's official appeal.
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There is. That you keep lying about it doesn't change the fact that both the footprint in front of the door and the one in Filomena's room both have Amanda and Meredith's DNA.
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Those are just amorphous blobs, that's the whole point. They aren't footprints nor attributable to anyone. There is a shoeprint in the hall too but I don't know that it was attributed to anyone. At least get the evidence straight.
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10-26-2011, 12:23 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
I'll have to find it directly but clearly it was Amanda's expert that found the TMB testing. Stefanoni never offered this in testimony before that.
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Originally Posted by Poker Reference
Did Stephanoni's Team Perform a TMB test?
Yes. Nor did she say she didn't. Massei 257 -258:
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10-26-2011, 12:24 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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Ok so I understand you position is that as long as we ignore experts and allow you to do all your own interpretation of the evidence then she is innocent.
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Do you think that picture shows the tread matches that particular print?
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10-26-2011, 12:24 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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No. Her argument was that DNA is not science. I'm fairly sure she regretted saying that but she said it.
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LOL.
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10-26-2011, 12:27 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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Except she didn't. We have the electropherogram. Anyone who understands DNA can repeat Stefanoni's work and get the same result.
That isn't how DNA works.
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That's BS if you ignore certain peaks and include others you can interpret it in different ways.
Did the report conclude or did it not conclude that there were erroneous interpretations of the electropherogram? Thought so.
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10-26-2011, 01:06 PM
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adept
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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This is something that stuck in my mind that I read a respected poster say on a different site. Part of the problem here is without trial transcripts we have to read between the lines. The prosecution never argues her clothes are missing, so we don't have any argument in court over this stuff.
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A "respected poster on another site" is just meaningless garbage. Yeah, what a shame we dont have the transcripts so that you can also not cite them and claim that you wont do work for lazy people/that you dont need to cite/that you are checking and will "get back to us on that one"... or that you will only cite references for money - something that you should have been banned for immediately.
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I'll try to find where exactly I read that and post back.
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Still waiting. Lost count of how many time you have said things like this - or just blatantly refused to cite. You are a troll and should be banned from this thread.
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Source?
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Well, 239?
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I started doing this just to brain dump because it's hard to find anyone left on the internet that actually will argue the guilt side of this case. I don't care if anyone believes me or not although I suspect many can see how weak Henry's arguments are.
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You are such an obvious shill its astounding you have lasted this long. It is clear that over and above your familiarity with the pro knox side, you are also being fed info, talking points and "counter arguments". You have been posting constantly for over a week and are as dishonest now as you were when you first started.
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I'll have to find it directly but clearly it was Amanda's expert that found the TMB testing. Stefanoni never offered this in testimony before that.
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Again, the old "ill have to find it..." crap. You say it and never revisit.
You have had people from all sides of the debate tell you that your posting is completely dishonest. Do everyone a favor and leave.
Edit: Who mods OOT? I have spent the last week scrolling through and ignoring vast swathes of pages containing 239's posts to try and continue reading the thread. It has nothing to do with his "side" of the argument, simply that he refuses to honestly discuss and debate. You have ruined what was a very interesting discussion for me and, I suspect, many readers.
Good posters who were not convinced of AK and RS's guilt have been driven away and all meaningful discussion has been shut down. I know that I have wanted to participate on many occasions but just thought "why bother" - it will only elicit an idiotic reply about "guilters", "memes" or other such nonsense and be drowned by 239's walls of text and multiple posts in a row, changing the subject, making unsubstantiated claims and asserting that those who have done huge amounts of work and sourced virtually everything are "disingenuous".
Last edited by Goater; 10-26-2011 at 01:17 PM.
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10-26-2011, 01:25 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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Originally Posted by 239
I'll have to find it directly but clearly it was Amanda's expert that found the TMB testing. Stefanoni never offered this in testimony before that.
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Before what? What do you mean Amanda's expert "found" the TMB testing? The passage I quoted is the only mention of it in all of Massei. The investigators either used it or they didn't, and Stephanoni was cross-examined BY the defence, and the TMB test's existence was accepted by all parties.
You said Stephanoni lied on the stand and for whatever reason claimed they didn't do a TMB. That, clearly, is not the case.
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10-26-2011, 01:31 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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A "respected poster on another site" is just meaningless garbage. Yeah, what a shame we dont have the transcripts so that you can also not cite them and claim that you wont do work for lazy people/that you dont need to cite/that you are checking and will "get back to us on that one"... or that you will only cite references for money - something that you should have been banned for immediately.
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I didn't state it as fact as I said I was pretty sure. I think what happened is that the investigators leaked to the press that Amanda's sweatshirt was missing when in fact it was in the dirty clothes hamper.
This is a biased site but you get the gist.
Here is another place where they're referring that the Italian magazine Oggi broke this story.
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/daily...eater_evid.php
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Walter Patumi, a forensic expert hired by Knox's defense team, told Oggi that while an Italian squad of "scientific police" were supposed to be investigating the crime scene, this key piece of evidence sat at the bottom of a basket of dirty laundry and was only identified after much of the crime scene evidence had already been moved.
"I can't tell you how embarrassed the police were when I showed them [the sweatshirt]," Patumi told Italian GQ this week. Fueled by Patumi's explosive revelation, some in the Italian media are now suggesting police may have planted the garment there.
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Still waiting. Lost count of how many time you have said things like this - or just blatantly refused to cite. You are a troll and should be banned from this thread.
Well, 239?
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I'm pretty sure Oggi is a reputable magazine in Italy. We need to get the article translated but I think this is probably the goods.
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You are such an obvious shill its astounding you have lasted this long. It is clear that over and above your familiarity with the pro knox side, you are also being fed info, talking points and "counter arguments". You have been posting constantly for over a week and are as dishonest now as you were when you first started.
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LOL, the arguments against the prosecution in this care are the right arguments for the most part. That's what you don't get.
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Again, the old "ill have to find it..." crap. You say it and never revisit.
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What do you need sourced good man?
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You have had people from all sides of the debate tell you that your posting is completely dishonest. Do everyone a favor and leave.
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Ok. No.
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Edit: Who mods OOT? I have spent the last week scrolling through vast swathes of pages containing 239's posts to try and continue reading the thread. Good posters who were not sure of AK and RS's guolt have been driven away and all meaningful discussion has been shut down. I know that I have wanted to participate on many occasions but just thought "why bother" - it will only elicit an idiotic reply about "guilters", "memes" or other such nonsense and be drowned by 239's walls of text and multiple posts in a row, changing the subject, making unsubstantiated claims and asserting that those who have done huge amounts of work and sourced virtually everything are "disingenuous".
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Why in the world would anyone moderate my posts? Am I not on topic? I'll be happy to respond your arguments without any of those words, bring them on. And you better source and cite them all as to not be hypocritical eh?
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10-26-2011, 01:35 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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Originally Posted by Poker Reference
Before what? What do you mean Amanda's expert "found" the TMB testing? The passage I quoted is the only mention of it in all of Massei. The investigators either used it or they didn't, and Stephanoni was cross-examined BY the defence, and the TMB test's existence was accepted by all parties.
You said Stephanoni lied on the stand and for whatever reason claimed they didn't do a TMB. That, clearly, is not the case.
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I'm still putting together this entire story, but I believe she was asked at one point if she did these tests and said no. She withheld a lot of documents from the defense. When the court forced her to turn them over they found the negative TMB tests. What you're quoting is basically her response once she was caught in the lie.
In reality it's not that important it's just interesting context into what seems to have been a very suspect centric approach to the forensics in this case. I'm trying to find one place that has this all in one place and lays it out, but that's the gist of it.
You're free to disregard it as I'm sure you would even if she told you herself she lied.
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10-26-2011, 01:40 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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Originally Posted by 239
Those are just amorphous blobs, that's the whole point. They aren't footprints nor attributable to anyone. There is a shoeprint in the hall too but I don't know that it was attributed to anyone. At least get the evidence straight.
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This is the description of L8
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finding 7: this is the print of a foot most likely imprinted in a deposit of haematic substance, since the Luminol was positive; it was found in the corridor in front of the of the door to Meredith Kercher's room, and was pointed towards the entrance. . It is considered useful for negative comparisons. The dimensions of the Luminol-*‐‑positive print (photo 51, main album) show 22.4mm width for the big toe; 78mm width for the metatarsus; 43mm width of the heel, compared to the corresponding measurements
from Amanda Knox's sole‑print (cf. photo 44 on page 5669, main album) at: 22mm with regard to the width of the big toe; 76.7mm the width of the metatarsus; 43mm the width of the heel.
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That doesn't sound like an amorphous blob.
Further while it is true that only three of the luminol prints had distinguishing features that indicate that they are feet are you now going to argue that given the other six are just foot sized ovals between the ones where digits are visible that we can't just extrapolate that they are all footprints given they are in a straight path? How desperate do you have to be to prove she didn't do it if this is going to be where you go.
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10-26-2011, 01:46 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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Here is another place where they're referring that the Italian magazine Oggi broke this story.
I'm pretty sure Oggi is a reputable magazine in Italy. We need to get the article translated but I think this is probably the goods.
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Oggi is the equivalent of the National Enquirer except a little more tame because in Europe defamation is considerably more serious. They gave out a set of knives with the issue where they talk about her release.
Goundreport is not a real source either.
You need to stop filling your heard with this garbage.
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10-26-2011, 01:48 PM
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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I'm still putting together this entire story, but I believe she was asked at one point if she did these tests and said no. She withheld a lot of documents from the defense. When the court forced her to turn them over they found the negative TMB tests. What you're quoting is basically her response once she was caught in the lie.
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Source that she held back any documentation.
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10-26-2011, 01:51 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Re: Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
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Originally Posted by 239
I'm still putting together this entire story, but I believe she was asked at one point if she did these tests and said no. She withheld a lot of documents from the defense. When the court forced her to turn them over they found the negative TMB tests. What you're quoting is basically her response once she was caught in the lie.
In reality it's not that important it's just interesting context into what seems to have been a very suspect centric approach to the forensics in this case. I'm trying to find one place that has this all in one place and lays it out, but that's the gist of it.
You're free to disregard it as I'm sure you would even if she told you herself she lied.
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I'm disregarding it because you being "pretty sure" about something is meaningless when you don't provide a reason why anyone else should be "pretty sure" too. It is, however, meaningful that you got it from a gaggle of people who are similarly "pretty sure" about the footprint and "pretty sure" Amanda never changed her story.
Like, do you understand how the prosecution's information got to the defence in the real world? They assembled 10,469 pages and gave Ghirga a copy. Really. You can purchase this filing for 1 euro per page. The defence didn't have to go around to each department and beg for it, and no department has an opportunity (or incentive) to withhold anything.
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