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Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer? Amanda Knox....Innocent American on trial in Italy or cold-blooded murderer?
View Poll Results: Is Amanda Knox innocent or guilty of murdering Meredith Kercher in Perugia Italy?
There is reasonable doubt here and should be found not guilty.
381 26.87%
She is guilty as can be and should be found guilty.
551 38.86%
She is completely innocent and should be acquitted.
168 11.85%
Undecided
318 22.43%

05-05-2015 , 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by lkasigh
Usually in a criminal case DNA would be extracted from a visible stain such as blood or saliva or semen. In this case there was no visible stain on the knife, just DNA, the equivalent of a few cells' worth. It's much less compelling as evidence for that reason. Also it being a small sample makes it is more easy to be a result of contamination.

In any case, if DNA got onto a knife by way of the knife being the murder weapon, it could only have got there by blood. If all the blood was washed off, all the DNA would have been washed off with it. Since there was no blood on the knife, any DNA that got there wasn't due to the knife being used in the murder.

so much WOW @ this entire post. now i see why over the years the knox supporters were so able to convince people of their actual guilt. it's posts like these that do the trick.
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05-05-2015 , 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Crozbee
so much WOW @ this entire post. now i see why over the years the knox supporters were so able to convince people of their actual guilt. it's posts like these that do the trick.
Wow! It's amazing the number of thoughtful and insightful posts in one day. I can say without any hyperbole, that if you ever apply to Harvard, Yale, or Oxford, the degree of insight and intellect demonstrated in this post should be sufficient to grant you a full scholarship. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they offered you a PhD and a post as tenured professor straight away.

While Rep_lol's earlier posts convinced me of the absolute certainty of Knox and Sollecito's undeniable guilt, this post really takes the cake, in strengthening that certainty to the firmness of solid granite. In fact, I would state that I am now more convinced of Knox and Sollecito's guilt than I am of my own existence.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for opening my eyes to the light!
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05-05-2015 , 12:25 PM
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When I talk about the totality of the evidence I mean this:

Guede's fingerprints were found in the victim's blood. That's unequivoval evidence that he was there when the murder was committed.
Knox's footprints were found in the victim's blood and Guede was identified by a palm print, not a finger print. AK/RS left plenty of traces of themselves at the crime scene and lied with the same consistency as Guede. I can't believe your actual reasoning system here, seriously.

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No trace of Knox or Sollecito was found at the crime scene, except a small bit of DNA on a scrap of the victim's clothing. That's unequivocal evidence that they weren't there when the murder was committed (since if they were, there WOULD BE the same degree of evidence that there was against Guede).
Tell me you're joking with this. Are you setting some personal goal to make the most amount of dumb posts in one sitting, is that it? That almost tops your post on DNA. Again, they left plenty of traces of themselves at the crime scene with more samples of DNA evidence existing against Knox than Guede.

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Every other piece of evidence has to be viewed in light of these two pieces of evidence, which are known with certainty based on the physical evidence collected from the scene: Guede was there, Knox and Sollecito were not.
What? No it doesn't, jfc this is ridiculous.

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The only way to link the other two to the murder would be evidence linking them to Guede, showing that they had collaborated together in some way, and no such evidence was presented.
Yeah okay. You're just on a roll here. This is what I mean by contortionist logic and that's being kind.
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05-05-2015 , 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by corpus vile
Knox's footprints were found in the victim's blood and Guede was identified by a palm print, not a finger print. AK/RS left plenty of traces of themselves at the crime scene and lied with the same consistency as Guede. I can't believe your actual reasoning system here, seriously.


Tell me you're joking with this. Are you setting some personal goal to make the most amount of dumb posts in one sitting, is that it? That almost tops your post on DNA. Again, they left plenty of traces of themselves at the crime scene with more samples of DNA evidence existing against Knox than Guede.


What? No it doesn't, jfc this is ridiculous.


Yeah okay. You're just on a roll here. This is what I mean by contortionist logic and that's being kind.
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05-05-2015 , 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by lkasigh
I can't thank you enough for your thoughtful post, opening my eyes to the truth. I'm sure that others will join me in commending you for your superior intelligence and communicative skills.

On the basis of this post my confidence in the complete guilt of Knox and Sollecito has increased beyond all bounds.
hey don't get butthurt with me bro, i didn't force you to come in here and start spouting off like a complete idiot regarding things you're completely clueless about
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05-05-2015 , 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by k1974
Ken Dine, it's pretty clear by your sock puppet comments and just the general attitude of your posts that you aren't interested in having a discussion. You have your beliefs and you are going to insult everyone you can. Most of the time when I see your name pop up I know its going to be insulting drivel so I just skip to the next comment. 239, and others, you guys seem to be alright and the type of people you can have a conversation with.
A “sock puppet” by definition is a secondary acct that a regular poster creates for (usually) nefarious reasons. I’ve only posted here using my real name, and no other. WHEREAS, your new acct has all the trademarks of being a sock-puppet acct. Whether you are or not, I don’t know for sure (yet?)

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That being said I had a comment a few pages back that right after the murder, before Guede was identified, the investigators thought the crime scene looked staged. Glass on top of the clothes and illogical point of entry are the main reasons.
I also explained a few postings back that the offical police photographs taken of Filomena’s bedroom showed no glass atop her strewn clothing. Even if glass was atop her strewn clothing earlier, Filomena may have herself caused the glass to fall atop her clothing when she picked up her laptop that was covered in glass.

The clothing may have also been dirty clothing that Filomena had tosssed onto the floor before rushing out the door to attend the B-Day party that day.

The point is, that by the time the Carabinieri had arrived on the scene to investigate the murder, Filomena had already been escorted from the cottage, and the responding officers testified they didn’t go into Filomena’s bedroom until AFTER the police had photographed her bedroom, so obviously 'IF' the responding Carabinieri officers felt the crime scene had been staged upon arriving on the scene, then it wasn’t due to seeing glass shards atop Filomena’s clothing since by the time they had arrived, there was no glass to be seen on Filomena’s clothing.

Filomena may have later said she saw glass on her clothing, but there’s no confirmed record WHEN she first made that claim.

Also, as I had recently posted, in one of Guede’s earlier burglaries as recorded in Massei, the police had found broken glass shards both under and atop strewn clothing in that other crime scene, but the police didn’t tie those other glass shards to a staged break-in.

In short, you (and the other ‘Guilters’) are reading too much into insignificant trivia, that even if true, doesn’t prove a staged break-in. Also, even if the break-in were staged, that doesn’t prove Amanda had staged a break-in.

Maybe, Filomena came home, and after finding Guede pooping in her bathroom, Filomena became so enraged that she killed Meredith, and then Filomena staged the break-in to cover her own tracks.

I don’t believe that happened, just pointing out you can invent many fanciful scenarios that don't involve Amanda.

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Originally Posted by k1974
I looked at the second story window on the side of my house when I got home from work and couldn't fathom climbing up there and throwing a rock through the window to breakin when there are much simpler points of entry.
I agree that the patio doors would seem easier to reach, but perhaps Guede threw the rock into Filomena’s window in order to see if any lights came on, which is a common burglar tactic to see if anyone is home.

Then again, if Amanda wanted to stage a burglary, then breaking a glass panel from the patio doors would seem easier (and less dangerous) to do. Or, Amanda could have simply unlocked those doors since Meredith may have unlocked them herself not knowing Guede was lurking about.

The staged break-in scenario they used to cast suspicion on Amanda never made any sense.

Even if Guede got in another way after throwing the rock and breaking the window, access thru Filomena’s window wouldn’t have been that difficult –– here’s a video showing some guy easily climbing up to Filomena’s window by stepping on the window grates of the window below Filomena’s window:

http://www.injusticeinperugia.org/En...ughWindow.html

The Truth About the Break In:

http://www.injusticeinperugia.org/window.html

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Originally Posted by k1974
Once Guede is identified and his history is known it becomes more logical that it is an actual point of entry but in the crucial early hours it definitely seemed suspicious to investigators.
The problem with your “early” staged theory, is that this staged break-in evolved over the course of a few days after the police had already focused in on Amanda, so the break-in theory was developed along with other nonsense to point suspicion at Amanda.

Before any forensic evidence came back from the labs, the police were already claiming their victory by solving the case the old-fashioned way, thru police intuition –– see their ‘Case Closed!’ victory party of Nov 6, 2007 (the same day Amanda was arrested):

http://www.amandaknoxcase.com/

Of course, after the lab results started trickling in with nothing incriminating towards Amanda, Raffaele or Lumumba, the police then had to scramble to create new fanciful scenarios in order to save face.

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Originally Posted by k1974
Also, false confessions are a known phenomenon but it takes a certain type of person and a certain set of circumstances to cause it. I submit the vast majority of people who get interrogated all night long, and the police lie to (which is standard interrogation tactics as in "we know you did it confess") do not become confused enough to say they were there when somebody killed their roommate when they were in another apartment asleep with their boyfriend. Writing a letter the next day saying your not sure if your confession was real or not? Lady your roommate is dead. What do you mean your confused whether you were there or not?? Maybe it was a false confession, and the phenomenon does exist. However, I submit most of the time a confession is real and if you confess to a crime you have just put yourself directly into legal trouble.
You “submit” your beliefs based upon what?

Read this:

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Astonishingly, more than 1 out of 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence made a false confession or incriminating statement.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/caus...-or-admissions
There are many scholarly articles on the problem of police induced false confessions, so before you “submit” your opinions here for review, please do a little research on the topic:

https://www.google.com/search?noj=1&....0.5Fj12QLalXk
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05-05-2015 , 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by amead
You've mentioned a few times about the "small bit of DNA" being super super tiny so as to be almost irrelevant. I'm curious, how big do you think DNA is usually? Acknowledging that there was a "small bit of DNA" on the knife that belonged to Meredith, doesn't that give you a bit of pause, or because it was microscopic and not a big ol' steak of DNA it's no big deal?
The tiny amount of DNA supposedly found on Raffaele's kitchen knife by Stefanoni was so tiny that she couldn't even quantify it the normal way, so Stefanoni resorted to unscientific methods, which Stefanoni even admitted while being grilled on the stand since she admitted that the methods she had used weren't scientific - her admission is in the transcripts.

Stefanoni admitted the DNA she had claimed to have tested was so minute that it couldn't first have been divided (which is a standard protocol), so even if Meredith's DNA was on that knife, it would have been LCN (Low Copy Number) DNA, and Stefanoni's lab wasn't even designed to test LCN-DNA.

Stefanoni's lab results were clearly BOGUS and her results have been thoroughly discredited, which is why this latest Cassation ruling obviously didn't give that DNA evidence any weight.

Then there's the problem of the TMB test, which is capable of detecting just a few red blood cells, and since no human blood was detected on Raffaele's kitchen knife, even if a few cells of Meredith's DNA were found, they weren't her DNA from blood cells, so the DNA could have been from Meredith's skin cells, which could have been there thru innocent transfer, or even lab contamination.

When testing LCN-DNA you need specially designed very clean labs since newer LCN testing is so sensitive it can detect transfer DNA from contamination, and Stefanoni's lab wasn't even then accredited to do normal DNA testing.
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05-05-2015 , 02:00 PM
Yep, exactly as I said. The circumstances of her DNA profile being obtained from Raf's knife might be such to allow for reasonable doubt re: scientific methodologies etc., but there it was, whether it be from her tissue or something else. You suggest that the most likely reason for that is contamination, I suggest the most likely reason was that her DNA was on the knife. Alas, we'll never know.
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05-05-2015 , 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by lkasigh
Wow! It's amazing the number of thoughtful and insightful posts in one day. I can say without any hyperbole, that if you ever apply to Harvard, Yale, or Oxford, the degree of insight and intellect demonstrated in this post should be sufficient to grant you a full scholarship. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they offered you a PhD and a post as tenured professor straight away.

While Rep_lol's earlier posts convinced me of the absolute certainty of Knox and Sollecito's undeniable guilt, this post really takes the cake, in strengthening that certainty to the firmness of solid granite. In fact, I would state that I am now more convinced of Knox and Sollecito's guilt than I am of my own existence.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for opening my eyes to the light!


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05-05-2015 , 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by 14cobster
She would have known that he had a truthful alibi, somewhere that wasn't at the cottage and could potentially be corroborated by witnesses. It seems like a pretty big risk, but perhaps not enough of one in your view, since the investigators were gung ho about Lumumba's involvement?

At any rate, 239 did not concede that she's guilty of criminal slander by your logic because he did not concede that AK knew that Lumumba had an alibi. Your logic is rather forced here.
He said Knox knew that Patrick had an alibi. You've just now asserted that Knox would have known he had an alibi. She wouldn't have known this. Not sure how you can assert that she would have known. And had she have known then you're conceding that she knowingly (due to her knowing that Patrick had an alibi) falsely accused him of murder.
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05-05-2015 , 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by amead
Yep, exactly as I said. The circumstances of her DNA profile being obtained from Raf's knife might be such to allow for reasonable doubt re: scientific methodologies etc., but there it was, whether it be from her tissue or something else.

You suggest that the most likely reason for that is contamination, I suggest the most likely reason was that her DNA was on the knife. Alas, we'll never know.
Just because YOU may never know doesn't mean that DNA experts don't know. Indeed, many DNA experts in America, Italy and in the UK have already stated that the testing of Raffaele's knife was totally bogus.

I've posted all of the below here already, but I'll do it again. I won't bother to post American DNA experts who have gone on the record to dispute Stefanoni's idiotic testing methods, so let's stick with UK and Italian DNA experts for now.

This first UK article talks about UK DNA expert Professor Peter Gill appearing on Italian TV (prior to the recent exoneration) explaining how Stefanoni's bogus knife results had to be from contamination:

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Italian Supreme Court to rule on guilt or innocence of Knox, 27, and her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for murder of Meredith Kercher

By CHRIS WHITE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
23 March 2015

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Knox's innocence or guilt is hugely divisive of public opinion both in the UK, where Kercher was from, and in Italy - although in the United States, Knox has received significant support.

Italian writer Frank Sfarzo, who has been covering the case and is close to Sollecito and his team said he believed there was an '80 per cent' chance of both of them having their conviction overturned.

Sfarzo said there had been a successful PR campaign by Sollecito's legal team. Earlier this month, his defense gave the courts a 300-page dossier, which was backed by eminent scientists who said that the pair couldn't possibly have committed the crime.

British DNA expert Professor Peter Gill went on Italian TV earlier this month to back their bid to have the conviction overturned because of contaminated forensic evidence.

Sfarzo believes Knox and her supporters in Seattle should look at how opinions have changed in Italy in recent months on the case.
He says: 'I'm in Italy, they're in Seattle, I'm more hopeful. Things have changed recently, the scientific community has made it clear that there is no proof against them, they've spoken for the first time.

'I've seen opinions in Italy changed, they think it's absurd. Even the most conservative people who spoke against them, all of a sudden, they've changed, they've heard what the scientists have to say.

Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...h-Kercher.html
Another UK article concerning DNA expert Peter Gill:

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Professor Peter Gill, a lecturer of Forensic Genetics at Oslo University, Norway, looked in-depth at the DNA results from the crime scene using the originally analysis by the Italian Police Scientific Department and also a second independent analysis ordered by the judge in the first appeal.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Professor Gill admits that the evidence against Knox and Sollecito is very weak and and compares it to something out of the fictional CSI TV series.
He said: ‘It’s very, very tenuous to use this [DNA] evidence to link to the conclusion that it proves an activity such as stabbing a victim.

Professor Gill has analyzed the disputed evidence - DNA found on a kitchen knife and on Meredith's bra clasp - in his book 'Misleading DNA Evidence: Reasons For Miscarriages Of Justice', which has been used by Sollecito's legal team in the latest appeal to the courts.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3ZI4XQElD
You can watch DNA expert Peter Gill on Italian TV in this video clip:

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Internationally renowned DNA expert Professor Peter Gill explains to Italy about how contamination affected the Amanda Knox case:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2k745h
Here are some relevant portions from the transcript of the above video:
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Q. In the Kercher case they brought the presumptive evidence of DNA from Raffaele Sollecito recovered from Meredith Kercher’s bra clasp which had been collected 46 days later from the crime scene. A crime scene that had been repeatedly contaminated and re-investigated, and after the crime scene had been closed as far as I recall. In such a case is it actually possible to extract DNA without errors and in a way that’s meaningful?

A. In the case of the bra clasp, there is certainly (Sollecito’s) DNA on the bra clasp, but your question is very pertinent and it comes back to what I said previously; we can detect a DNA profile, but what does it mean? I can take a DNA profile from anywhere in this room, and I can find DNA profiles everywhere, but it doesn’t mean I have participated in a murder. Now with the specific example of DNA on the bra clasp, it is a complex mixture, with at least 2 males and possibly more male components in this mixture. Is it possible that Sollecito’s DNA has been transmitted from one area of the crime scene to another? This of course is a difficult question; and let me come back to… if we’re going to answer these kinds of questions, then the crime scene needs to be managed in a very strictly scientific fashion. The investigators themselves actually become vectors of DNA. For example, if an investigator touches a door handle and then proceeds into the crime scene, and then touches the bra clasp, without changing gloves in between, then I would actually expect DNA transfer to occur. And I think I would be surprised if it did not occur, actually. So this is the crucial question, and the difficulty with a crime scene is you can’t get in a little time machine and go backwards to find out what actually happened, but if there is sufficient doubt in a case, then the possibility of contamination by an investigator is something we should consider seriously, and not dismiss out of hand. My understanding is that there were no DNA swabs taken from the door handle, from the outside, for example, and therefore Sollecito’s DNA profile was not actually recovered outside the room. But my point is, there is considerable uncertainty in the case, because it is not denied that Sollecito had access to the flat, and therefore his DNA will be present in the flat. Then the question is ‘what is the significance of finding DNA on the bra clasp? And what are the possible methods of transfer?’

Q. Turning to the knife, which was taken from Raffaele Sollecito’s drawer. They found – there is no doubt that it had Amanda’s DNA on it, but none of the victim, and it is claimed by the prosecution that this is the knife that was used to stab Meredith Kercher. It was obviously washed, because it was found to be very clean. Is it possible for them to have washed off the DNA of the victim, and presumably the blood as well, and to have left the DNA of Amanda?

A. My understanding is that there was DNA from Amanda Knox on the handle, and trace DNA evidence of Meredith Kercher on the blade. However the DNA profile on the blade, purported to be from Meredith Kercher was extremely weak, and furthermore there was no evidence whatsoever of any blood. But there was evidence of starch grains which was evidence that the knife was used to cut food. So the main question is ‘was the knife used to stab Meredith Kercher?’ And obviously part of the evidence is the DNA profile on the knife handle, which matched Amanda Knox. But there are obviously two possibilities; either the knife was used to stab Kercher, or else it was used to prepare food and it was not used to stab Kercher. And the question is ‘can DNA profiles distinguish between the two events?’ And it clearly cannot, because the DNA profile gives us no information about how it was transferred. The DNA profile which I would observe on the handle of a knife would be the same regardless of whether the knife had been used to cut food or to stab a victim.

I have seen some evidence from the judgement where it has been proposed that the distribution of the DNA on the knife handle is evidence that it was used to stab rather than to cut food, but there is absolutely no scientific evidence, there are no scientific papers whatsoever that would support this kind of conclusion.

So again the DNA profile takes us no further forward to decide whether it was transferred as the result of a cutting action as opposed to a stabbing action. The DNA profile purported to come from Meredith Kercher is extremely low level, and again we have to consider the same possibilities of how it got there. Either it was used as a murder weapon, or else the DNA could have been transferred as a result of a contamination event. … It’s said that the knife has been cleaned with bleach, for example, which is why there is a small amount of material purported to come from Meredith Kercher, but I actually find it quite difficult to believe that bleach would selectively remove blood and leave some DNA there. And it’s also another example where no experiments have been carried out to verify whether these conclusions are feasible. I would actually carry out some experiments to take some knives; I would do careful controls – I would put blood on the knife blade, I would clean it with bleach for example, to see whether the DNA was selectively removed or stayed intact. But these types of experiments have not been carried out, and therefore all I see with this is quite a lot of speculation.

Q. The knife and bra clasp have been much discussed, but there is this other element which has been completely ignored by prosecutors and by the Court, and that is that there are presumptive traces of semen shown up by the crimescope on the cushion on which Meredith’s body lay. Do you think that examination of this would be crucial under normal circumstances to reveal the identity of the real murderer or murderers?

A. If semen stains have been discovered in the vicinity of the victim’s body, then I am extremely surprised that no efforts have been taken to analyse the material. It doesn’t mean to say that it is associated with the crime event, – it might have been deposited some time previous to the crime, for example – but nevertheless if there is potentially important evidence like that which has been discovered, then it is difficult to understand why it has not been analysed, as it may take us further forward in understanding how this crime was committed.

http://www.amandaknoxcase.com/peter-gill-interview/
I realize that you're a brain-dead 'Guilter' so the above overwhelming scientific opinion won't likely change your childish views, but there you have it.

If you disagree, then go find a reputable scientist who supports Stefanoni's DNA testing?

I do recall one UK expert (I believe in DNA statistical analysis) who early on had claimed that Raffaele's DNA was legitimately found on Meredith's bra-clasp, but his opinion was a lone opinion on the matter.
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05-05-2015 , 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by amead
Yep, exactly as I said. The circumstances of her DNA profile being obtained from Raf's knife might be such to allow for reasonable doubt re: scientific methodologies etc., but there it was, whether it be from her tissue or something else. You suggest that the most likely reason for that is contamination, I suggest the most likely reason was that her DNA was on the knife. Alas, we'll never know.
Yeah, but why do you think that given what we know about the chain of custody, processing, and methodologies employed? And further how do you think the knife got to the crimescene and why was it there? How is the DNA result connected to the crime?
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05-05-2015 , 03:33 PM
Amanda knew Patrick was at work that night. I'm not sure why she'd think he didn't have an alibi? Maybe a better way to say it is "Reasonably, she would have thought he had an alibi". Either way accusing him and implicating herself in order to deflect blame from herself would have been silly given she was trying to frame Guede according to the guilt people.
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05-05-2015 , 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken Dine
Just because YOU may never know doesn't mean that DNA experts don't know. Indeed, many DNA experts in America, Italy and in the UK have already stated that the testing of Raffaele's knife was totally bogus.
And many think it was legit. Same reason why posting a YouTube video of someone giving a false confession doesn't make Amanda Knox's confession false, posting someone saying they don't like the DNA result doesn't make it bogus.

But you know this, and are just trolling.
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05-05-2015 , 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Crozbee
zzzzzz

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I'm totally blown away! Your posts just keep getting more and more insightful. I mean, before I saw your post I never would have expected that someone could express such deep intellect utilizing a combination of only three keyboard characters. Once you master the full alphabet, I'm sure a Pulitzer prize, if not the Nobel, is in the cards for you.

Bravo, sir! Bravo!
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05-05-2015 , 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by +rep_lol
hey don't get butthurt with me bro, i didn't force you to come in here and start spouting off like a complete idiot regarding things you're completely clueless about
I don't know what you want, brother. I've already thanked you from the depths of my heart for your insightful posts, which changed my point of view on this case. Although Crozbee's posts win out on conciseness, yours show much greater depth of insight, as well as superior logical rigour. In fact I would encourage all readers of this thread to re-read all of your posts multiple times, as they contain many pearls of wisdom that could easily be overlooked the first time through.

I fully expect that generations to come will admire you for logic, intellect, and more importantly, unquenchable thirst for justice. My deepest, deepest respect to you sir. You truly are a king among men.
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05-05-2015 , 05:05 PM
You don't have to try that hard.
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05-05-2015 , 05:48 PM
ty ikasigh, now turn off your computer and never come back
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05-05-2015 , 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by corpus vile
He said Knox knew that Patrick had an alibi. You've just now asserted that Knox would have known he had an alibi. She wouldn't have known this. Not sure how you can assert that she would have known. And had she have known then you're conceding that she knowingly (due to her knowing that Patrick had an alibi) falsely accused him of murder.
I realize now that I slightly misinterpreted 239's post. I took him to have meant that if she had been intentionally involved in the murder, she would have known that Lumumba wasn't at the crime scene, but it turns out that he meant simply that she knew he was at work that night, which you seemed to have correctly understood.

At any rate, I would myself say, once again, that if she was intentionally involved in the murder, she would have known that he had a truthful alibi simply because she would have known that he wasn't there and therefore that he was somewhere else, I guess presumably at work, or back at home. If you take alibi in this case to mean something that can definitely be corroborated in a court of law through witness testimony, then I guess even in this case she wouldn't KNOW that he had that kind of solid alibi, so that is why I say 'truthful.' Obviously Lumumba would just say where he was, as it would be the definite truth.

I believe that she is innocent of course, and I also believe that under the circumstance of being questioned by the investigators, she wasn't certain that Lumumba had a truthful alibi, such as being at work as he was supposed to have been, because she was somehow led to believe that he partook in the murder.
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05-05-2015 , 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by amead
I get that false confessions happen, but what does "quite common" mean? We're talking like a couple percent of the time right? I'd have to assume the vast majority of confessions are indeed true.

Seems like there quite possibly was enough reasonable doubt for an acquittal, but the whole "completely exonerated" "not a shred of credible evidence" "only a ****** believes" "100% innocent" blather is super weak and does the pro-innocence side no favors in the court of not looking like a silly goose.
Of the 329 DNA exonerations thanks to the work of the Innocence Project, ~25% had falsely confessed. 1 in 4 seems like a lot to me.

link: http://www.innocenceproject.org/caus...-or-admissions

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05-05-2015 , 07:06 PM
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Just because YOU may never know doesn't mean that DNA experts don't know. Indeed, many DNA experts in America, Italy and in the UK have already stated that the testing of Raffaele's knife was totally bogus.
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And many think it was legit. Same reason why posting a YouTube video of someone giving a false confession doesn't make Amanda Knox's confession false, posting someone saying they don't like the DNA result doesn't make it bogus.

But you know this, and are just trolling.
What I KNOW is that you're a brain-dead 'Guilter' (Oski wannabe), and based upon your chaotic reasoning, you're likely deeply psychotic.

I have no idea what causes people to drop over the edge spouting utter inanities as you've been doing here, but here's an interesting article that suggests reasons for your crazy behavior –– I realize this article won't help you since you're deeply psychotic and in need of serious professional help, but it may be insightful for other posters here:

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“Burn Her at the Stake”

Amanda Knox was acquitted of murder. Why do so many people still hate her so much?

By Douglas Preston

This piece was adapted from Trial by Fury, by Douglas Preston, available for download as a Kindle Single.

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"she's a skanky, lying sociopathic murderer from a family of camera hungry hicks"

"The bitch needs to die naked tasting her own blood"

"BURN HER AT THE STAKE"

"Cartwheeling grinning murdering slag needs to be executed in the Towers of London."


~random online comments about Amanda Knox
On Nov. 2, 2007, in the ancient and lovely hill town of Perugia, Italy, a British girl named Meredith Kercher was found murdered in the cottage she shared with several other students. Four days later, police and prosecutors announced they had arrested the three killers, among them a 20-year-old college student from Seattle named Amanda Knox. The ensuing investigation, trial, conviction, and appeal lasted five years. On March 26, an Italian court ruled that she must be retried for murder. The case may drag on for years to come.

One of the most disturbing aspects of this case, at least for me, was the savage outcry against Amanda on the Internet, which continues to this day. On March 29, 2013, as I was putting the final touches on this article, I conducted an experiment. I Googled “Amanda Knox” and got 7.1 million hits. I then tried “Amanda Knox” and “bitch,” which returned 1.7 million hits. “Amanda Knox” and “pervert” came back at 880,000 hits, and her name coupled with “slut” yielded 380,000. The quotations that opened this article were gathered in a few minutes of surfing.

The extreme viciousness of the anti-Amanda commentariage is startling. There are countless statements calling for the murdering, raping, torturing, throat-cutting, frying, hanging, electrocution, burning, and rotting in hell of Amanda, along with her sisters, family, friends, and supporters.

Why? And why in general are there so many savage, crazy, vicious, and angry people on the Internet?

I was drawn into the case by accident. While living in Florence, I teamed up with an Italian journalist, Mario Spezi, and wrote a book about Italy’s most notorious serial killer, known only as the Monster of Florence—a murderer so terrifying he makes Jack the Ripper look like Mister Rogers. Together Mario and I published a book about the case, The Monster of Florence.

Giuliano Mignini, the chief prosecutor in the Amanda Knox case, was also the prosecutor in the Monster case. We criticized Mignini in our book. He then did to me what he would do to Amanda a year later: He hauled me in for an interrogation with no attorney or interpreter present, accused me of being an accessory to murder, among other heinous crimes, and demanded I confess. He threw Spezi into prison and accused him of being the Monster of Florence. (Later the charges against us were dropped and Mignini was investigated for abuse of office.)

I began speaking out in favor of Amanda. My first foray was in a mild interview with the journalist Candace Dempsey on the website of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the local paper in Amanda’s hometown. I told of my experience with Mignini and said I thought Amanda was innocent.

Then the comments poured in. I was stunned at their ferociousness against Amanda. What surprised me also were the blazing personal attacks against me. They claimed I was exploiting a murder to sell books. They claimed that my interest in Amanda was sexual. They said I was mentally ill. They Photoshopped grotesque pictures of me and posted them. They created elaborate PowerPoint presentations that aimed to prove beyond all doubt what a contemptible, disgusting, racist, perverted, money-grubbing scumbag I truly was.

Like a fool I waded into the fray, defending Amanda and myself. I attacked my attackers and countered their criticisms. The more I fought, the more the tide of vituperation came back at me. Finally, I came to my senses and stopped. But I continued to defend Amanda on television and noticed that every time I appeared, the Internet exploded with more extreme attacks. I have no doubt that when this piece is published, the Amanda-haters will go incandescent once again. It made me wonder: Who are these people? Why would so many people, with no skin in the game, devote their time and energy to seeing this girl punished—and to vilifying all those who came to her defense?

I did some research. The anti-Amanda universe coalesced around three websites devoted to seeing her punished. The administrators of these sites and their followers were utterly and completely obsessed by hatred for Amanda. It had literally taken over their lives. The chief moderator of one, according to statistics on her profile, has blogged about Amanda an average of seven times per day, every day, for the past five years. The anti-Amanda writings of another add up to more words than the Bible, War and Peace, Finnegans Wake, TheIliad, and The Odyssey combined. Five years later, these websites are spewing more than ever.

The answer to this human behavior lies, as many such answers do, in evolutionary biology. Experiments show that when some people punish others, the reward part of their brain lights up like a Christmas tree. It turns out we humans avidly engage in something anthropologists call “altruistic punishment.”

What is altruistic punishment? It is when a person punishes someone who has done nothing against them personally but has violated what they perceive to be the norms of society. Why “altruistic”? Because the punisher is doing something that benefits society at large, with no immediate personal gain.

Altruistic punishment is normally a good thing. Our entire criminal justice system is based on it. In our evolutionary past, small groups of hunter-gatherers needed enforcers, individuals who took it upon themselves to punish slackers and transgressors to maintain group cohesion. We evolved this way. As a result, some people are born to be punishers. They are hard-wired for it.

What does all this have to do with Amanda Knox? Almost all the nasty comments about her follow a pattern. Even though AMANDA did nothing to them, they are all demanding her punishment. This is altruistic punishment gone haywire, in which the anti-Amanda bloggers have become a cybermob not unlike the witch-hunts of medieval Europe or lynch mobs in the American South.

These mobs form all over the Internet, and not just in the Amanda case, assailing everyone from Anne Hathaway to Katie Roiphe. Everywhere you look on the Internet you find self-appointed punishers at work. Never in human history has a system developed like the Internet, which allows for the free rein of our punishing instincts, conducted with complete anonymity, with no checks or balances, no moderation, and no accountability. On the Internet, our darkest evolutionary biology runs riot.

This piece was adapted from Trial by Fury, by Douglas Preston, available for download as a Kindle Single.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...do_people.html
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05-05-2015 , 09:23 PM
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ty ikasigh, now turn off your computer and never come back
No rep_lol, it's you who should never come back.

As sorry as I, and I'm sure I speak for all of the regular readers of this thread, will be to lose your posts, which shine like stars in a constellation of pure and unrivaled genius, the fact is that your unparalleled gifts are needed elsewhere.

As important as it is to continue to uphold the truth about the unvarnished and heinous guilt of Knox and Sollecito, you have touched so many with your eloquent and cogent arguments and those you have touched will carry on your legacy in this thread, and in the world at large, to counter the shills who, like common strumpets, sell out their morals and decency for filthy lucre's sake.

As important as it is to uphold the truth, as steadfastly as you have done so, and as admirable as your steadfastness is, this thread is too small for a man of your intellect and talent. You are needed elsewhere. For the benefit of all mankind, rep_lol, I beg you, as your true and loyal admirer, please step away and devote your talents elsewhere.

The world needs you rep_lol.
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05-05-2015 , 09:52 PM
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This has already been covered itt. Recordings weren't required in Italy or the US at the time, with many states in the US not requiring recordings today.
Don't you find it suspicious that the Defence never asked for any "recordings" to be presented in court? They simply requested that her statements be struck out. Reason being they knew she wasn't coerced. had recordings had have existed, they would have proven she wasn't coerced.
Right, so because they are not required to do this, that means we shouldn't care when they recorded the other interviews and easily had the capabilities to do so? They weren't required to tap both of their phones either, but they did. They were the prime suspects at this point, and while it is true that a lot of places do not require for the police to do so by law, a lot of places still do when they bring in their prime suspect obviously.

And no LOL.....I don't find it suspicious that their lawyers wanted them to strike the confession that was considered illegal by Italian law, and if such a recording existed, I guarantee it would be damaging to the prosecution/police.

You are simply devoid of all sense of logic.
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05-05-2015 , 10:06 PM
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Knox's footprints were found in the victim's blood and Guede was identified by a palm print, not a finger print. AK/RS left plenty of traces of themselves at the crime scene and lied with the same consistency as Guede. I can't believe your actual reasoning system here, seriously.
Her footprints tested negative for blood in the secondary (TMB) confirmation test for blood. They had all the available tools and latest technology to test the luminol hits to confirm if they were blood and they tested negative. You understand that this means that they (Knox's footprints) were not footprints in blood correct?

They tried to prove it was blood and they couldn't (because it wasnt!) and again, they had many other testing at their disposal including the very common TMB testing they did.

Besides, there are no traces of bare footprints of Amanda leading out of the room. If she killed or participated in the killing, obviously these would exist and they don't.

Really really sad you've spent years on this and actually believe she was walking around barefoot in Meredith's blood....****** hilarious.
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05-05-2015 , 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by 28renton
Of the 329 DNA exonerations thanks to the work of the Innocence Project, ~25% had falsely confessed. 1 in 4 seems like a lot to me.

link: http://www.innocenceproject.org/caus...-or-admissions
Yeah but that's just a percentage of exonerations. The vast vast vast majority of cases with confessions don't get overturned, so I'd wager that the percentage of false confessions as a whole have to be much closer to 0% than 25%.
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