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Originally Posted by auralex14
Perhaps from your perspective. The better question for most people is whether or not AK and RS were guilty or innocent.
Courts can simply get it wrong. They can even get it wrong while not committing any procedural error. Since you were incapable of debating the evidence, you shifted the burden and demanded something that was ultimately irrelevant wrt to AK and RS's factual innocence. Also, when you mention 'incomplete facts,' what were the courts privy to that the public doesn't know?
Again, bizarrely, that's what interests you. Most everyone else cares whether or not they were guilty/innocent.
That is odd, considering the long-standing refrain from 239 and co. that their legal guilt or innocence had no bearing on their opinion. They were only concerned with whether they did it.
As it turns out, the Court decision appears to suggest RS and AK likely did commit the crime, but that the proof does not amount to a guilty verdict.
We did debate evidence, you just were not paying attention.
For example: the 112 calls. The Massei court never really ruled on this (my guess is that the Court did not find it that important). However, 239 et al. used this non-ruling as a positive statement that RS made the 112 call before the postal police arrived.
That was not the case: The Court can rule on a point, rule against a point, or ignore a point. Ignoring a point is not the same as ruling against. Since that point was not decided, there was a legitimate debate as to what facts were presented and how those formed a timeline.
I guess it would surprise you that the pro-AK side tended to provide doctored facts to support their position.
As opposed to: Time of Death. This was an utterly pointless exercise as the court ruled all the testimony was not reliable enough to provide anything beyond a range; that was after hearing from numerous experts. Yet, the pro-Knox camp was insistent on arguing this point because it supported a potential alibi by AK (which I remind you in the final Report becomes moot because Cassation accepts AK was at the apartment when the murder took place). Anyhow, not to beat a dead horse, but the pro-AK arguments of "fact" were really just restatements of defense arguments which were rejected at trial.
So, if you find rejected defense arguments presented in a vacuum more compelling than a decision which weighed all arguments, then I suggest that speaks more to your deficiencies than anything else.
Anyhow, finding facts is the province of the jury. I don't care if you find the jury to be a superior means to decide facts in a murder case, or not. Just understand that most reasonable people find that a jury is more qualified to rule on these issues than anonymous internet people.
So, with all things being the same, I find it more reasonable to defer to the jury. Should there have been an error made in the process, I believe it would then be appropriate to reassess.
The fact of the matter is that in this case (especially) the jury had far more information than the general public - especially those outside of Italy. If you cannot see that, well, that speaks more to your deficiencies than anything else.
Oddly enough, once more reliable English translations started to appear on primary documents, the pro-AK people started shifting their arguments away from those and into documents that were not widely translated. Hmm, I wonder why.
From day one, debate over this case has been more about finding out just what information is reliable than anything else. Once the information started becoming reliable, the Knox camp rapidly lost ground.
Anyhow, yes, a Court can get things wrong. Yes, a jury can make a mistake in finding facts. However, generally when arguing that such happened, one actually points out the mistake and offers proper proof of the true fact. That was not done here from the pro-AK side.
If you want to see how the process of challenging a Court ruling is properly done, read Henry's posts about the Hellman verdict. That should provide you with a robust framework for tacking these sorts of problems.