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Re: Italy sets March appeal for Amanda Knox acquittal

harryrag — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:10:20 -0000

The announcement that the case will be heard at the Italian Supreme Court next year is a timely reminder for those people who seem to think Judge Hellmann’s verdict is the end of the story and Knox and Sollecito are out of the woods.

Re: Hyperlocal News & Opinion Around the World | GroundReport

harryrag — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:55:15 -0000

The computer forensic evidence provides irrefutable proof that Knox and Sollecito lied repeatedly. This evidence wasn't reviewed at the appeal. Neither was the mixed blood evidence. According to the prosecution's experts, there were five instances of Knox's DNA or blood mixed with Meredith's blood in three different locations in the cottage. Even Amanda Knox's lawyers conceded that her blood had mingled with Meredith's blood. In other words, Meredith and Amanda Knox were both bleeding at the same time.

Re: Hyperlocal News & Opinion Around the World | GroundReport

harryrag — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:43:31 -0000

Conti and Vecchiotti never proved there had been any contamination. Alberto Intini, the head of the Italian police forensic science unit, pointed out that unless contamination has been proved, it doesn’t exist. They didn’t carry out a new test on the knife despite the fact they were specifically instructed to do so and there are a number of laboratories that have the technology to carry out the test. According to Dr Giovanni Galati, Judge Hellmann acted illegally when appointed Conti and Vecchiotti and he should have allowed the prosecution to introduce evidence to the contrary. This will be two of the main reasons why the Italian Supreme Court will invalidate or revoke Hellmann's verdict.

Re: Hyperlocal News & Opinion Around the World | GroundReport

harryrag — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:53:22 -0000

Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito gave completely different accounts of where they were, who they were with and what they were doing on the night of the murder. Neither Knox nor Sollecito have credible alibis despite three attempts each. All the other people who were questioned had one credible alibi that could be verified. Innocent people don't give multiple conflicting alibis and lie repeatedly to the police.

Re: Meredith Kercher's father makes plea to her murderer - London News

harryrag — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:33:46 -0000

The evidence against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito is overwhelming. They gave completely different accounts of where they were, who they were with and what they were doing on the night of the murder. Neither Knox nor Sollecito have credible alibis despite three attempts each. All the other people who were questioned had one credible alibi that could be verified. Innocent people don't give multiple conflicting alibis and lie repeatedly to the police.

The DNA didn't miraculously deposit itself in the most incriminating of places.

An abundant amount of Raffaele Sollecito's DNA was found on Meredith's bra clasp. His DNA was identified by two separate DNA tests. Of the 17 loci tested in the sample, Sollecito’s profile matched 17 out of 17. Professor Novelli pointed out there's more likelihood of meteorite striking the courtroom in Perguia than there is of the bra clasp being contaminated by dust.

According to Sollecito's forensic expert, Professor Vinci, and Luciano Garofano, Knox's DNA was on Meredith's bra.

Amanda Knox's DNA was found on the handle of the double DNA knife and a number of independent forensic experts - Dr. Patrizia Stefanoni, Dr. Renato Biondo and Professor Francesca Torricelli - categorically stated that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade. Sollecito knew that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade which is why he twice lied about accidentally pricking her hand whilst cooking.

According to the prosecution's experts, there were five instances of Knox's DNA or blood mixed with Meredith's blood in three different locations in the cottage. Even Amanda Knox's lawyers conceded that her blood had mingled with Meredith's blood.Knox tracked Meredith's blood into the bathroom, the hallway, her room and Filomena's room, where the break-in was staged. Knox's DNA and Meredith's blood was found mixed together in Filomena's room, in a bare bloody footprint in the hallway and in three places in the bathroom.

Rudy Guede's bloody footprints led straight out of Meredith's room and out of the house. This means that he didn't stage the break-in in Filomena's room or go into the blood-spattered bathroom after Meredith had been stabbed.The bloody footprint on the blue bathmat in the bathroom matched the precise characteristics of Sollecito’s foot, but couldn’t possibly belong to Guede. Knox's and Sollecito's bare bloody footprints were revealed by luminol in the hallway.

It's not a coincidence that the three people - Knox, Sollecito and Guede - who kept telling the police a pack of lies are all implicated by the DNA and forensic evidence.

Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she was involved in Meredith's murder in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007. After she was informed that Sollecito was no longer providing her with an alibi, she stated on at least four separate occasions that she was at the cottage when Meredith was killed. At the trial, Sollecito refused to corroborate Knox's alibi that she was at his apartment.

Knox accused an innocent man, Diya Lumumba, of murdering Meredith despite the fact she knew he was completely innocent. She didn't recant her false and malicious allegation against Lumumba the whole time he was in prison. She admitted that it was her fault that Lumumba was in prison in an intercepted conversation with her mother on 10 November 2007.

Re: AMANDA KNOX: RUNNING SCARED? | GroundReport

harryrag — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:31:38 -0000

According to a number of DNA experts, Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede left their DNA on Meredith's bra. It's not coincidence that all three of them told the police a pack of lies.

Re: AMANDA KNOX: RUNNING SCARED? | GroundReport

harryrag — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:11:39 -0000

You've been manipulated and misinformed by the FOA PR campaign regarding Mignini. He didn't single-handedly orchestrate the prosecution and conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.You are clearly ignorant of the fact that four prosecutors, including the Chief and Deputy Chief Prosecutors of Umbria, have been involved in this case.

Bear in mind Knox and Sollecito became suspects before Mignini had spoken to Knox. He didn't even question Sollecito. Over 30 judges, including two panels of judges at the Italian Supreme Court, and a number of distinguished forensic experts think that Knox and Sollecito were involved in Meredith's murder. Amanda Knox herself voluntarily admitted her involvement in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007.

Anyone who thinks that an abundant amount of Sollecito's DNA floated on a speck of dust and landed on Meredith's bra clasp instantly deserves a Darwin Award. Ditto for anyone who thinks there is an innocent explanation for the pack of lies that Knox and Sollecito told.

Re: Father of Meredith Kercher to release book about loss of his daughter, quest for justice - Daily Journal

harryrag — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:36:11 -0000

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:34:58 -0000

@Robtalt,

Diya Lumumba has repeatedly denied that he was physically mistreated or verbally abused by the police in interviews with Italian newspapers and on Italian television programmes. He blamed the wrong report on the mistranslation and misinterpretation of his words.

Amanda Knox told Filomena that she had already phoned the police. Sollecito called the police at 12.51pm and 12.54pm. Knox's conversations with Filomena were before these calls. The last conversation between Amanda Knox and Filomena was at 12.34pm and it lasted 48 seconds.

According to multiple witnesses, Amanda Knox categorically stated that Meredith always locked her door:

"This last circumstance, downplayed by Amanda, who said that even when she went to the bathroom for a shower Meredith always locked the door to her room (see declarations of Marco Zaroli, page 180, hearing of February 6, 2009 and declarations of Luca Altieri, page 218, hearing of February 6, 2009), had alarmed Ms. Romanelli more. She said she was aware of only once, when she had returned to England and had been away for a few days, that Meredith had locked the door of her room. (This circumstance was confirmed by Laura Mezzetti, page 6, hearing of February 14, 2009). (The Massei report, page 31).

I have the telephone records from the prosecution's file. Amanda Knox's telephone call to Meredith's mobile phone lasted three seconds. It is also mentioned in the Massei report:

"12:11:02 (3 seconds) the Vodafone number 348-4673711 belonging to Meredith..." (The Massei report, page 323).

The fact that Amanda Knox didn't tell Filomena that she had already called Meredith's mobile phone a minute earlier is hugely significant:

"...Amanda called Romanelli, to whom she started to detail what she had noticed in the house (without, however, telling her a single word about the unanswered call made to Meredith, despite the question expressly put to her by Romanelli)..." (The Massei report, page 387).

Barbie Nadeau has reported on several occasions that Amanda Knox turned on her mobile phone at approximately 6.00am on 2 November 2007.

Diya Lumumba sent his text message to Amanda Knox at 8.18pm.

Amanda Knox was questioned for approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes, so you can't claim that she was exhausted or confused.

You have no credible evidence or corroborative testimony to support your claim that Amanda Knox's confession was coerced. You weren't present when Amanda Knox was questioned, so you don't know how the police treated her or what they said to her. You are not in a position to give an authoritative account of what happened.

Raffaele Sollecito was confronted with telephone records that proved he had lied to the police. He then dramatically changed his story and claimed that Knox left his apartment at about 9.00pm and returned at around 1.00am. At the trial, Sollecito refused to corroborate Knox's alibi. Incidentally, Sollecito's new alibi turned out to be false. He has no credible alibi despite three attempts.

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:52:05 -0000

Diya Lumumba has publicly denied ever making the comments you have attributed to him.

Here are some of Amanda Knox's lies:

She told Filomena that she had already phoned the police. Knox's mobile phone records prove that this was untrue.

She told the postal police that Meredith always kept her door locked. Filomena strongly disagreed with her, and told the postal police the opposite was true.

Knox claimed that when she called Meredith’s Italian phone it “just kept ringing, no answer”. Her mobile phone records show this call lasted just three seconds.

In her email to friends in on 4 November 2007, Amanda Knox claimed she called Meredith’s phones after speaking to Filomena. Knox’s mobile phone records prove that this was untrue.

Knox told the police that she woke up late on the morning of 2 November 2007. Her mobile phones records show that she turned on her mobile phone at approximately 6.00am.

She told the police that she didn't text Diya Lumumba on the night of the murder.

She told the police that she met Diya Lumumba at the basketball at Piazza Grimana.

Knox told the police that Diya Lumumba killed Meredith. She repeated this false and malicious allegation on at least three separate occasions. She didn't recant this accusation the whole time Lumumba was in prison.

She told the police that she was at Raffaele Sollecito's apartment on the night of the murder. However, Sollecito claimed that she went out at about 9.00pm and returned at around 1.00am. Sollecito refused to corroborate Knox's alibi at the trial.

She claimed that she was hit by a police officer when she was questioned on 5 November 2007. All the witnesses were present, including her interpreter, testified under oath that she was treated well and wasn't hit.

Knox gave different reasons for writing her handwritten confession.

Knox's different accounts of seeing the blood in the bathroom contradict each other.

She kept changing the time of dinner on the night of the murder, putting it progressively back. She gave at least three different times for when she and Sollecito had dinner.

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:29:55 -0000

@Robalt,

Multiple witnesses have testified that Amanda Knox was treated well and wasn't hit.

Amanda Knox is not a credible witness. She lied to Filomena and the postal police on 2 November 2007. She lied to her friends in an e-mail on 4 November 2007. She repeatedly lied to the police in the days following Meredith's murder. Computer and mobile phone records provide irrefutable proof that Amanda Knox's various accounts of what happened on 1 and 2 November 2007 are untrue. Raffaele Sollecito admitted that he had lied to the police and he said Knox had asked him to lie.

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:50:42 -0000

Hillary Clinton, the US Department of State, the American embassy in Rome and Amnesty International won't be intervening in the case because they all think Amanda Knox was involved in Meredith's murder.

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:47:13 -0000

@Alan,

Multiple witnesses testified at the trial that Amanda Knox's was taking drugs. This information is on page 62 of the Massei report.

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:30:13 -0000

@Rachel,

If you haven't been following the case, why are you assuming Amanda Knox is innocent?

Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she was involved in Meredith's murder in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007. Knox admitted in court that nobody made her write this note or suggested what to write. She even asked for a pen and paper to write this confession.

After Knox was informed that Sollecito was no longer providing her with an alibi, she stated on at least four separate occasions that she was at the cottage when Meredith was killed. She was questioned for approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes on 5 November 2007.

All the witnesses who were present when Amanda Knox was questioned, including her interpreter, testified under oath that she was treated well and wasn't hit. The judges and jury had to decide whether to believe the corroborative testimony of numerous upstanding witnesses or the word of a someone who had lied repeatedly. It would have been an easy decision to make.

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:46:29 -0000

@Robalt,

You weren't present when Amanda Knox was questioned. You are not in a position to give an authoritative account of what happened. All the witnesses who were actually present when Knox was questioned have testified under oath that she was at no stage put under pressure or physically mistreated. These witnesses include the interpreters.

I asked you to support your claim that the evidence collection and DNA analysis were examples of "bad forensics". You still haven't given one example of this. Anyone can make unsubstantiated claims.

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:34:30 -0000

@Robalt,

Amanda Knox was questioned for approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes. This is hardly an "exhausting interrogation".

You weren't present when Amanda Knox was questioned, so you don't know that she was yelled at, called a liar or was told the police had proof she was at the cottage when Meredith was murdered. You're relying on the word of a compulsive liar who has lied repeatedly to the police, her family and friends.

Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she was involved in Meredith's murder in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007. This note wasn't thrown out by the Italian Supreme Court. It was accepted as evidence by Judge Massei. Amanda Knox even asked for a pen and paper to write this confession.

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:33:18 -0000

@Robalt,

Amanda Knox's questioning on 5 November 2007 was not illegal and no court has ever ruled that it was. The police weren't required to record Knox's interrogation because she was questioned as a witness and not as a suspect. She was questioned from approximately 11.00pm to 1.45am. Her questioning was stopped at 1.45am when she became a suspect and she wasn't questioned again that night.

You haven't support your claim that the evidence collection and DNA analysis were examples of "bad forensics".

There was an independent review of the forensic evidence in 2008. Dr. Renato Biondo, the head of the DNA unit of the scientific police, reviewed Dr. Stefanoni’s investigation and the forensic findings. He testified at Rudy Guede’s fast track trial in October 2008 and confirmed that all the forensic findings were accurate and reliable.

He also praised the work of Dr. Stefanoni and her team:

“We are confirming the reliability of the information collected from the scene of the crime and at the same time, the professionalism and excellence of our work.”

As I've already pointed out, prosecutors in America, Britain and Italy don't have to prove motive. One of the reasons for this is that no-one apart from the murderer or murderers ever really knows for definite why they killed their victim.

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:05:09 -0000

@Robalt,

Do you have any actual evidence that Rudy Guede carried out burglaries and dealt drugs?

At the moment, you're relying on hearsay.

It is an established fact that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were using drugs:

"Both Amanda and Raffaele were using drugs; there are multiple corroborating statements to this effect (page19, statements of Romanelli, hearing of February 7, 2009; statements of Mezzetti, hearing of February 14, 2009; page 164, hearing of March 27, 2009, statements of Antonio Galizia, Carabinieri [C.ri] station commander in Giovinazzo, who testified that in September 2003 Raffaele Sollecito was found in possession of 2.67 grams of hashish; in the tapped intercepts, Amanda had several times made reference to marijuana use)." (The Massei report, page 62).

At the trial, Mignini stated that Knox and Sollecito ran with a crowd who took stupefying drugs. Amanda Knox's contact with a drug dealer before and after Meredith's murder indicates that she was buying drugs. The Perugia police don't know that Knox never used cocaine. Cocaine can leave someone's system after three days.

Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she was involved in Meredith's murder.

Did she lie when she made this claim?

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:23:12 -0000

@Robalt,

Renowned psychologist Dr. Coline Covington wrote the following about Amanda Knox:

“Knox’s narcissistic pleasure at catching the eye of the media and her apparent nonchalant attitude during most of the proceedings show the signs of a psychopathic personality. Her behaviour is hauntingly reminiscent of Eichmann’s arrogance during his trial for war crimes in Jerusalem in 1961 and most recently of Karadzic’s preening before the International Criminal Court at the Hague."

Leading criminologist Professor David Wilson compared Knox to Rosemary West:

“She was rather like a gap-year Rose West. I believe she was naive and got caught up in a very different world, which she embraced enthusiastically.”

Rudy Guede did not have a criminal record at the time of Meredith's murder. Amanda Knox is the only one of the three who had a record. She was charged with hosting a party that got seriously out of hand, with students high on drink and drugs throwing rocks into the road, forcing cars to swerve. She was fined $269 (£135) at the Municipal Court after the incident: Crime No: 071830624.

In case you didn't know, it's possible to contact someone without using a mobile phone. It should also be noted that Amanda Knox's mobile phone records show that she was in contact with a cocaine dealer before and after Meredith's murder. This was reported in the Italian media:

"The police arrived at the pusher through the mobile phone numbers found in the list stored on Amanda’s phone. The calls between the two handsets would have taken place [intercorse] in the days prior to and following the murder of Mez, giving rise, therefore, to a deeper understanding that led to the discovery of a drug ring for university students and professionals. A trafficking for which a case file was opened, involving three young men as the main leads (one being hypothesized as the American’s supplier and lover).

"In particular, there is a police note [informativa] appended to the file in which it is emphasised “during the course of investigative activity relating to criminal proceedings 9066/07 (that for the homicide of Kercher – editor) it was ascertained that an Italian person … [ellipsis in original] had occasionally supplied Amanda Knox with stupefying substance [i.e., narcotics ], as well as presumably having had relations of a sexual nature with her”. (ASCA, 14 January 2011).

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:39:04 -0000

@Alan,

You wrote:

"I asked you two give me ten reasons, but there again you your self went back to the Judge Mignini report.
After reading the report I think Judge Mignini thinks that Amanda and Raffaele are innocent due to the fact thier are two many holes in the report and no motive."

You really need to get your facts straight. It was Judge Massei who wrote the sentencing report.

Prosecutors in America, England and Italy don't have to prove motive. There have been a number of high-profile cases where "nice" women have committed horrific murders with little or no motive. For example, Laurie Ann Swank, Karla Homolka, Kelly Ellard and Erika de Nardo. Judge Massei believes the motive was sexual erotic violence and that Knox and Sollecito were acting under the influence of drugs.

Re: Setback for Knox appeal

harryrag — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:12:46 -0000

According to Sollecito's forensic expert, Professor Vinci, Knox's DNA was also on Meredith's bra.

There were five instances of Knox's DNA mixed with Meredith's blood in three different locations in the cottage.

Knox tracked Meredith's blood into the bathroom, the hallway, her room and Filomena's room, where the break-in was staged. Knox's DNA and Meredith's blood was found mixed together in Filomena's room, in a bare bloody footprint in the hallway and in three places in the bathroom.

The bloody footprint on the blue bathmat in the bathroom matched the precise characteristics of Sollecito’s foot, but couldn’t possibly belong to Guede. Knox's and Sollecito's bare bloody footprints were revealed by luminol in the hallway.

Re: Amanda Knox Story: Hayden Panettiere Stars in Lifetime Movie

harryrag — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:28:49 -0000

The DNA didn't miraculously deposit itself in the most incriminating of places.

According to Sollecito's forensic expert, Professor Vinci, Knox's DNA was on Meredith's bra.

There were five instances of Knox's DNA mixed with Meredith's blood in three different locations in the cottage.

It's not a coincidence that the three people - Knox, Sollecito and Guede - who kept telling the police a pack of lies are all implicated by the DNA and forensic evidence.

The English translation of the Massei report can be downloaded from here:

http://www.perugiamurderfil...

Re: The Daily Weekly - Curtis Cartier - Amanda Knox Movie Set to Air Tonight in Front of Millions of Disapproving Viewers

harryrag — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:51:20 -0000

Why don't you address the evidence that I have listed instead of pretending it doesn't exist?

Re: The Daily Weekly - Curtis Cartier - Amanda Knox Movie Set to Air Tonight in Front of Millions of Disapproving Viewers

harryrag — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:36:13 -0000

The DNA didn't miraculously deposit itself in the most incriminating of places.

According to Sollecito's forensic expert, Professor Vinci, Knox's DNA was on Meredith's bra.

There were five instances of Knox's DNA mixed with Meredith's blood in three different locations in the cottage.

It's not a coincidence that the three people - Knox, Sollecito and Guede - who kept telling the police a pack of lies are all implicated by the DNA and forensic evidence.

Re: AMANDA KNOX: MURDER ON TRIAL (Lifetime Movie) Starring Hayden Panettiere

harryrag — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:43:47 -0000

The DNA didn't miraculously deposit itself in the most incriminating of places.

According to Sollecito's forensic expert, Professor Vinci, Knox's DNA was on Meredith's bra.

There were five instances of Knox's DNA mixed with Meredith's blood in three different locations in the cottage.

It's not a coincidence that the three people - Knox, Sollecito and Guede - who kept telling the police a pack of lies are all implicated by the DNA and forensic evidence.