wedrifid comments on The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 19 December 2009 10:30:36AM 0 points [-]

I've read elsewhere this was a manual rape - still leaves DNA inside but not necc. semen.

Manual rape? I'm not familiar with that term and a meaning fitting those criteria (DNA but not semen) isn't obvious. I can only assume that 'manual' refers to, well, the last part of it. I wouldn't have expected that kind of rape if murder was going to be on the cards and I would also expect semen around somewhere, showing up with luminol. So perhaps something else is meant.

Comment author: anonym 19 December 2009 09:18:11PM 2 points [-]

One meaning of 'manual' is 'of or relating to the hands'. I'm guessing that's what's meant here.