Comment author: Sebastian_Hagen 12 December 2009 08:46:42PM 4 points [-]

I don't know what anyone else feels but the uncertainty of the case is somewhat disturbing. I wish there was a knockdown evidence and I could know the truth and be done with it instead of this restless search. Any else feeling that way?

Oh, definitely. This is a known bias; fight it.

Comment author: michellesings 26 April 2010 07:27:27AM 0 points [-]

injusticeinperugia.com has some current stuff

Comment author: AnlamK 10 December 2009 09:53:16PM *  4 points [-]

Would anyone actually be up for discussing the specifics of the case? (I don't know why but I find myself oddly interested in this case.)

As far as I can tell, the biggest pro-defendant evidence is that there is no major DNA evidence of Sollecito and Knox in the room where murder took place. We are told that there is a bra clasp with Sollecito's DNA and a knife that has both Amanda's and Kercher's DNA - both of these DNA traces are 'weak' in the sense that they are not that obvious, require a hefty search and are hard to see in lab. On the other hand, there are 'strong' traces of Guede's DNA in the victim's blood and in the room.

So, the first thing that worries me is that if it were a crime committed by three people, why would you have one person's DNA everywhere in the room and yet two others' only faintly there?

Again, this is the strongest pro-innocent (for Knox and Sollecito) argument that I have - and the one that convinces me most likely that Sollecito and Knox haven't done it.

I don't know - can anyone else site cases in which there was a group murder and yet only a single person left behind 'strong' traces of DNA? Maybe this isn't so unusual after all.

On the pro-guilty side, I must admit that I find Knox's and Sollecito's behavior the morning after the murder and during the investigation a bit strange. If 'Meredith was [her] friend', as Amanda Knox says in her trial, why were she doing cart-wheels during the investigation the morning after the murder? Shouldn't she be distraught and upset like all of other Meredith Kercher's friends? Accuse me of the mind projection fallacy but I feel like I would be distraught (and in a bad mood) even if the victim wasn't someone I knew.

But again, strange behavior isn't really an evidence. It's just something that makes one suspicious and raises uncertainty.

I can't find that many pro-guilty arguments. There are some tidbits that have a lot of uncertainty in them: i.e. Sollecito (allegedly) bought cleaning supplies the night of the murder allegedly again to clean up the murder mess, Sollecito claimed to be using the Internet at the time of the murder but his ISP records indicate otherwise, a woman claims to have heard three people running down that street that night.. etc. None of them as strong to make a case.

Besides these, a few other thoughts:

I really don't know how Sollecito and Knox got linked to this murder. How did they get dragged into this in the first place? Is there really evidence for the fact that it was a satanic sex-orgy gone wrong as the prosecutor claims it is? I mean, this satanic sex-orgy idea seems to be the prosecutor's imagination - there is no evidence for it.

Also, supposing Guede did it alone, would there be additional penalty or a reduction in penalty for him if he were to simply confess?

This whole thing seems to be like a backlash of conservative Italians' against whom they deem the immoral, selfish and arrogant youth. I have a hunch that the Italian prosecutor wants to punish Sollecito and Knox for a lifestyle he considers wrong.

I don't know what anyone else feels but the uncertainty of the case is somewhat disturbing. I wish there was a knockdown evidence and I could know the truth and be done with it instead of this restless search. Any else feeling that way?

Comment author: michellesings 26 April 2010 07:26:34AM 0 points [-]

Actually she was doing Yoga to calm herself. No lie.

Comment author: michellesings 26 April 2010 07:05:40AM 0 points [-]

I find it a very simple case with tons of evidence and tons of lack of evidence that point to freedom. And to something SERIOUSLY wrong somewhere. I love America, I love Italy, I love truth and hate injustice. Fact over opinion. Show many facts...

Comment author: michellesings 26 April 2010 06:54:53AM 0 points [-]

Your first paragraph was enough for me to halt. Consider the source. If what the internet is saying is more correct than what the Italians were told and innocently believe, as did I, then it's no waste of time at all. Some of the people on the internet are whack, some have studies hours and hours and hours with an open mind.