How can someone have a premonition about something that has already happened??????? OOOOOhhhh Wait!! Now I understand. I think I'm having one right now. I........see two tall buildings..........in a city with a lot of people..............I see an airplane flying rather low in the sky...............it looks as though it's heading straight for the side of the building..................OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH...........NNNNNOOOOOOo............it hit the building. Somebody better call every city with a lot of people and tell them to look out for low flying airplanes heading for tall buildings.
This lawyer can't be for real.
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About the knife: you believe that the DNA on the "alleged murder weapon" has only a 20 percent DNA match to Meredith?
There is no chance that that's the murder weapon. First of all, they held on to it because Amanda's DNA is on the handle and Meredith's DNA is on the blade. That statement standing alone is pretty bad for Amanda Knox. Amanda's DNA is on the handle because she was in Raffaele's apartment many times over the course of a month, and her DNA was on many of the utensils in that apartment. She cooked there.
So why was Meredith's DNA on it?
Meredith's DNA on the blade of that knife would be a huge problem if that knife were in Raffaele's apartment, since there is no evidence that Meredith had ever been to that apartment. So it looked like they took the knife to the crime scene and took it back. But there is only a 20 percent chance that it's Meredith's DNA, and that's not enough to take into a courtroom. And it's not [from] blood. I don't know whose DNA it is on the knife, but there is one thing that would be certain: if that were the murder weapon given this bloody murder, there would be blood on that knife. You can't get that much blood off a knife.
From what you've seen, what are the chances of a conviction against any of the suspects?
I think the chances of a conviction against Rudy are very high … The evidence puts him at that scene before and after the murder. Clearly, he's got some problems.
Both Amanda and Raffaele have admitted to being users of marijuana. What role does admitted drug use play in the Italian legal system? Is admitting drug use part of a strategy for the defense?
It's relevant and it's certainly something that's going to come into the trial if there is a trial. It could chop away at the premeditation aspect of a case. I think what they are trying to do is explain away some inconsistencies in their stories, in their recollections. So instead of saying, "He lied," it's a little easier to rely on "He was high" and that's why he doesn't really recall. But the drugs really don't give you an answer to what happened. You could have been stoned and did what you did, or alert and did what you did, as far as a murder is concerned. It may go to the voluntariness or to the premeditation.
What about the release of these
prison diaries
from Amanda and Raffaele. Is that part of some strategy?
Any case like this is permeated by leaks. This is a perfect storm of a case for the media. You have sex, you have drugs, you have attractive young women. You have a gruesome murder in a setting that no one would expect to find. So you have really a frenzy to try to get the story, to get something new, to try to get something first.
Where does the case stand now? Do you think they will be remanded in custody?
[On] April 1 they go back to court to determine whether the appellate court will release or hold the suspects. Yes, the bar is pretty low, so sure, they'll keep them. I think that the prosecution and the defense are trying to work something out as far as Amanda is concerned. There has been some talk about a house-arrest scenario.
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