Monkey Trial

Thank goodness someone NOT influenced by Knox's family finally wrote an article about this case. I lived in Italy during the time of the murder and since returning home to the states I have been outraged at the bias media coverage thus far.
Applause to you Ms. Nadeau for bringing up such great points about the weak defense.

I'm not sure why some people try to claim that pointing out the flaws in news coverage (this Newsweek reporter is obviously extremely biased and can't get her facts straight) and flaws in the prosecution is somehow attacking Meredith Kercher's family in any way. It's the "woe is me, won't anyone think of the victim?" card. There are a lot of victims here: Kercher, Knox, Sollecito, all of their families and a basic regard for the truth.

Ms. Nadeau continues to take a serious trial and turn it into tabliod.l. 1.l Miagini has a bone to pick and has chosen once again to build a case on conspiracy. Like the Nadesco trial he linked a probable overdose or perhaps suicide drowning to the Red Rose Cult surrounding the Monster of Florence Case. 2. Kershcer was most likely drugged and raped by Rudy, who then literally took a ***. For good measure he threw in the race card and then split to Germany. They ONLY people who have built this macabre sexual theory are the very ones who furnished another sexual conspiracy: the cabarnari and Mr. Miagini.

Has everyone except Meredith's family lost sight of the fact that we are talking about the loss of a young girl's life? While I realize the disdain the Knox family has for the Italian judicial system, surely they can restrain themselves from further mockery for the sake of not only their daughter/sister, but yes even for the sake of decorum itself. This is in fact, not a circus, it is a courtroom. Perhaps when it resumes your family will conduct itself accordingly. May I also suggest that until such time, that while you tour the sights of Italy, you do so with restraint, in dress, word, and deed. It can only bode well for Amanda and that is your goal n'est pas?

It seems to me that Italy (and this author) are overly preoccupied with everything but the actual facts of the case that prove or disprove guilt. Quit worrying about what people are wearing in court, how they are acting and photo shoots. Ummm, there's actually a trial taking place!

Bremner went to Puget Sound school of law which might explain why she can't grasp a simple concept: there were THREE (3) ATTACKERS here (Amanda, her knife-collecting boyfriend of 6 days, & Rudy Guede - a pal of her housemates), and there was, not surprisingly, MORE THAN ONE KNIFE.

The 'double DNA knife' found tucked away in the apartment of Amanda's boyfriend IS, according to expert testimony given at trial, compatible with many of the victim's wounds. In light of the 'law of accessory,' what does it matter that this knife was not the most lethal of the KNIVES (2 or more) that were used on poor Meredith that night. Indeed, what does it matter what Amanda's Seattle lawyer-for-hire thinks?

(After all, her moral judgment is deficient enough to allow her to justify acting as a post-conviction PR representative for child rapist Mary Kay Letourneau.)

Considering the evidence submitted at trial (which, in addition to the damning DNA evidence implicating Amanda & her boyfriend, includes Amanda's intentional accusation of an innocent black man in order to exculpate herself), I certainly would never allow my daughter to room with Amanda Knox. Honestly, would YOU?

This is a bizarre and insane situation. She is being railroaded. This trial is worthy of a third world banana republic with an oppressive dictatorship.

Posted By: Crimson_H @ 07/18/2009 5:03:30 PM

"Regardless of the role "intuition" played in the initial collection of the knife, subsequent DNA testing proved the knife was not only important evidence, but damning evidence."

It's not the intuition that's the main problem (although it certainly is a big problem). It's the fact that only one knife was taken from a drawer full of knives. If all of the knives had been tested, as they should have, some of the rest of them could have held the DNA of the victim or of any number of people. Scientifically, that would rule out that THE knife that was chosen was suspicious.

"Further, Judge Micheli's 'sentencing ratio' on Amanda's co-accused, Rudy Guede, is not "speculative" - it is a verdict based on findings of fact."

It still doesn't mention cell towers.

" (This was a trial by judge rather than by jury and, as such, Judge Micheli was THE trier of fact)".

Facts aren't tried; facts are facts. Charges are tried, but they don't change facts.

"On the subject of legal facts, when I am listing evidence that (according to US news sources) has been submitted at trial by the prosecution, it is self-evident that I am not representing this evidence as fact because the trial is still in progress. Indeed, closing arguments will not be heard until this fall."

It is not self-evident in the least that you are presenting evidence when you state your ideas about cell towers and knives without explaining that these are your opinions or the prosecution's evidence.

Wow! Is there no one in this family with any common sense.? Why are these girls being allowed to go on TV and do interviews? They are young girls with no idea what they are talking about and obviously have no idea of the negative message they are sending! Where are the parents, Kurt and Edda, in all of thiis? Has no one told them that laughing in court, doing interviews in tank tops and short shorts and having all around crappy attitudes is not helping? It's hard for us back here in West Seattle to keep defending Amanda and her family when all we see is this lack of sensetivity to the big picture!

Amanda & her boyfriend turned off their cell phones simultaneously before murdering Meredith so that their phones would not 'ping' cell towers near the cottage, which would place them at the murder scene.

They turned their phones 'on' again the next morning, when they were back at the boyfriend's apartment, away from the murder scene.

Unfortunately for them, however, they brought one of the knives they used with them and didn't scrub it down with enough bleach to remove all of Meredith's DNA from the blade. Busted.

Saavedra wrote: "...A reader stated cell phones were turned off and cell phone were thrown into a neighbor's yard...Rather than attacking the reader for not distinguishing which were turned off and which were thrown away from Kerchner (so she couldn't call for help) the Seattle Reader should examen these facts....."

Actually, the reader stated "....the cell phones that not only were turned on and off at the same time but were found thrown into a Perugian yard..." which is different from what you said the reader stated.

I did not attack the reader. I stated he is not qualified to comment on the case, because he appears not to know the facts.

You don't seem to know them, either. At no time did the prosecution even suggest that anyone other than Guede threw the cell phones into the neighbor's yard.