tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8948468210450906410.post5828294238763323499..comments2023-08-10T05:27:44.718-07:00Comments on Amanda Knox Appeal Forum: Judges Motivation Report Should Free Amanda KnoxUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8948468210450906410.post-48870800438376501472011-06-29T11:49:05.800-07:002011-06-29T11:49:05.800-07:00Running to the terrace to try to look inside is ad...Running to the terrace to try to look inside is admittedly a little weird, but if you read the court transcripts, Amanda was doing this while Raphaele was already on the phone to the police. And while she was doing this the postal police came by. It's not strange for panicked people who discovered a robbery to calm down when the authorities finally arrive and defer to their judgement about what to do. Again from the court documents, she was not "reassuring" the postal police to say her roommate's door was always locked. She simply commented that sometimes she does lock her door, which Amanda would be in a better position to know seeing how her room was right next door.<br /><br />In any case, this is all kind of ridiculous. To be so scheming and devious as the prosecution says as to make an almost perfect coverup, and be confident and collected enough to even call the police and walk them through, would require Amanda and Raphaele to be some kind of experienced criminals with highly controlled internal emotions. This does not fit with how they behave in general, which is that they are very open people with nothing in their background that would suggest such capabilities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8948468210450906410.post-38252318196953423422011-06-28T23:17:33.264-07:002011-06-28T23:17:33.264-07:00Come on, use a little logic, this is not damaging ...Come on, use a little logic, this is not damaging at all. Washing dishes means dinner beforehand? No, if you had dirty dishes, they could have been used for other things, preparing dinner, an earlier meal, etc., and they needed them for dinner. This is just an example of the many leaps of logic needed to make very ordinary things seem "incriminating" when they are not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8948468210450906410.post-8069476273767383062011-01-23T13:25:21.070-08:002011-01-23T13:25:21.070-08:00Thanks for the comment. First let me point out tha...Thanks for the comment. First let me point out that the motivation report is flawed big time- Even the appeals court judge is in agreement with that. In order to convict in Italy (as in the U S) there can not be a reasonable doubt. The motivation report is based on mostly speculation as the appeals court is aware -therefore the need to re-examine the evidence. One thing you missed that the motivation report addresses wrongly is that the testimony of the 'park bum' was believed and as a result seemed to place Amanda near the scene of the crime and made her alibi seem like a lie. However it is well known now that the park bum is really a drug dealer (since arrested) and was either not telling the truth or had the wrong evening as he used the disco buses running that night as a reference to what time it was - but it has since come to light that the disco buses were not running that night. Therefore the park bum's testimony is - out the window. In between that and the re-evaluation of key 'evidence- it should be enough to bring this court to overturn the conviction.Saint_Michael1https://www.blogger.com/profile/11845977849774519083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8948468210450906410.post-3707871378314218192011-01-22T18:20:42.909-08:002011-01-22T18:20:42.909-08:00I hope the appeal is more broad based than just th...I hope the appeal is more broad based than just the knife and the bra clasp because the Motivation report cites multiple threads of evidence. A single instance of deception by a suspect is damaging. I've logged 50-100 hours studying this case, just enough to scratch the surface, initially out of concern for injustice, but I keep running into facts that lead me in the opposite direction. I never believed that a murderer would put the murder weapon back in his kitchen drawer, but if the DNA evidence is refuted I don't think that overturns the verdict. There are other findings that are incriminating. Here are two rarely cited pieces of damaging evidence from the Motivation Report:<br /> from p.77: Francesco Sollecito also explained that, during the 8:42 pm call, his son mentioned "that while he was washing dishes he realised he had a water spill" (p. 45). This fact, which was also mentioned by Amanda Knox (who links it to the need to fetch the mop to dry up the floor), is relevant because it allows us to determine the time of dinner as being around 8:30 pm and before the call at 8:42 pm, in which Raffaele tells his father that while washing the dishes he had a leak from the sink.<br /> Therefore, the statements by Amanda Knox in which the hour of dinner is postponed until 10 pm or even 11 pm constitute an attempt to reduce insofar as possible the length of time devoid of activity that could be documented in some way, during the final hours of November 1, 2007, thus creating an alibi that could put her and Raffaele away from the Via della Pergola house where, precisely during that time, the murder of Meredith Kercher was being perpetrated.<br /> from p.91: In the already mentioned e-mail Amanda Knox thus writes: "... Filomena's door was closed but when I opened it I saw that her room was in a mess and that the window was open and completely broken ... convinced that we had been robbed I went to Laura's room and looked quickly in, but it was spotless I checked my room for things missing, which there were not. Then I knocked on Meredith's bedroom door. At first I thought she was asleep, so I knocked gently, but when she didn't respond, I knocked louder and louder until I was really banging on her door and shouting her name. No response. Panicking I ran out to the terrace to see if I could see inside. Raffaele told me he wanted to see if he could break down Meredith's door. He tried and the door was cracked but we couldn't open it. It was then that we decided to call the police... At first Raffaele called his sister for advice, and then called the police. I then called Filomena who said she would be on her way home immediately. While we were waiting, two plaincloths policemen came to our house. I showed them what I could and told them what I knew.<br /> In this email, Meredith's locked door therefore acquires a central importance... Amanda cannot help but give central importance to this locked door and writes, therefore, that this fact induced her to run to the terrace, and to position herself on the window ledge to see if she could see something, and writes that this door being locked created in her a state of absolute panic, she "was panicking" and continues, writing that Raffaele tried to break down the door but couldn't open it, which is how they came to decide to call the police("It was then that we decided to call the police"),as well as to call Romanelli and tell her to come to the house.<br /> Yet when the Postal Police arrived, the panic caused by that locked door was not expressed in any way...<br /> I'd personally like to see Amanda and Raffaele exonerated but the Motivation Report sets the bar higher. Btw, my read of the court transcript so far shows Massei to be considerate of Amanda and able to process and summarize complex considerations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com