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Originally Posted by javadog
Where'd you hear that?
JR
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Most likely from the prosecution, via the blogosphere.
Seriously, anyone who has done some due diligence can see for themselves that the prosecution has fabricated at least three different scenarios to put Knox and Sollecito at the scene and give them a motive. Each and every one has been shown to be impossible to have occurred, and are unsupported by any witness testimony or physical evidence, yet they persist largely because they are now in the internet ether.
We need to understand here in the U.S. that the Italian justice system allows for conviction based on things other than evidence--it allows for conviction based on the "totality of the story" or, in other words, the impression one gets from the
theory of how the crime was committed. It doesn't matter that every bit of prosecution theory and every witness account was destroyed by the defense. It doesn't matter if the defense provided solid, universally accepted evidence that the two
could not have been present during the murder. What the Italian system allows is for all that to be weighed
equally with the "impression" of who the suspects are, how they live their lives, and the "possibility" that any number of bizarre murder scenarios "could happen."
Look at the actual testimony. Look at the prosecution's evidence that was presented in court (not leaked to the press before and during the trials.) Look at the defense arguments presented in court. Look at the defense analyses of physical evidence. If this case was in the U.S., it would never reach the indictment stage and the prosecutor would likely be removed from his position and disbarred. But, this is Italy.