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In reply to the discussion: Amanda Knox should surrender to Italian authorities, The EVIDENCE Is Clear Enough- SHE DID IT. [View all]pnwmom
(110,233 posts)work on his computers during the time frame, but the police "fried" all the hard drives, and the court refused to allow testing by the defense.
This is what Judge Hellman, who report the report for the first appeals trial, had to say about the verdict:
http://groundreport.com/amanda-knox-raffaele-sollecito-and-the-chamber-of-horrors/
The Supreme Court has ruled on matters of evidence and detail and has not restricted itself to considering whether the appeal process was correctly administered. This shocking judgment infuriated Judge Hellmann who presided over the acquittal. He said, The judges of the Supreme Court incorrectly ruled on matters of substance and added, They handed down a ready-made judgment to the Court of Assizes of Florence, telling them what they must do in order to convict the two defendants.
Hellmann firmly defended his courts judgment: In the small bedroom where there was supposed to have been a struggle, an erotic game that escalated into an orgy and finally the stabbing of Meredith, there was not one single biological trace of Knox and Sollecito, while there were abundant traces of Guede: it is impossible that the two students were able to erase their tracks and leave behind only those of Rudy.
The reasoning of the Supreme Court is clear. It had already ruled that Guede, who had his own fast track trial, had acted with others, so it reduced his sentence, in two stages, from 30 to a mere 16 years. The Knox and Sollecito acquittal is therefore inconsistent with its ruling on Guede. So Knox and Sollecito have to be guilty, regardless of the evidence. The Supreme Court has delved into the evidence that was carefully considered by Hellmanns court and has dismissed everything that demolished the prosecution case.
Furthermore, the Supreme Court has rehabilitated all the discredited witnesses and faulty forensics that have characterised this charade of a case. What does this mean? Careful consideration of evidence is not required; reason and logic are not to play a part in this process. The fact that Guede has a sentence of a mere 16 years shows in and of itself that Sollecito and Knox must be guilty. Case closed.