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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
(110,252 posts)The high court ruled that the Hellman appeals court, the one that found Amanda and Raffaele, erred by not taking into account the "truths" that had already been "proven" in Rudy Guede's separate, fast-track trial. In order to get his fast track trial and its reduced sentence, Guede was required to "stipulate" to the truth of all the prosecution claims, including the claim that Guede had two accomplices who wielded the knives while he took advantage of Meredith sexually. And Amanda and Raffaele were named repeatedly as the accomplices. Guede also stipulated to having heard the girls argue, and to the claim that Meredith thought Amanda had stolen her rent money.
The prosecution accepted these claims of Guede's even though they knew the only non-Meredith DNA found on the purse belonged to Guede himself, the burglar.
So Amanda and Raffaele were essentially convicted, along with Guede, in his fast track trial -- a trial in which they could not participate. The claims stipulated to in that trial were then incorporated into the "proof" of their "guilt" that Judge Nencini put together in his Motivation report.
And this is what they call justice in Italy.