Amanda Knox will again go before an Italian court

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106. The court system there is very, very strange.

Did you know that everything that the real murderer (Rude Guede) stipulated to in order to get a fast track trial and reduced sentence is then considered FACT in the Knox and Sollecito trial?

Once the high court approved of the plea bargain, all "facts" leading to his sentencing are regarded as fact in any future trials...including trials of other individuals who had no legal representation and no ability to challenge these so-called facts in Ruede's trial.

Furthermore, Ruede would never have to testify again.

This goes against the basic right of any individual to face and challenge one's accuser.

IF for no other reason, this will be why the European Court of Appeals will overturn this decision. Basically, Knox and Sollecito went into court facing this: It has already been proven that Rude Guede was at the crime scene. He says you committed the murder. Now, it is a fact that there were three people at the crime scene, and he says you killed Meredith. Your job is to prove it wasn't you."

Again, the ONLY physical evidence against Sollecito was on a bra clasp that was kicked around a bedroom for weeks in an unsecured crime scene. DNA of SEVERAL other men was also found on the bra clasp. Either Meredith was even more promiscuous that Knox, or the bra clasp suffered serious contamination on the scene, the police station or the lab. That information did not come out at trial, because the expert witness testifying to the fact of Sollecito's DNA did not also tell the court that the DNA of several other men were also on the bra clasp. Wouldn't you agree that that would be relevant and possibly exculpatory evidence to Sollecito? And the defense was unable to test the bra clasp, or they would have brought forth this evidence in trial.

There was absolutely no damning DNA evidence against Knox. None. You will read of her DNA mixed with Meredith's (true) and you might read of her blood mixed with Meredith, but that is not true. People seem to confuse DNA and blood, which as you probably know, are not the same thing. It would be quite strange if Knox's DNA was not all over the house and mixed with Meredith's DNA and the other young women's DNA.

I didn't follow this case for the first couple of years; I assumed "foxy knoxy" must have done it, since she was scene with a mop and bleach, etc, etc. None of that made it into the trial record, because it's not true.

Mostly, I started following the case because I became fascinated with the fact that a modern day country could have such a medieval court system.

But, then, again, we are pretty medieval, too. We still have the death penalty.