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In reply to the discussion: Amanda Knox will again go before an Italian court [View all]pnwmom
(109,388 posts)The small murder room was smeared with blood, and DNA was found inside and outside the victim's body. They also found handprints and shoe prints. Despite what the prosecution said, the murder room had NOT been cleaned. (There are photos of the blood-smeared room all over the web.) But all this physical evidence only belonged to one person: Rudy Guede, who had been involved in burglaries three times over the previous month (one of which involved throwing a rock through a window) but for some reason wasn't arrested. His feces were also found in the toilet, even though he had no business being there.
If Amanda was involved in this very violent stabbing, why did she leave no traces in the murder room or the victim's body? Why did the victim leave no trace of her blood on Amanda's clothes? (They weren't washed -- the police found them on Amanda's bed when they collected evidence.) Why was there no history of Amanda being angry with Meredith? (Meredith supposedly complained about Amanda, but no one ever said that Amanda complained about Meredith.) And why would Raffaele have got involved in murdering a man he had never even met.
No evidence in the murder room. No motive. How can this not constitute reasonable doubt?
(P.S. You might read on some those sites about Amanda's DNA being mixed with Meredith's in the bathroom. Just remember -- this was Amanda's bathroom so her preexisting DNA could have been anywhere. And then a drop of Meredith's blood could have fallen on it. Also, there is video of the police collecting the blood spot by smearing it across the sink -- which makes it even more likely they would inadvertently mix it with preexisting DNA from Amanda's saliva when she brushed her teeth in that sink.
In general, any time you read about a "fact" that makes Amanda appear possibly guilty -- I hope you'll member the murder room. Is it really likely that Amanda managed to kill Meredith without a single piece of physical evidence being left in the room or exchanged between the two girls? That, as the prosecution argued, Amanda was able to scrub the room of all traces of her invisible fingerprints and DNA while leaving only Guede's?