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In reply to the discussion: Amanda Knox will again go before an Italian court [View all]pnwmom
(109,068 posts)Short answer: he was tired after hours of repetitive interrogations about his activities over a period of time, and got mixed up about what night they were talking about.
For the full answer, I can refer you to the report by Judge Hellman, the head judge of the first appeals trial, which found Amanda and Raffaele to be innocent. (Not just not guilty.) At the link you can find a copy of the translated report. Ill just include a few paragraphs here, but for the full answer you should read the report. It is full of factual details and common sense.
By the way, this is just the Alibi section of the full Hellman-Zenneti report. If you read nothing else about the case, I urge you to read the rest of Judge Hellmans report, to balance the other sources you might have read.
https://hellmannreport.wordpress.com/contents/reasons-for-the-decision/alibi/
In any event, this Court does not find that one can maintain that the alibi offered is false.
The first-level Corte di Assise held that the alibi was false on the basis of the following evidence:
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This Corte di Assise of second level, however, finds that none of the above elements, whether alone or in conjunction with the others, can serve to prove that the version given by the two defendants was false, as these elements have no unambiguous meaning whatsoever in themselves, and also in light of what later emerged during the proceedings can find an explanation different from that adopted [operata] by the Corte di Assise of first level, and more plausible based on notions of common experience.
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