<p>Well, cpt, you seem to be doing it again. Making things up to support your version of the truth. Most of what you are calling facts are pieces of misinformation purposefully given to the press by the prosecution. She never once said she was at a party that night. That was a mistranslation released by the prosecutors when she told them two other people stopped by Raffaele’s that night. She was interrogated for 6 hours the day they found Meredith, November 2, from 3 pm until 9 pm, but held at the police station until 6 am the next morning. That is way more than 2 1/2 hours. You are saying this is normal police procedural and not an indication that they were out to get her from the beginning? She signed those two statements implicating Lumumba in the early morning hours of November 7th. She arrived there with Raffaele shortly before 5pm the night before. 2 1/2 hours would have been 7:30pm November 6th.</p>
<p>Those two statements are the only two things in the whole case that can be seen as “lies” told by Amanda Knox. After getting her to sign a statement, written pby the police, that she had met Lumumba and let him into the apartment but didn’t remember any of it. Once they realized that she broke, they spent the next 4 hours adding more fanciful details, getting her to sign a second statement, also written by the police. Hours later she recanted both of these statements, and they, ultimately, turned out to be complete fabrications. Both Amanda Knox and Lumumba had airtight alibis showing that they could not have been there at the time of death. You continue to use these statements as “proof” that she was involved.</p>
<p>Here’s where the elephant enters the room: police and prosecutors are not always honest and not always on the side of justice. They arrest Knox and Lumumba even though both have alibis and Knox had recanted the statements. They hold Lumumba for 2 weeks, release him, then arrest Sollecito because, well, the presence of semen suggests a male was involved and he happens to be the closest one to Amanda Knox. They hold him based on a shoeprint that is neither the right size or the right brand of his shoes. When it turns out they both have an alibi for that evening, the coroner changes the time of death to something scientifically impossible. When it turns out they have an alibi on Raffaele’s computer for the new time of death, the investigators “accidentally” delete files. Note, and this is important, that the independent (not part of your imaginary “Knox PR Machine”) forensic computer experts found evidence of the deleted files during the appeal. Who’s the liar now? The Appeals Court threw out every bit of evidence used to convict, finding evidence to prove their innocence and not just cast “reasonable doubt,” but that was damaging to the reputations of many involved in the prosecution. In a country where reputation is everything, they had no choice but to appeal the new findings.</p>
<p>This whole thing reminds me of the Battleship Iowa explosion and the fanciful Clayton Hartwig/ gay love triangle story concocted by the Department of the Navy. Even when they found the evidence showing what it really was, the Navy stuck by their story to preserve the careers of the officers involved. A competent fiction writer could have come up with a reasonable scenario, but these guys were amateurs and, as career Navy, gay=evil=bad=murderer. Not a single person I knew in the Navy at the time, and I lived in VA Beach so I knew a lot, believed the cover story, but they understood why it existed. I’m sure you can still find some cptofthehouse types who believe it, though, despite it having been proved false.</p>