<p>Actually, the website is written by an anonymous person with a fake name of Ed McCall. No one knows his true identity. The site relies upon the report of the first judge, Massei, who fell for the bizarre sex games theory. The most recent prosecutor completely repudiated this motive. The second trial and the Hellmann Report are essentially ignored. Cpt and Harvest are getting all their info from a very biased site (completely ignoring the tons of evidence vindicating Knox) by an anonymous author.</p>
<p>I still haven’t seen even the slightest effort on the part of the “guilters” to explain how Knox and Sollecito managed to take part in a fight and violent murder in the victim’s bedroom and leave not a SINGLE trace of their presence behind. </p>
<p>Consolation, if you want to know, go to the anonymous crackpot blog to which I linked in a previous post. This is where they are getting all their information.</p>
<p>Please excuse my ignorance, but what I find more appalling than anything in the Amanda Knox case is the fact that in Italy, you can apparently be prosecuted over and over in the same case until “The State” gets the results it wants. That quite honestly boggles my mind, given America’s bedrock moral conviction against double jeopardy. I’m outraged at the idea that we might agree to extradite this young woman back to Italy to be imprisoned after her appeal acquittal, given that we’d never jeopardize an Italian citizen in kind here in our courts. How is it that Italy is seen as a Democratic society?</p>
<p>There are a number of Knox-hating websites or blogs on the internet where cpt and Harvest are getting their information. Much of it is passed off as direct testimony or from the transcripts of the trial, but in truth it is mostly selected scraps of distorted material which are either taken out of context or made up out of whole cloth. Most of these sites are authored by anonymous people who are obsessed with this case. However, there are a few who have been identified. This Time article shines a light on these loony people. </p>
<p><a href=“The Amanda Knox Haters Society: How They Learned to Hate Me Too | TIME.com”>The Amanda Knox Haters Society: How They Learned to Hate Me Too | TIME.com;
<p>^^^
It is ironic that you say “The Murder of Meredith Kersher” site is biased when you have linked the “Injustice in Perugia” site which is nothing short of a PR media blitz for Knox. The site I linked also includes the testimony of Knox and Sollecito as well as other witnesses who support them. But I am sure you would not find that testimony on the site questionable at all. </p>
<p>I don’t have any “crystal ball” but after 20 years of practicing law and spending some time reading the transcripts from the trial, it does not add up for me at all. Doesn’t add up for others who have much more experience than I do in the arena of criminal defense. So guess we are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. </p>
<p>On the issue of “double jeopardy” that another poster raised, it would NOT apply at this point in the U.S. either. The judgment was never final since intermediary appeals were still available. Allen Dershowitz explains this here:</p>
For sure, thank goodness!! What an ordeal.
The defense and prosecution have undoubtably spent a boatload of money! Glad it’s over–amazing she was tried so many times. Such a nightmare for everyone involved.
To me the really sad part is that the family of the victim will never find out who killed their daughter and see them punished or have to live with the fact that they believe they know who killed their daughter and see them walk free.
^I agree with that. It struck me how little attention is paid to the victim and the particularly savage way she was killed. I can’t imagine the suffering her parents are experiencing.
I’m confused because I thought there was someone in jail convicted of the murder, who’s DNA was all over the crime scene
“To me the really sad part is that the family of the victim will never find out who killed their daughter and see them punished or have to live with the fact that they believe they know who killed their daughter and see them walk free.”
You mean they will never know that the guy who was convicted for the rape and murder, whose DNA was all over the room, was actually the guy who raped and murdered her? I guess it just didn’t make for as exciting of a story, it would have been so much better if the jury had gone with the satanic ritual theory.
“The defense and prosecution have undoubtably spent a boatload of money! Glad it’s over–amazing she was tried so many times. Such a nightmare for everyone involved.”
I read that one of the prosecutors said the decision proves the Italian justice system works. Oy.
I am deeply sorry for Meredith Kercher’s parents not only because they lost their child in this horrible way, but because they seem to have fallen victim to the phenomenon of families of a victim becoming fixated on someone that the police pointed them to in error, who by any rational look at the evidence is clearly not guilty. Her murderer is in jail. They would be more justified in feeling angry that the Italians reduced the killer’s sentence in exchange for his helping them try to convict two clearly innocent people.
I’m so glad this is over. What a nightmare for everyone involved.
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Perhaps in the big village of the U.S. but the focus was solidly on the victim in other parts of the world, and especially in the UK. A few “news” outfits in the US were determined to crucify Knox, including your resident hateful windbags a la Nancy “Grace”
Ah, Nancy Grace. Such a paragon of journalistic virtue.