Category: Victims family
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
So The Trial Date IS Postponed, Now It’s 16 January
Posted by Peter Quennell
This is a translation of the report from La Stampa.
Meredith process, hearing postponed
Amanda and Raffaele have to answer to the charge of murder
The case against Amanda and Raffaele is postponed to allow for the reading of additional investigations carried out by the Public Prosecutor
Postponed to January 16, 2009, is the hearing for the murder of Meredith Kercher, which initiates the trialproceedings against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, who are accused of murder in the taunting and violence against American student (Rudy Guede has already been sentenced to 30 years jis trial having been expedited, ed.)
The presiding judge, Giancarlo Massei, deferred the opening session to enable the parties to get to know the contents of the additional investigations carried out by the prosecutor of Perugia. Tomorrow is the deadline for the submission of lists and texts that will amount to a total of about a hundred.
And a brief summary of some of the other recent developments in the case….
- A witness who knew her claims to have seen Amanda Knox in a supermarket early on the day after the crime
- A second witness claims to have heard a scream on the evening of the crime, this one stating a precise time
- A witness claims to have seen Knox, Sollecito and Guede together previously - if so, they did know one another
- A cut was apparently seen on Knox’s neck by another house resident; autopsy and scenario are being reviewed
- A fund-raising event in Seattle apparently raised $11,000 to help defray Knox’s parents’ defense and travel costs
- And a Kercher family request for a closed-door trial - permitted in Italy for sex crimes - is now being reviewed
One of the great areas of conjecture is whether the alleged defendants actually pre-planned an assault on Meredith. Or whether it was perhaps just a taunt, one that took on a deadly spiral.
There was an apparent simultaneous switching-off of their mobiles earlier in the evening, for a reason not so far explained. And now an apparent prior three-way relationship between the two charged and the one sentenced? This does not look good.
Posted by Peter Quennell on 11/25/08 at 03:48 PM •
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