Category: Supreme Court
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Guede Appeal Outcome Mon-Tues Could be An Indicator To Knox-Sollecito Appeal Outcome
Posted by Peter Quennell
The first eight posts at the bottom here represent our previous reporting on Rudy Guede’s appeal.
Commissario Montalbano’s recent post on the Italian appeals process is also vital reading here.
The appeals grounds seemed thin, and the appeals judge will be very thoroughly acquainted with the report of the judge who first sentenced him, Judge Micheli.
There were only two variations to his original story in the appeal hearings: that he had not had intimate relations with Meredith, and that he had seen and identified Knox but not Sollecito. In his trial, his story was that he had identified Sollecito by appearance if not by name, and that he might have heard Knox nearby.
He emphasized that he briefly tried to save Meredith. But of course he fled without ever calling an ambulance, even anonymously, and Meredith was left clutching her wounded neck, with her door locked and her mobile phones removed. Guede then went out to a disco before taking to his heels to Milan and then Germany.
Recently Guede was mysteriously attacked in prison. Connected or not? Who knows? But Rudy might be thinking that 30 years in prison with time off for behavior is a better bet than another possible attack that ends worse.
The pro-Knox and Sollecito factions seem to be banking on their appeals late 2010 being a whole new trial. Guede’s appeals judge simply refused to reopen the whole case with new witnesses, and the November hearings were over very quickly.
Our Italian experts tell us that if Guede gets freedom, then Knox and Sollecito may expect to see freedom too. And if Guede gets his sentence reduced or confirmed, then that is very likely to be their fate too.
For why they all seem to be so joined at the hip read here and here. The Guede-as-lone-wolf theory never even got to first base.
Posted by Peter Quennell on 12/20/09 at 05:06 PM •
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