Friday, November 20, 2009

The Summations: More On How The Prosecution Launched Forth - And On Possible Motive

Posted by Tiziano



[Above: The two prosecutors today - click for larger image]

The TGCOM news service quoted this statement on the theory of the motive.

“Amanda Knox harbored hatred for Meredith… and so it was time for revenge rather than flirting….” According to the prosecutor Amanda wanted revenge on “that girl who was only with her English friends, and who reproached [Amanda] for her lack of cleanliness.” Thus was set under way “the calvary of Meredith.”

And this report from Umbria Journal adds details to the description posted below from Il Mattino

PM Giuliano Mignini spoke of a “unique event” of a trial which has “involved three continents”, opening his summing-up address in the trial of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox.

“A media trial in which the elements which emerged in court largely vanished,” the magistrate affirmed. “Detectives in search of notoriety, writers, bloggers, and mystery writers alternated with one another in a sort of parallel trial. But the trial is taking place only in this court room.”

Rudy Guede has been the “convitato di pietra” [literally, silent guest] in the trial of RF and AK according to Mignini. “In a way he has always been present,” the magistrate said referring to the Ivorian, already condemned to 30 years in prison by fast-track trial for complicity in the murder of Meredith Kercher with the two young people.

“Supporters of Sollecito and Knox” Mignini stressed “don’t stop at proclaiming their innocence, but they accuse him [Guede] too. They say that they were not at the crime house, but they also say the assassin is Guede. The accused wanted to create a parallel trial without his being able to defend himself.”

The PM then claimed that the breaking of a window in the bedroom of one of the Italian housemates of Knox and Meredith Kercher carried out according to the prosecution to mislead the investigations “is the special key to the event and the mystery. If it was simulated, as is evident, the authors are Knox, and Sollecito who always followed her. And the objective was to turn away suspicion.” The magistrate defined the break-in as “the nail on which the defences of the accused are hanging.”

“A nail” he averred “which has fallen down noisily and with it the the defences.” For Mignini the theft was simulated “from the inside, by someone who wanted to turn away suspicions and maybe direct them towards Rudy.”

Amanda Knox “knowingly accused an innocent man”... The reference is to Patrick Lumumba who, however, he did not expressly name, involved in the investigations of the murder of Meredith Kercher through the statements to the police of the young American and then absolved of any wrong-doing (he has actually nominated as a civil complainant against the American who is accused of defamation against him).

“Amanda” the [prosecutor] stressed “did not lift a finger while he was languishing in prison. Neither she nor her mother who was in her confidence. And what a coincidence” Mignini continued “it was a matter of a coloured person like Rudy”

 

Posted by Tiziano on 11/20/09 at 04:52 PM in Various hypotheses,  Pondering motive,  Evidence & Witnesses,  Faked breakin,  Trials 2008 & 2009,  Massei prosecution,  Hoaxes against Italy,  6 No staging hoax,  Hoaxes re Guede,  33 Sole attacker hoax

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A point of info on the alleged motive. Reports on CNN and so on, even today, are still claiming the motive alleged by the prosecution is “a sex game gone wrong” even though Judge Micheli who sent Knox and Sollecito to trial had concluded a year ago that the crime was apparently a form of taunting and payback.

The prosecution introduced testimony that Meredith and Knox were not getting along and that Meredith might even have been thinking of moving out. Also they introduced the fact of the several text messages Knox sent to Meredith the night before (Halloween) asking to get together which Meredith seems to have ignored. Also the fact that Patrick told Knox not to come to work in the bar that night, which might have led Knox to suspect Meredith was replacing her.

So a foundation for this claimed revenge motive was laid down at various points during the trial. No evidence was ever introduced that anyone was trying to implement a group sex game that Meredith was simply unwilling to go along with.

Posted by Peter Quennell on 11/20/09 at 06:09 PM | #
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