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Hoax: To Modena’s La Pressa Innocence Project - Knox NOT An “Exoneree”	1. Knox Definitely Not Exonerated By Cassazione Knox again and again claims “exoneration” and blames the media for getting it wrong. But few in the US and UK realise the final written Supreme Court judgment left a huge black cloud over her head. Duped organizer Professor Luparia claims to reporters…	Machiavelli	06/13/19	14	06/15/19
Euro Court Of Human Rights May Rule Tomorrow On Knox’s Much-Hyped “Appeal”	Dr Guido Raimondi, Italian, current president of the Court [Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments] 1. A Weak Submission By Knox Team At Best Italian defence lawyers file more spurious “appeals” in Strasbourg than any other. Knox’s “appeal” was filed by her lawyer Dalla Vedova FIVE-PLUS years…	Machiavelli	01/23/19	37	02/04/19
Understanding Why Guede’s Appeal For A New Trial Was Declined By The Florence Court	A few days ago Guede’s requst for a trial review was declared inadmissible by the Florence court. As usual a written explanation will be issued by the court; meanwhile, this is my take. A trial review is something that resembles what in the US would be called an “appeal”, in…	Machiavelli	01/19/17	11	01/27/17
Italian Justice: Describing A Fine System And How To Improve It	[Revered prosecutor Paolo Borsellino was assassinated 1992 with probable political connivance] Trashing Of Justice System Gets Worse Does this Reuters report capture Italian justice correctly? We linked to it on 30 June and it seemed to have some key points missing. For example it omits, as English-language reports tend to:…	Machiavelli	07/10/16	5	07/15/16
Supreme Court Final: All 3 At Murder Scene; All Lied; Verdict Vacated; No Exoneration	1. Shocking Sentencing Report Despite the public relations campaign this was by any standards a very strong case. In contrast the language, logic and law of the Marasca/Bruno Report are about as weak as Rome lawyers have seen. The Fifth Chambers normally handles only appeals of verdicts for fraud, defamation,…	Machiavelli	09/23/15	27	11/04/15
Cassation Appeal By RS And AK Against Nencini: Cassation Rules Not Enough Evidence NOT Innocence	1. Dispositivo issued by Judge Marasca This statement by Dr Marasca was dated 30 March 2015. An English translation and analysis is below the document image. Dispositivo: VISTO L”˜ART. 620 LETT.(A) C.P.P.; ANNULLA LA SENTENZA IMPUGNATA IN ORDINE AL REATO DI CUI AL CAPO (B) DELLA RUBRICA PER ESSERE IL…	Machiavelli	03/31/15	0
The Incriminating Bathroom Evidence: Visual Analysis shows the Footprint IS Sollecito’s	[Please click on each image for a larger and more high-resolution version] The sheer depth and width of the hard evidence The defenses really don’t want you to know this: in both width and depth, the full panoply of the evidence against Knox and Sollecito is absolutely overwhelming. As we…	Machiavelli	04/16/14	38	04/23/14
What We Might Read Into Sollecito Lawyer Giulia Bongiornos Final Arguments To The Appeal Judges	Under the table & over the top The picture of a serene-looking Giulia Bongiorno waving a couple of knives in court on 9 January may be visual inspiration to this reflection about what we can understand from the structure and content of her closing arguments. A very peculiar feature of…	Machiavelli	02/28/14	37	03/10/14
A Summary Of The Cassazione Ruling On Annulment Of The Knox-Sollecito Appeal	[Above and below: justice-themed artwork in Cassazione; motifs are used all over the world] 1. Introduction On June 18, 2013 the Supreme Court of Cassazione issued the official rationale for the sentence of annulment of the Hellmann-Zanetti verdict. That verdict acquitted Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito on the charge of…	Machiavelli	06/23/13	97	07/08/13
The Real Catastrophe For The Defenses That Was The Chieffi Supreme Court Ruling	1. Overview On Tuesday March 26, nine judges of the Rome Supreme Court of Cassation led by the respected Dr Chieffi quashed the previous acquittals of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of Meredith Kercher. The Supreme Court annulled almost the entirety of the 2011 Hellmann-Zanetti appeal verdicts,…	Machiavelli	04/03/13	47	04/28/13
An Overview From Italy #3 Dr Michel Giuttari Speaks Out About The Trumped Up Florence Case	[Dr Michele Giuttari, former head of the Mobile Squad in Florenece and prominet authoer] Dr Giuttari and Dr Mignini are connected because they both investigated the Monster of Florence case - and because a nasty case trumped up in Florence in retaliation has just been killed by the Supreme Court.…	Machiavelli	02/23/13	12	03/20/13
An Overview From Italy #2: Current Perceptions In Italy, Justice Perverters Fail, Mignini Vindicated	My previous report on the bad news remorselessly building here for the defense was on the Procura Generale appeal to the Supreme Court. One year ago ““ between the end of December 2011 and beginning of January 2012 ““ there were only rare idle comments in the Italian press about…	Machiavelli	01/21/13	27	02/09/13
Foolish Claims In Book By Raffaele Sollecito: The Courts Are The Most Reviled Institution In Italy	It seems that the writers or publishers did not run Sollecito’s verror-prone and defamatory book past any lawyer in Italy. His own lawyers Maori and Bongiorno seem to have been blindsided. The book-agent, shadow-writer and poublisher clearly did not even run it past any well-infomed and mature person at all…	Machiavelli	10/04/12	9	10/07/12
An Overview From Italy Of The Galati-Costagliola Appeal To The Supreme Court Of Cassation	1. About Dr Galati Dr Giovanni Galati is the Procurator General of Perugia, and one of the two magistrates at the highest function currently working in the Region of Umbria. Until early 2011 he worked in Rome as a Procurator General at the Supreme Court of Cassation in Rome. His…	Machiavelli	08/16/12	17	03/24/13
Brief Explanation Of Difference Between “Calunna” And “Diffamazione” EDIT	[image] The crimes of calunnia and diffamazione are located in different sections of the criminal code. Diffamazione is in the chapter entitled “crimes against honour” in the section of the Code protecting personal liberties. Calunnia is discussed in the chapter entitled “crimes against the administration of justice”, in a section…	Machiavelli	03/06/09	0