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Correcting NY Times 9: Final Fatal Sequence Proves 3 Attackers With Complete Certainty

This explains autopsy findings. It may not be an easy read. It is the ninth in a multi-part series focused on provable realities in response to an inflammatory three-page report in the New York Times almost exclusively channeling dishonest and repeatedly-refuted Knox PR. 1. Context Of This Post In previous…

Cardiol MD 11/28/21 4 11/30/21
Correcting NY Times 8: Some 20 Forensic Proofs Guede Did NOT Attack Meredith Alone

This explains autopsy findings. It may not be an easy read. It is the eighth in a multi-part series focused on provable realities in response to an inflammatory three-page report in the New York Times almost exclusively channeling dishonest and repeatedly-refuted Knox PR. 1. Guede Persona, An Overview First, for…

Cardiol MD 11/25/21 0
Was A Vulnerable John Douglas Hijacked By ‘First Generation Crackpots’ To Lie About The Case?

First-generation crackpots Doug Preston, Michael Heavey, and Steve Moore 1. Overview Of This Post In these four magnificent posts the Machine shows in devastating detail HOW John Douglas mis-stated the case. Click for Post: How With Myriad False Claims John Douglas Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots #1 Click for…

Cardiol MD 09/18/18 19 09/25/18
The Single-Attacker/Lone-Wolf Hoax: How It Is Annihilated By The Forensic Evidence

Judge Micheli in 2008 first ruled impossible Guede did crime alone 1. Context Of This Post In previous posts I noted my extensive court experience with forensic testimony. I have American doctorates in medicine and law. Also that the remorseless waves of forensic evidence above all, in days of harrowing…

Cardiol MD 07/11/18 11 07/30/18
Given The Semi-Public Tensions, Could Someone Close To Knox Blow Her Cover At Last?

By request, image of victim Laci (center) with husband and his half-sister 1. The Minefield Knox Inhabits Amanda Knox is not exactly surrounded wall-to-wall with friends. There were family tensions going way back which even Knox mentioned in her book. Since returning to the US her reaching out to those…

Cardiol MD 10/20/17 4 10/24/17
Eight Evidence Items Beyond Reasonable Doubt: How Honestly Did Marasca & Bruno Address Them?

1. Post Overview You might recall that the Fifth Chambers Sentencing Report was (illegally under Italian law) published two months late in 2015. Machiavelli posted the panel’s spoken verdict late in March 2015 and I posted a series of tests of the final report’s honesty in April 2015. Thereafter the…

Cardiol MD 04/06/17 0
Those Pesky Certainties Cassation’s Fifth Chamber May Or May Not Convincingly Contend With #4

1. SERIES OVERVIEW This post continues a response to the March 27th, 2015 announcement of Cassation’s Fifth Chamber that it had decided that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were Not Guilty of the November 2007 Murder in Perugia of Meredith Kercher. The Fifth Chamber’s Reporting Judge Antonio Paolo Bruno, was…

Cardiol MD 05/29/15 10 06/17/15
Those Pesky Certainties Cassation’s Fifth Chamber May Or May Not Convincingly Contend With #3

Media staff waiting in front of the Supreme Court 1. This Series’ Foreboding Context On March 27th, 2015 Cassation’s Fifth Chamber announced that it had decided that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were not guilty of the November 2007 Murder in Perugia of Meredith Kercher. The Fifth Chamber is but…

Cardiol MD 05/21/15 32 06/09/15
Those Pesky Certainties Cassation’s Fifth Chamber May Or May Not Convincingly Contend With #2

The Italian Supreme Court is in the background 1. This Series’ Ominous Context On Friday, 27th March, 2015 a Panel of five Court of Cassation judges of the Fifth Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court in Rome, found Amanda Knox, and Raffaelle Sollecito, Not Guilty of the Murder of Meredith…

Cardiol MD 04/30/15 32 05/14/15
Those Pesky Certainties Cassation’s Fifth Chambers May Or May Not Convincingly Contend With #1

The Italian Supreme Court is in the background 1. How Overload Can Overwhelm The Checks And Balances The Italian Supreme Court (SCC) has 396 Judges in Rome and elsewhere. Because of the enormous pro-defendant tilt in the system, the SCC hears about 80,000 appeals a year - more than all…

Cardiol MD 04/11/15 26 04/16/15
Summaries Of The Nencini Report #1: The Attention Directed To Various Crucial Timings

[Florence Palace of Justice at night] 1. Overview Of This Series The court-ordered repeat of Knox’s and Sollecito’s appeal concluded in Florence a year ago. On 25 March of this year Paolo Antonio Bruno, the Supreme Court lead reviewing judge, will present to his colleagues on the bench his findings…

Cardiol MD 01/30/15 15 02/02/15
Analysis #3 Of Testimony Of Dr Chiacchiera, Organized Crime Section: Contradictions Between RS & AK

1. Overview Of This Series In 2007 Dr Chiacchiera was the Director of the Organized Crime Section and the Deputy Director of the Flying Squad. He was one of the most senior and experienced law enforcement officers to testify at the trial. His testimony and his cross examination by the…

Cardiol MD 10/29/14 5 10/31/14
Analysis #2 Of Testimony Of Dr Chiacchiera, Organized Crime Section: Discounting Any Lone Wolf

Dr Chiacchiera (talking) with his team explaining reason for charges in another case Overview Of This Series In 2007 Dr Chiacchiera was the Director of the Organized Crime Section and the Deputy Director of the Flying Squad. He was one of the most senior and experienced law enforcement officers to…

Cardiol MD 09/25/14 31 10/01/14
Analysis #1 Of Testimony Of Marco Chiacchiera, Director, Organized Crime Section, Flying Squad

Dr Chiacchiera with Dr Comodi explaining reason for charges in another case Overview Of This Series Yet another vital translation which will be posted in the trial testimony areaof McCall’s great Wiki. This again is translated by the ever-dedicated main posterr ZiaK. Although I graduated as a medical doctor I…

Cardiol MD 09/15/14 6 09/20/14
Saul Kassin Framed Many Fine Italian Justice Officials - And Played Whiny Victim When Fraud Exposed

Williams College President Dr Falk, and head of psychology Dr Fein 1. The Mass-Victimhood Phenomenon We often take note of a common “they can’t take what they dish out” phenomenon among the Sollecito & Knox supporters. If you show unequivocally that their FACTS are wrong, and that they have illegally…

Cardiol MD 04/23/14 15 04/27/14
Why Is Appeal Prosecutor Crini So Very, Very Interested In The Precise Position Of Filomena’s Door?

[Above, we can see Filomena’s grey door, at hard left; ahead are Meredith’s & Knox’s bedrooms] Do please bear in mind that this appeal was initiated by Knox and Sollecito, and the verdict, sentence and sentencing report they dispute is Judge’s Massei’s from the 2009 trial. The subject of one…

Cardiol MD 12/14/13 26 12/19/13
Why Meredith Might Have Survived If The Attackers Had Cared And Called For Help Very Fast

Malala Yousafzai, world-famous Pakistani victim of a Taliban assassination attempt, survived via a tracheostomy Absence of full medical picture outside Italy For this post I wear my medical hat - I am a cardiologist who has had many lives in the balance under my hands. Parts of the prosecution’s evidence…

Cardiol MD 12/12/13 42 12/17/13
Updating Our Scenarios And Timelines #2: An Integrated Comparison Of The Timing of the Phone-Events

[Above and below: what Meredith missed, outside dining in Perugia at night] 1. Point of our series TMJK’s core focus has long been upon “What happened at 7 Via della Pergola, in Perugia, on the night of November 1-2, 2007?” Over the last 4+ years, more than 20 TJMK posts,…

Cardiol MD 06/28/13 51 08/04/13
Updating Our Scenarios And Timelines #1: The Timing Of RS Phone Events By Coordinated Universal Time

1. Updating our scenarios TMJK’s core focus has long been upon “What happened at 7 Via della Pergola, in Perugia, on the night of November 1-2, 2007?” Over the last 4+ years more than 20 TJMK posts, with more than 400 comments, have addressed the subject of possible scenarios and…

Cardiol MD 06/01/13 20 06/05/13
Twenty Forensic Reasons Why Guede Could NOT Have Attacked Meredith Alone

[Bongiorno in 2011 trying to rattle an unshakable Guede claiming Knox and Sollecito did the crime] 1. Guede Persona, An Overview The convicted murderer Rudy Guede to this day claims that Meredith let him into the house, so we cut him no slack for that. But at the same time…

Cardiol MD 04/19/13 23 04/23/13
How Much To Place Blame On Guede? IMMENSE Headache For RS & AK Teams

[Photo by Andrea Vogt as in December 2010 Supreme Court decides that Rudy Guede didnt act alone] Zero To 100% Guede Was Claimed Sole Attacker On a scale of 0% to 100% how much of the blame for the crime against Meredith has been heaped on Rudy Guede? Well, it…

Cardiol MD 01/12/13 44 01/23/13
Dissecting The Hellmann Report #5: Their Obfuscation of Time of Death and Of Legal Blameworthiness

[View down on Meredith’s very well-lit house from the apartment above witness Madame Nara Capezzali’s] Surreal Documentary Context We have a very surreal situation on our hands. One perhaps without legal precedent. As previously in this series the legal document being analysed here is the Hellmann-Zanetti appeal report. 1) No…

Cardiol MD 09/06/12 25 09/13/12
Dissecting The Hellmann Report #4: The Contortions To Dismiss Witness Quintavalle

[Above: Images of Mr Quintavalle’s Conad store; he serves at far left, his cashier serves at far right] Scroll down here for previous posts in this series. Mr Quintavalle owns the Conad franchise at the lower end of Via Garibaldli, about halfway between Meredith’s place and Sollecito’s. Judge Massei in…

Cardiol MD 08/20/12 38 08/28/12
Dissecting The Hellmann Report #3: How Zanetti & Hellmann Bizarrely Try Discredit Witness Curatolo

[Stone steps Meredith and all three accused maybe used on the night; left and at bottom, where witness sat] Under the first post in this series dissecting The Hellmann Report, one of our percipient commenters suggested this: The next portion in the series should likely be about the witnesses, I…

Cardiol MD 08/02/12 45 08/10/12
Dissecting The Hellmann Report #2: How Judges Zanetti And Hellman Tilted The Legal Playing Field

The Calunnia section of the Hellmann Report is about 4 pages in a 94 page document and it covers the Knox framing of Lumumba. The Calunnia section was used in the first post of my series (“Dissecting The Hellmann Report #1: Highlighting Representative Examples Of Its Many Bizarre Quirks” )…

Cardiol MD 07/24/12 37 08/08/12
Dissecting The Hellmann Report #1: Highlighting Representative Examples Of Its Many Bizarre Quirks

[Above: Judge Hellman. At bottom: Judge Zanetti, who may have written the sentencing report] Milan and Rome are the main venues for Italy’s important business trials. Those in Perugia are small and relatively obscure. In contrast Perugia handles very important criminal investigations for the central government when there are conflicts…

Cardiol MD 07/20/12 28 07/23/12
What Struck Me In John Kercher’s Excellent And Very Telling Book

1. Overview Of John’s “Meredith” Book Look at this subtitle! John Kercher is a wordsmith paterfamilias thrust into marshaling words to convey feelings - emotions - thoughts - experiences for which there are no adequate words. Meredith Our daughter’s murder and the heartbreaking quest for the truth [Kindle Edition] John…

Cardiol MD 05/16/12 3 05/21/12
Scenario Explaining Meredith’s Cell-Phones Dumped At The Same Address As The Toilet-Bomb Hoax

We are facing east here. That road ahead drops way down, and then it joins a road rising sharply up again to where Meredith’s house is. Here Madame Lana’s house is to the left. The cellphones were tossed over the trees at the center, down the slope into the garden.…

Cardiol MD 01/07/11 67 01/15/11
The El Bizarro Defense: “It’s Unfair To Use The DNA They Didn’t Manage To Scrub Away Against Them”

Remember the twins who appealed for mercy at their trial for murdering their parents? On the grounds that they are now orphans? There is something of that reminiscent here. The defenses of Knox and Sollecito seem to be trying to exclude evidence that they themselves tried to destroy, essentially on…

Cardiol MD 12/22/10 5 12/25/10
As Amanda Knox Via Her Statement Has Now Placed “Will She Testify?” Front And Center…

She sure has created an interesting cliffhanger. Last Saturday Amanda Knox spoke from her seat beside her defense team and she was not subjected to cross-examination. If she does choose to mount the stand to back up her claims with some testimony, she will be subject to cross examination, as…

Cardiol MD 12/16/10 8 02/24/11