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Innocence Project: Seven Years Clutching Knox And Trashing Italian Justice To Joy Of Mafias #5
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Joint press conference of American and Italian prosecutors
1. Perverse Denigration Of Italian Justice
The stance of Barry Scheck’s Innocence Project on Amanda Knox is not only opportunistic and dishonest. It is perverse in terms of their main mission.
We don’t approve of their broad-brush undermining of forensic science. Statistics show that forensic science has made quantum advances since most of their cases were sent to prison, and these days very few new cases of bent science are showing up. The CSI Effect is a defense device not based on current reality.
But we do approve of any highlighting of how the American system rains massive unfairness, such as the huge tilt toward plea-bargaining by hard-line and mostly elected prosecutors (in Italy only highly-trained career judges can enter into their restrained form of plea-bargaining) and to push for much-needed reforms. And of any learning from other, better, justice systems.
They are not too far down the road on the latter, but seem sincere about it - and there is a great deal that they could learn from Italy.
So the Innocence Project’s incessant use of Amanda Knox, a FAKE exoneree who for big bucks is demonizing perhaps the world’s FAIREST system, is not helpful to either the Italian or American situations.
Here below from our numerous comparison posts are some that highlight the many pluses and several minuses of the Italian justice system.
In essence: it is an extremely effective system. it is widely respected by competent counterparts (as contrasted with the wildly incompetent Steve Moore, Michael Heavey, and so on), it works very closely with the FBI and exchanges officers, it keeps Italian crime at a very low level, it very bravely takes on the mafias despite over 100 assasinations, and it gives an exceptional list of breaks to perpetrators. Recidivisms - repeat crimes - are among the world’s lowest.
2. Main Pluses And Minuses Of The Italian Justice System
1. Plus: Italy Has Little Crime, Few Murders, Small Prison Population
Click for Post: Compared To Italy, Say, Precisely How Wicked Is The United States?
2. Plus: The Well-Trained Well-Equipped Italian Police Are Also Well-Liked
Click for Post: Italian Police Long Known As Among Europe’s Coolest, Now Also Being Remarked Upon As”¦
3. Plus: Italian Cops, Judges, Labs Work Exceptionally Closely With US’s FBI
Click for Post: FBI Reporting Close Co-operation With Italy In Arresting And Soon Extraditing A Fugitive Swindler
4. Plus: Italy And United States Cooperate Daily On Effecting Extraditions
Click for Post: Italian Justice & The Telling Status Of Extraditions To And From Italy
5. Plus: Italy Has Implemented Perhaps World’s Best Anti-Terrorism System
Click for Post: Counterterrorism: Another Way Italian Law Enforcement Is An Effective Model For Everywhere Else
6. Plus: The Career Prosecutors Are Well-Trained, Straight, Very Hard to Bend
Click for Post: Why The Italian Judiciary’s Probably Less Prone to Pressure Than Any Other In The World
7. Plus: Those Charged Get Repeated Chances To Walk Free Before Trial
Click for Post: “They Were Held For A Year Without Even Being Charged!!” How Italian Justice REALLY Works
8. Plus: The Courts Take Reasonable Doubt At Trials Very, Very Seriously
Click for Post: Reasonable Doubt In Italian Law: How Sollecito, Hellmann, And Zanetti Seriously Garbled It.
9. Plus: The Appeal System Is Ponderous But Its Fairness Exceptional
Click for Post: How The Italian Appeals Process Works And Why It Consumes So Much Time
10. Plus: The Italian System Learns Fast And Seeks Incessantly To Improve
Click for Post: Meredith May Not See Justice (Yet) But She Will Leave At Least Three Legacies
11. Minus: Mafias And Corrupt Politicians Have Somewhat Bent a Good System
Click for Post: Trashing Of Italian Justice To Bend Trial Outcomes And How The Republic Pushes Back
12. Minus: The System Is So Fair To Perps, Victim’s Families Can Suffer Terribly
Click for Post: The Terrible Weight On The Victim’s Family Because The Italian System Is So Very, Very Pro Defendant
13. Plus: Still, A Fine System Continuously Improving, Already Good As A Global Model
Click for Post: Italian Justice: Describing A Fine System And How To Improve It
14. Plus: And The System Really Has Gone The Extra Mile In Meredith’s Case
Click for Post: From Shortly Before Last December’s Verdict: Our Poster Hopeful’s Moving Tribute To Italian Justice
3. Final post in this series.
Click for Post: Innocence Project: Seven Years Clutching Knox And Trashing Italian Justice To Joy Of Mafias #6