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There are two strong, independent lines of evidence: the various activities related to Meredith's cellphones (briefly summarized earlier today) and the lack of anything in Meredith's duodenum. The hypothesis that nothing will pass into the duodenum in 5.5 hours (Mignini and Massei are...

Even Crini has them leaving Sollecito's flat at 9:30, apparently after opening the Naruto. Meredith was dead before 10, probably long before. MOO.

And with that interaction acknowledged, the TOD problem gets more acute for the prosecution. Several independent lines of evidence put the TOD as no later than about 10 PM, and we know from Ms. Popovic that Amanda was behaving normally as of roughly 8:30. There is not enough time for the pair...

If it were premeditated, they would have left their cell phones on and at Raf's place. The problem with Rudy is that there is zero communication between him and the pair, except as pure, unalloyed conjecture.

quesarita, It was just two parallel lines IIRC. What Vinci showed was that shoe prints do not have two parallel edges (inner edge versus outer edge). The edges are always curving.

The Vinci report does a convincing job on this subject IMO, but one has to do with a machine translation. I seem to recall posting a portion of it many threads ago.

A commenter at another site made reference to one or more photos that show rust stains at the cottage, but I don't have a link handy. Perhaps someone else does. The onus is on the prosecution to prove that a substance is blood, and they failed miserably to do so. If anything, their own tests...

Luminol reacts with many things besides fruit juice, such as rust and other metal ions. It also reacts with animal blood. Sara Gino testified (p. 258, Massei Report) that about 50% of the luminol-positive areas were negative by TMB in her experience. It is highly doubtful that this is only...

With all due respect, this does not describe Amanda and Raffaele's supporters at all. I discount the evidence, because the evidence itself tells me to discount it. Let me briefly provide one example to illustrate what I mean. I would not take the luminol footprints as evidence against...

Until I read the CSC's motivation report, I might have thought that going back made sense, but not afterward: "The outcome of such an organic evaluation will be decisive, not only to demonstrate the presence of the two defendants at the crime scene, but also possibly to clarify the subjective...

Massei heard some evidence, but his discussion of it is not wholly correct IMO. The problem was that the prosecution changed its TOD to a much later time in its closing remarks in December, 2009. Raffaele's appeal addressed the issue, but I would have liked to have seen additional experts...

This. Nencini's failure to compel discovery of the forensic files alone is ridiculous and unfair. But the failure of the Nencini court to look into the cell phone data, the computer data, and the duodenum data is astonishing. There are two strong lines of evidence that Meredith died before 10...

It is paradoxical that Mr. Maresca complains that Meredith is being forgotten, but then berates Amanda Knox for directing people toward a fund, one of whose purposes is to keep Meredith Kercher's memory alive.

One, the issue of whether or not the Kercher family attended is a simple question of fact, as far as I am concerned. There are a minimum of two sources which say that they arrived on the 6th, which means that they could not have attended the vigil. I draw no inference whatsoever about the date...

Dr. Balding did not examine the egram from the Y-chromosomal amplification.

I'm glad you said so: Conti and Vecchiotti are well regarded scientists in the field of forensic DNA. With respect to bleach the paper to consult IIRC is: A. M. Prince, L. Andrus PCR: How to kill unwanted DNA Biotechniques Vol. 12, pp 358-360.

I suggest that you read the links to the C&V report I just provided to clear up your misunderstanding. However, I would like to emphasize that the clasp was stored in the presence of extraction buffer and rusted. Under these circumstances no one should be surprised that it was not possible to...

Conti and Vecchiotti wrote, "but we cannot accept the conclusion stating that “the genetic profile is compatible with the hypothesis of a mixture of biological substances (presumably flaking cells) belonging” only ”to Raffaele Sollecito and to Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher” insofar as, from what...

Nonsense. Upon rereading the C&V report I would say that they attempted to extract DNA from the clasp, despite the presence of rust. That extraction came up negative for DNA. Conti and Vecchiotti analyzed the egram of the bra clasp from Stefanoni's extraction (Balding analyzed the same...

DNA from a bleached sample would show evidence of degradation. This sample did not show such evidence.