In a move, Perugia prosecutors sent two police patrols to Rome today and tried to seize a DVD from the court-appointed independent experts who testified Monday in the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito appeals trial, according to Perugia-based blogger Frank Sfarzo.
This latest harassment follows threats by police forensic scientist Patrizia Stefanoni to sue the experts for false statements supposedly made in their 145-page, meticulously argued report. After a five-month investigation, the experts reject the forensics investigation, call the DNA tests unreliable, and identify 54 glaring mistakes that could free the two college students.
The former lovers are appealing their conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, Amandas flatmate. Their new, evidence-based trial has exposed the police investigation as Pink Pantherish and the lab work as shamelessly slipshod.