How do you think we may have paid for this? The U.S. government reportedly did not get involved at all. Do you think the appeals court was bought off?
Well, there will be hundreds of pages of reasoning from the court, within 90 days. It was the hundreds of pages of reasoning after the first trial that got a lot of people thinking differently about the possibility that the pair were guilty. It will be interesting to see.
But as it stands, from what came out in the appeals court (and what I reviewed prior), there was no credible forensic evidence against the pair. There were incriminating statements fed to two scared, young people, who had just met 7 days prior to the murder, one of whom could barely speak Italian, and there was forensic evidence against Guede, a transient, but no proof he actually knew the couple.
In general, it was thought that because Knox acted apathetically, did cartwheels and snuggled cozily with her boyfriend after the murder, had pre-marital sex and smoked pot, that somehow she and a guy she just met, hooked up with an African immigrant drifter and decided to have a sex orgy and smoke dope which made them crazy and all rape and kill Meredith, out of the blue. I think that's what made the appeals court render the verdict they did, not being paid off.
I'm a lawyer. I'm trained to see all angles of a case and to be able to argue both sides. To me, what they presented as evidence of guilt of the two doesn't come close to reasonable. Once I learned the couple had barely met, there was no provable connection to Guede, and the reality of the forensics involved (it's virtually impossible to clean a crime scene in a way that destroys only evidence of your own involvement but leaves evidence of another party's involvement), etc., etc., I realized there was no real case.
At first I thought those who immediately thought Knox was innocent were simply being zealous in their nationalism and suspicion of foreign governments, or sympathetic to one of "ours", a cute, little female one of ours at that. There may remain a tad bit of that sentiment but I don't think that's the reason, for the most part, why many feel they are innocent. I think it's the facts, or lack thereof, the improbability of the theories expounded by Mignini, his own, proven corruption and the media smear campaining, painting a young girl as a murderous *advertiser censored* simply because she had premarital sex, smoked pot and was too immature and/or selfish to realize the magnitude of what had happened to her roommate and act accordingly. :twocents:
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