AA9511- I've done some more thinking on your question and I'd like to use a sports analogy to explain why I get so heated when discussing Steffanoni and the prosecutions handling of evidence. Consider the case like a football game where the refererees' calls (in this case the analysis and interpretation of evidence and the carrying out of interrogations) all seem to go against one team. As an impartial viewer of the game, I become a little suspicious. What if then, on instant replay, the replays show that many but not all of the calls were unjustified (in this case, the instant replays are represented by C-V's court appointed impartial criticism of Steffanoni's work). I bet then you might become VERY suspicious of the referees impartiality. What if then these penalties are determined to be non-reviewable plays (in this case MK's purported DNA on the knife, RS's DNA on the now rusted bra clasp, the luminol positive/TMB negative footprints, the fried harddrives and even the interrogation since none of these can be retested or revisited). Additionally, what if some of these non-reviewable plays had a significant impact on the game ( in this case resulting in a guilty verdict; note I am presuming the worst in the current trial). Now, what if the losing team appeals the game to the commisioner of the league (in the case the ISC) and the commisioner says, "too bad, those are the rules and you have to live with the results (I have little hope that a guilty verdict would be reversed by the ISC). I bet that you, as a unbiased fan, would be disgusted with the referees (in this case the prosecution's interrogators and their scientific experts (Steffanoni and the computer analysts)). You might even be a little disgusted with the rules that allowed this travesty to occur and the commissioner who had it in his discretion to make things right but didn't. You are at least hoping that the referees would get penalized in some way, maybe get suspended or lose their jobs completely.
This is how I feel about the conduct of this entire case. It truly makes me disgusted with the entire Italian justice system AS IT PERTAINS TO THIS CASE. My disgust is particularly harsh toward Steffanoni since her work was done in an area where I have a little expertese.
