Meredith Kercher murdered-Amanda Knox appeals conviction #13
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200 cases? I think you're using a very loose meaning of the word "working." They may have that many cases pending, but I doubt they are seriously focused on more than a few at a time.
I think Malkmus' point was that EVERY misstatement by AK or RS is labeled a "lie" by ILE and a "whopper lie" by you. And yet a professional such as Mignini is held to a lower standard.
Prosecutors are advocates (even if Italian law tries to portray them as detached and unbiased). They know full well the significance of how they report evidence.
This is the crux of it. If the High Court has ruled that: " Kercher was killed by more than one person in a brutal and orgiastic attack." then it would take some real independence and audacity to rule now that Guede in fact acted alone, or that 2 others must now be sought in Perugia. This is dark indeed.
I don't think anyone defended CNN. But we've discussed media bias at length here before, fred. I doubt you missed it.
There is no "story" if AK is guilty as charged and convicted. At this point, there's only a story if she was falsely convicted in a miscarriage of justice.
THAT is CNN's bias: having a story to fill air time.
As Malkmus has already pointed out, if there were some grand conspiracy against Mignini here, CNN could have withheld the transcript.
BBM: That's not what Mignini claims. In the transcript he claims he is an "assistant on appeal."
What's with the "little girl" $hit?! Who calls her that other than you, otto?
She was relatively young and inexperienced at the time of the murder, but who says she was a child?
How do you reach this conclusion? I thought MK's blood was on the bathmat in AK's bathroom. AK didn't have to enter MK's room to step in MK's blood. (ETA and Malkmus has pointed out there is DNA from other females in the same sample. Were those unidentified females also in MK's room after the murder?)
Again, not what Mignini says, but why should we believe him?
I second Malkmus' request for examples. You keep insisting we "can't deny" that CNN used trickery, but it seems you can't show it did.
I can only say that they seemed to splice it, so that Mignini came off as less learned, less professional, less sensitive, and more buffoonish. They had their own agenda, as Mignini has his. Mignini in the transcript sounds impartial and sensitive: UNTIL YOU COME TO THE MIXED BLOOD BIT. :banghead:
That's only half the equation. The other half is ILE exaggerating if not outright lying to make their suspect look bad in the absence of actual evidence.
All verbal jousting aside, surely you can understand why the Italian judicial system concerns those of us who look upon it from afar.
The prosecutor is considered a type of judge, not just an advocate for the State's case. The judges serve on the jury (and most likely dictate its verdict); so the same persons who deny defense motions get to later ignore those denials.
And now it turns out that the trial prosecutor serves as an assistant to the very appellate court that is supposed to review his work!
It's hard not to suspect the fix is in.
Has anyone seen stats on how many Italian criminal cases are actually overturned on appeal? I've heard it claimed the number is greater than in the U.S., but I haven't been able to find the actual data.
Is that ruling now binding on the appellate court? Previously the opposite has been stated here.
Still no evidence that the attack was "orgiastic" to anyone but Rudy Guede. But plenty of evidence that Italian courts are a joke.
How can court officers deny the testing of a purported semen stain and yet still conclude the attack was orgiastic?
I swear the more I learn about Italian courts, the more I am reminded of the old jokes about Italian trains (the latter proving entirely true when I was there).
And yet here you are, day after day.
(ETA I do agree with you. I follow this case because it interests me, not because I think I have any influence on Italian courts. I just think your pointing that out is a pot/kettle situation.)
It sure is looking that way, isn't it?
Can you be more specific, please? What answers were changed? What "off-base" things were reported?
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I guess Migini was not in his very comfy bed and called in it appears that he was down the hallway
1103 CNN: No one hit her?
1106 Mignini: No, look, absolutely not. I can state this in the most positive way, and then, lets say I wasnt there when she was being questioned by police, the rooms are quite far away you dont know but I was its quite far, theres a corridor, and I was with the director, Dr. Porfazio, and she was being questioned in a different place. I also remember that passing through, I also saw Sollecito who was alone in a different room; he was also being questioned, as I recall. I dont exclude well its clear that I wasnt there, but I dont believe that anything whatsoever happened, and in my presence absolutely not.
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1103 CNN: No one hit her?
1106 Mignini: No, look, absolutely not. I can state this in the most positive way, and then, lets say I wasnt there when she was being questioned by police, the rooms are quite far away you dont know but I was its quite far, theres a corridor, and I was with the director, Dr. Porfazio, and she was being questioned in a different place. I also remember that passing through, I also saw Sollecito who was alone in a different room; he was also being questioned, as I recall. I dont exclude well its clear that I wasnt there, but I dont believe that anything whatsoever happened, and in my presence absolutely not.
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