“I’m distinguishing between a break-in and a burglary.”
I’m not sure where you are posting from but to me, “burglary” entails breaking in to a place. Are you using the word “burglary” to mean “theft”?
“evening of group sex/ satanic rites without ever communicating by cell phone, coerce Meredith Kercher into participating and when she refuses Guede rapes her and then the men hold her down while Knox stabs her several times and slits her throat.”
FWIW I am skeptical of the prosecution’s scenario. I think they cooked it up to address a big weak point in their case, which is that they don’t have a clear motive. My position is more limited: Simply I’m reasonably confident that Knox and her boyfriend were involved in the murder.
I’m not sure where you are posting from but to me, “burglary” entails breaking in to a place. Are you using the word “burglary” to mean “theft”?
Burglary entails breaking-in + theft. Breaking-in does not entail theft and therefore does not entail burglary. But I might have made that up myself. My point is just that someone could have broken the window and entered the house with intentions other than stealing something and then tossed some things about to make it look like the reason they entered was to steal something.
Technically, burglary also includes breaking in + intent to commit a certain other crimes. For example,if you break into somebody’s residence in order to commit rape (with no intent to steal anything), that would be considered burglary under the traditional definition.
But anyway, putting aside semantic issues, it seems you basically concede the reasonable point that staging a crime scene was likely to have been done by somebody with a significant connection to the victim.
“I’m distinguishing between a break-in and a burglary.”
I’m not sure where you are posting from but to me, “burglary” entails breaking in to a place. Are you using the word “burglary” to mean “theft”?
“evening of group sex/ satanic rites without ever communicating by cell phone, coerce Meredith Kercher into participating and when she refuses Guede rapes her and then the men hold her down while Knox stabs her several times and slits her throat.”
FWIW I am skeptical of the prosecution’s scenario. I think they cooked it up to address a big weak point in their case, which is that they don’t have a clear motive. My position is more limited: Simply I’m reasonably confident that Knox and her boyfriend were involved in the murder.
Burglary entails breaking-in + theft. Breaking-in does not entail theft and therefore does not entail burglary. But I might have made that up myself. My point is just that someone could have broken the window and entered the house with intentions other than stealing something and then tossed some things about to make it look like the reason they entered was to steal something.
“Burglary entails breaking-in + theft.”
Technically, burglary also includes breaking in + intent to commit a certain other crimes. For example,if you break into somebody’s residence in order to commit rape (with no intent to steal anything), that would be considered burglary under the traditional definition.
But anyway, putting aside semantic issues, it seems you basically concede the reasonable point that staging a crime scene was likely to have been done by somebody with a significant connection to the victim.