“while Knox’s defenders have no trouble complaining that jurors judged her unfairly based on her behavior in the days after the murder (purchasing sexy lingerie, frolicking around town and making out with her boyfriend), they don’t mind pointing out her gentle appearance—or arguing that she has a reputation for being “sweet and generous and kind” etc. In other words—they’re fine with exploiting Knox’s image only to the extent it lines up with the idea that she’s “not the type” who could kill another human being in connection with an act of sexual violence”
After a while people will be accountable for the evidence they choose to acknowledge or not. Things like this are inconsequential and incidental. Stick to the evidence. Talk about that. You will be voting for civilization and the rule of law or rule by thugs.
What I am finding is that a few people who are commenting here are consistently making the mistake that komponisto described. They are not leaving their perceptual fallacies.
For instance this statement:
“Amanda Knox was a roommate of Meredith Knox’s; the initial likelihood of her being responsible is raised by that fact alone. It is normal for police to question motives of people close to the decedent, and it is good practice.”
First of all, if the roommate question is enough to bring her in for questioning, then it should be on the same level as the inquiry toward the other two roommates, and this also puts Raffaele further out on the proximity scale. But these checks should be quick and cleared by the lack of physical evidence.
And this statement:
“Wife...confesses to giving $3,000 in cash she had squirreled away to someone (a description, but no name and he’s gone) to shoot Hubby… Is the confession noise? We have no physical evidence. That’s somewhat dissimilar to your assertion, I understand. Let’s take it back a step...”
This has been checked as well. Given the lack of physical evidence, then evidence of conspiracy or collusion gets checked. There was no evidence of this either.
And the following statement:
″...but the behavior is evidence.”
Not when there is no evidence of conspiracy, collusion, or physical evidence because then you are going back to the mistakes described by komponisto in the post.
micio quoted:
“while Knox’s defenders have no trouble complaining that jurors judged her unfairly based on her behavior in the days after the murder (purchasing sexy lingerie, frolicking around town and making out with her boyfriend), they don’t mind pointing out her gentle appearance—or arguing that she has a reputation for being “sweet and generous and kind” etc. In other words—they’re fine with exploiting Knox’s image only to the extent it lines up with the idea that she’s “not the type” who could kill another human being in connection with an act of sexual violence”
After a while people will be accountable for the evidence they choose to acknowledge or not. Things like this are inconsequential and incidental. Stick to the evidence. Talk about that. You will be voting for civilization and the rule of law or rule by thugs.
What I am finding is that a few people who are commenting here are consistently making the mistake that komponisto described. They are not leaving their perceptual fallacies.
For instance this statement:
“Amanda Knox was a roommate of Meredith Knox’s; the initial likelihood of her being responsible is raised by that fact alone. It is normal for police to question motives of people close to the decedent, and it is good practice.”
First of all, if the roommate question is enough to bring her in for questioning, then it should be on the same level as the inquiry toward the other two roommates, and this also puts Raffaele further out on the proximity scale. But these checks should be quick and cleared by the lack of physical evidence.
And this statement:
“Wife...confesses to giving $3,000 in cash she had squirreled away to someone (a description, but no name and he’s gone) to shoot Hubby… Is the confession noise? We have no physical evidence. That’s somewhat dissimilar to your assertion, I understand. Let’s take it back a step...”
This has been checked as well. Given the lack of physical evidence, then evidence of conspiracy or collusion gets checked. There was no evidence of this either.
And the following statement:
″...but the behavior is evidence.”
Not when there is no evidence of conspiracy, collusion, or physical evidence because then you are going back to the mistakes described by komponisto in the post.
Use a ‘>’ at the start of a paragraph that is a quotation