I think it’s worth reading this if you think it’s some variety of a clear cut case.
It’s not worth reading that, unless you’re interested in a case study in deceptive reporting.
The case is extremely clear-cut. The major US media often got minor details wrong (especially details having to do with how the Italian legal system works), but seldom did they get the important evidence wrong. Their “one-sided presentation” was accurate.
By contrast, the linked article completely distorts the evidence. It reads like the stuff you read at pro-guilt hate sites. Example:
Knox’s DNA was found on the handle of the murder weapon
“The murder weapon”? The whole dispute is about whether the knife in question is the murder weapon!
– a knife belonging to Sollecito – and Kercher’s was found on the blade. Whether it’s really Kercher’s DNA is hotly contested by Knox supporters, but contamination was ruled out at the latest appeal.
The statement that “contamination was ruled out at the latest appeal” is the kind of willfully ignorant claim that only a cynical propagandist could possibly make. The fact is that contamination is extremely likely, as the court-appointed experts determined at the appeal in 2011. It’s true that the more recent appeals court, unlike its predecessor, decided not to listen to this finding. But they didn’t commission their own expert review (on this point); they just sided with the prosecution’s arguments. You might as well say that contamination was “ruled out” at the first trial.
I’m not going to bother going through the rest of the article; I suggest that anyone curious about the details have a look at the pro-innocencesites (and the pro-guiltsites, if they want to compare).
The major US media often got minor details wrong (especially details having to do with how the Italian legal system works)
Claiming that Guede implicated Sollecito and Knox as a part of a plea bargain and got his sentence cut down for that sounds quite major to me.
Likewise there’s a major disagreement with regards to the interrogation where Knox implicated Lumumba (whom the police later cleared, by the way, the same bad police); Knox claims it was after many hours long interrogation and she was literally hit on the head by some policeperson, police says she did this right away and denies brutality.
How the fuck is it a clear cut question that an American girl got hit by Italian police, on basis of her words alone? There’s nothing clear about allegations like this.
It’s not worth reading that, unless you’re interested in a case study in deceptive reporting.
The case is extremely clear-cut. The major US media often got minor details wrong (especially details having to do with how the Italian legal system works), but seldom did they get the important evidence wrong. Their “one-sided presentation” was accurate.
By contrast, the linked article completely distorts the evidence. It reads like the stuff you read at pro-guilt hate sites. Example:
“The murder weapon”? The whole dispute is about whether the knife in question is the murder weapon!
The statement that “contamination was ruled out at the latest appeal” is the kind of willfully ignorant claim that only a cynical propagandist could possibly make. The fact is that contamination is extremely likely, as the court-appointed experts determined at the appeal in 2011. It’s true that the more recent appeals court, unlike its predecessor, decided not to listen to this finding. But they didn’t commission their own expert review (on this point); they just sided with the prosecution’s arguments. You might as well say that contamination was “ruled out” at the first trial.
I’m not going to bother going through the rest of the article; I suggest that anyone curious about the details have a look at the pro-innocence sites (and the pro-guilt sites, if they want to compare).
Claiming that Guede implicated Sollecito and Knox as a part of a plea bargain and got his sentence cut down for that sounds quite major to me.
Likewise there’s a major disagreement with regards to the interrogation where Knox implicated Lumumba (whom the police later cleared, by the way, the same bad police); Knox claims it was after many hours long interrogation and she was literally hit on the head by some policeperson, police says she did this right away and denies brutality.
How the fuck is it a clear cut question that an American girl got hit by Italian police, on basis of her words alone? There’s nothing clear about allegations like this.