What happens now? Does that mean the police have to look for more killers?
I’m a bit confused that they are so confused. Guede’s verdict is still guilty. How in the process of the appeal were they not introduced to the notion that their daughter could simply have been killed by one person without co conspirators?
How in the process of the appeal were they not introduced to the notion that their daughter could simply have been killed by one person without co conspirators?
The same way they avoided being introduced to it during the first-level trial: by not listening to the defense arguments.
That, it occurs to me, was their mistake, and is why they are in my opinion fully worthy of criticism for the stance they have taken. From the beginning, they appear to have only gotten their information through prosecution filters. (They admit as much when they speak of having to trust the police; but they didn’t have to trust the police—they could have attended the trial and listened to the arguments, which they didn’t do.) It isn’t that they can’t be excused for feeling harshly toward the people they believe killed their daughter/sister; it’s that they shouldn’t have allowed themselves to become convinced that Knox and Sollecito killed her without listening to what Knox and Sollecito’s attorneys had to say first.
(Indeed, I find it somewhat telling that they flew in in time to hear the verdict, but not to hear Knox and Sollecito address the court earlier the same day.)
Good question. The father actually answers it in one of the handful of quotes given by the press. They were convinced by the prosecution that the crime could not have been committed by one person—this was probably a key component of Knox and Sollecito’s initial guilty verdict. The father said,
There were 47 wounds on Meredith and two knives used. One person couldn’t possibly have done that.
I think it is a good sign that in his confusion, the father is clinging to facts. I think it is a matter of time before they see things more clearly. Despite their emotional state, the parents seem to have a better than average relationship with epistemology.
I find it odd that the prosecution would ever have claimed that one person couldn’t possibly have done that. I mean, it’s their job to find reasons to believe in the guilt of the defendants, but a simple review of murder cases committed with knives should be able to dispense with that. I’ve only read several, but one of the things that surprised me was the sheer number of times which the perpetrators frequently stabbed the victim. In one case that I read, the murderer stabbed the victim over 90 times.
I suspect that murderers often continue in a panic or frenzy when they discover how hard it is to get their victim to die. An inexperienced knife wielder against a struggling victim can easily stab the victim dozens of times without inflicting a single individually fatal wound.
I’m a bit confused that they are so confused. Guede’s verdict is still guilty. How in the process of the appeal were they not introduced to the notion that their daughter could simply have been killed by one person without co conspirators?
The same way they avoided being introduced to it during the first-level trial: by not listening to the defense arguments.
That, it occurs to me, was their mistake, and is why they are in my opinion fully worthy of criticism for the stance they have taken. From the beginning, they appear to have only gotten their information through prosecution filters. (They admit as much when they speak of having to trust the police; but they didn’t have to trust the police—they could have attended the trial and listened to the arguments, which they didn’t do.) It isn’t that they can’t be excused for feeling harshly toward the people they believe killed their daughter/sister; it’s that they shouldn’t have allowed themselves to become convinced that Knox and Sollecito killed her without listening to what Knox and Sollecito’s attorneys had to say first.
(Indeed, I find it somewhat telling that they flew in in time to hear the verdict, but not to hear Knox and Sollecito address the court earlier the same day.)
Good question. The father actually answers it in one of the handful of quotes given by the press. They were convinced by the prosecution that the crime could not have been committed by one person—this was probably a key component of Knox and Sollecito’s initial guilty verdict. The father said,
I think it is a good sign that in his confusion, the father is clinging to facts. I think it is a matter of time before they see things more clearly. Despite their emotional state, the parents seem to have a better than average relationship with epistemology.
I find it odd that the prosecution would ever have claimed that one person couldn’t possibly have done that. I mean, it’s their job to find reasons to believe in the guilt of the defendants, but a simple review of murder cases committed with knives should be able to dispense with that. I’ve only read several, but one of the things that surprised me was the sheer number of times which the perpetrators frequently stabbed the victim. In one case that I read, the murderer stabbed the victim over 90 times.
I suspect that murderers often continue in a panic or frenzy when they discover how hard it is to get their victim to die. An inexperienced knife wielder against a struggling victim can easily stab the victim dozens of times without inflicting a single individually fatal wound.