Judge Alessandro Nencini has now released the motivation report explaining the reasoning behind his court’s reconviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of Croydon student Meredith Kercher.  As expected, the report draws heavily on previous motivation reports relating to the conviction of Rudy Guede, a man who was tried separately from Knox and Sollecito who were not …

31 January 2014 His Excellency Alain Giorgio Maria Economides The Italian Ambassador 14 Three Kings’ Yard London W1K 4EH Dear Ambassador, We are writing to you as UK citizens who love Italy, its people and culture but are appalled by the way the Italian criminal justice system has failed the late Meredith Kercher by its vendetta against the innocent Amanda …

“Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself.  Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due.  Injustice is acting a lie.” – Horace Walpole The Meredith Kercher murder case has transfixed the media in three countries for six years and public interest shows no signs of waning.  Most coverage has been …

Analysis of a newspaper story “You can lead jurors to the truth but you can’t make them believe it. Physical evidence cannot be intimidated. It does not forget. It doesn’t get excited at the moment something is happening–like people do. It sits there and waits to be detected, preserved, evaluated, and explained. That is what physical evidence is all about. …

“We make our fervent pleas for the high road of justice, and then we tread unflinchingly the low road of injustice.  This strange dichotomy, this agonising gulf between the ought and the is, represents that tragic theme of man’s earthly pilgrimage.” – Martin Luther King Jr. The worst fate that can befall anyone is to be violently and senselessly murdered.  …

  Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”   One of the key items of evidence in the judicial …