Wrongful Convictions

This week, Bruce Fischer discussed the DNA evidence presented in the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito case, with Professor Christopher Halkides and Molecular Biologist Tom Zupancic, on the Injustice Anywhere Radio Program. On December 4, 2009, Amanda Knox & Raffaele Sollecito were wrongfully convicted for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. Meredith Kercher was murdered by Rudy Guede …

PROSECUTOR DOESN’T COPE: “STOP SOLLECITO BEFORE HE LEAVES” The compliments, the diplomacy, the courtesy toward the accusers… It has all been useless. The fair-play policy ended up in the worst possible way. This evening the discussion looked like one of those duels in which the exhausted sabreurs forgot all their art, drawing dirty blows, and pushing and kicking, too. The …

Peril in Florence Florence, 14 January 2014 Writers, readers, scientists, lawyers, judges, experts… the whole world by now understands that against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito there’s nothing, and loves to supports the end of a miscarriage of justice. But what about that part of the world that is important, the judges who will have to say guilty or innocent? …

Defense with Luca Maori to close on January 20th, Verdict on the 30th Florence, January 9, 2014 “I was arrested because they thought there was my shoe print under Meredith’s body,” Giulia Bongiorno said, making a parody, in her theatrical interpretation, of a weeping Raffaele. “No, no, no,” Bongiorno added. “Sollecito is wrong. He was arrested because he was the …

Florence trial: tomorrow January 9 closing arguments for Sollecito’s lawyers Giulia Bongiorno and Luca Maori. January 16 rebuttals. Verdict expected for January 20. Why do people accuse the accused, and don’t even want to hear it when there are reasons of innocence? There is already The State, the strongest power on earth, to do it! A whole prosecution office, a …

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~~Aristotle These words exemplify the ordeal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Italian court system.  First the Perugian authorities, then the tabloids and finally the Internet trolls deliberately and repeatedly twisted the facts of the murder investigation to fool the public into believing that the pair …