Wrongful Convictions

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Part Three – Myths twentyone to forty Myth 21 – Amanda is sex crazed because she owned a sex toy Amanda had been given a joke going away present.  It was a novelty …

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Part Two – Myths one to twenty Myth 1 – The Confession that was not a confession There never was a confession, though this is not what the Rag inspired trolls would have …

  “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy                                                                                                              Part One – Setting the scene   Introduction – there are none so blind as those who will not see   In my other articles about this case I have explained the circumstances in …

Raffaele Sollecito Raffaele Sollecito should be feeling pretty good about the success of his new book Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox, as he recently returned home to Italy after a successful book tour in the United States. His book is currently listed on the New York Times Best Seller List for e-books in the …

When British exchange student Meredith Kercher was murdered in November 2007, the world’s media descended on the medieval hill town of Perugia, Italy with a passion.  From the start the case was always about Amanda Knox, the photogenic 20 year old from Seattle who along with Raffaele Sollecito and a third person were accused and later convicted of the crime. …

  Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is always looking for ways to improve itself.  This year they have awarded a Wikimedia Fellowship to one of their senior editors, Steven Zhang, to study dispute resolution.  The efforts to reform this troubled aspect of their otherwise amazingly effective model cannot come too soon. The most important example …