Knox and Sollecito found guilty this go-around. Sad interview with Kercher's brother and sister. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25941999
― ljubljana, Friday, 31 January 2014 00:35 (ten years ago) link
Goddamn Italy has a kangaroo court justice system. No way this woman should be extradited. What a joke.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 31 January 2014 02:01 (ten years ago) link
I'm totally out of touch with this. What's the most reasonable position on what actually happened?
― cardamon, Friday, 31 January 2014 02:10 (ten years ago) link
this is still going on? wtf italy!?
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Friday, 31 January 2014 02:10 (ten years ago) link
Cardamom, there was a guy who broke into the apartment and robbed them who pleaded guilty to murdering her. The evidence against him was, i think, stronger than against knox.
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Friday, 31 January 2014 02:12 (ten years ago) link
Ah yeah - now I remember. Was there something about her being involved with the robber in some way?
(What I'm doing here is prob very annoying as I could surely google all this, ffs, but secretly I want to know what ilx people think about this)
― cardamon, Friday, 31 January 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
The robber scenario is totally separate from the knox/sollecito(sp?) scenario but all accused parties have been found guilty. That's the central absurdity of this thing.
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Friday, 31 January 2014 03:24 (ten years ago) link
Knox should never step foot into Canada or Mexico again.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 31 January 2014 03:26 (ten years ago) link
iirc the prosecutor is some sort of tabloid-driven conspiracy magnet? it all seems kind of fucked up and based more on what makes an interesting court narrative than the truth
― mh, Friday, 31 January 2014 04:04 (ten years ago) link
This sort of reminds me of how those (4? 5?) Australians are being threatened with being put on trial remotely whether they like it or not in South America cos the cops there claim they pushed some guy off a balcony when it is so screamingly obvious even in pics it wasnt possble (and they werent actually there at the time).
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Friday, 31 January 2014 04:10 (ten years ago) link
http://www.smh.com.au/world/framed-for-murder-20130812-2rqxg.html
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Friday, 31 January 2014 04:12 (ten years ago) link
sooooo i've just been reading one of these kook-ball "WE present the REAL STORY" web sites and i've done a total 180 on this, just as the authors intended; it sure does seem like sollecito at least was there
also reading the details again is horrifying
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
the whole thing is so addicting if you have an appetite for mysteries; it reminds me of intense wave of newsgroup "fact"-marshalling around the OJ trial, vast armies with their favorite pieces of pet evidence
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 01:27 (ten years ago) link
link please?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
it's at the obviously unbiased "truejustice.org"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 09:15 (ten years ago) link
Criminal justice in Europe is generally a disaster. Defense attorney culture was wiped out in WWII, and the inquisitorial legal system has become over the decades a rubber stamp for the State's Attorneys. This is not that big a deal where the SAs are professional and serious people -- but that will differ from province to province, let alone nation to nation -- and sentences are generally lighter than in the Anglo-American system, so that the unofficial but real tendency is to convict where there is any doubt in absolute innocence, because what's the harm? The harm is that the tendency towards heavier punishment is solidly on the march throughout Europe, and that common law countries have to figure out what to do with conviction from other nations they have treaties with that would never have been convictions in the common law country.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 10:24 (ten years ago) link
Americans berating the legal system of other countries is a constant source of hilarity
― zonal snarking (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 13:31 (ten years ago) link
http://politicalblindspot.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/17.jpg"I know, right?"
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
Yes, Yes, Florida's acquittal of George Zimmerman disqualifies all Americans from criticizing one of our citizens from being tried three times, and acquitted once, by a kangaroo court that allowed psychic testimony and already has the murder behind bars. We get it, blah blah blah blah
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
...the murderer behind bars...
dang, Bill pretty on point here
― mh, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
i wasnae thinking of one trial tbh
any criticisms of the Kercher case - and i'm sure there are many valid ones - ought to be made from a standpoint that doesn't try to compare Italy's justice system with yr own morally corrupt, racist, murderous justice system tho. ours is reasonably morally corrupt and racist too tbf
― zonal snarking (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
there's also a fair leap from "these trials have been conducted in such a way as to make any conviction completely unsafe" and "yay Knox is totally innocent no question", so to say "the murderer is behind bars" is a bit of a stretch
― zonal snarking (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
well, there's innocence before the law and innocence in the sense of whether or not you did commit the crime
― mh, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
"Americans berating the legal system of other countries is a constant source of hilarity"
So's your red nose, floppy shoes, and rainbow wig, you clown.
1. I haven't been an American for over a decade. 2. I spent a year on a Robert Bosch Fellowship studying comparative criminal law, including internships with a private defense attorney and at the German Justice Ministry, and was the negotiation team for the Germans in negotiations on an EU criminal law cooperation treaty. 3. I am specifically contrasting the civil law legal systems of continental Europe with common law systems such as the US, the UK, canada, etc. 4. In most of Europe, Zimmerman would never have been brought to trial, following a years'-long and terribly expensive "investigation". 5. Wannabe progressives who think criminal prosecutors are allies in the fight for justice are, consciously or unconsciously, white supremacist elitist dopes. 6. Your rainbow wig isn't actually that funny.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
again: i agree there are serious problems with the legal system in many European countries. to contrast the US and UK as models of "getting it right" is pretty fucken laughable to me
― zonal snarking (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
Goody for you! Who's suggesting that?
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
any criticisms of the Kercher case - and i'm sure there are many valid ones - ought to be made from a standpoint that doesn't try to compare Italy's justice system with yr own morally corrupt, racist, murderous justice system tho.
yeah I think everyone has just been pointing what is fucked up, not holding up anyone else's as an ideal
I mean unless you want to go on about the positives of the Italian justice system and how this is an amazing outlier and how it is better than other systems
― mh, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
5. Wannabe progressives who think criminal prosecutors are allies in the fight for justice are
Who did you have in mind here?
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
If the clown shoe fits...
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
ach, maybe we're all deliberately misreading each other's tone
maybe
― zonal snarking (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
I do think a criminal justice system is best measured on the quality of its defense bar and have a personal bias that convicted innocents are worse than acquitted bad guys. That's really the only point where I would say the US system is the best in the world, which is sadly not the same thing as saying it's any good.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
But if you're guilty and want to confess, pretty much anywhere else but the US has a better criminal justice system.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
maybe instead of talking about the relative merits of western criminal justice systems, which is sort of boring, we could talk about whether we think sollecito and knox dun it or not (which could involve the criminal justice system, of course; there are many many ppl out there who think the justice system has been stacked in favour of knox and sollectio, fwiw, ibid the aforementioned kook-town sites with encyclopedic knowledge of the various justices assigned to the case and their supposed ties to the mafia)
the other thing i want to talk about is how sollecito has transformed over the years!! he started out as, in knox's words, "an italian harry potter" and looks like a kind of thick-necked iron-pumpin' good ol' boy
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
i mean he NOW looks like a thick-necked iron-pumpin' good ol' boy. the change is remarkable
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
honestly i'm happy to know next to nothing about this case
― goole, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Maybe Knox had a wildly differing image of Harry after reading the books.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
for what it's worth TWU i also prefer a system that errs on the side of the defendant, and if i made my initial snipe after you posted that was mainly because i've read a lot lately that has a tone of condescencion to the Italians or fails to distinguish between an unsafe conviction and innocence
― zonal snarking (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
and my half-reading of your comment was the trigger, i shd add
the details are SO CRAZY though goole. i just go down a rabbit hole with it. there is a crazy amount of physical evidence. DNA on a knife. a set of bloody footprints. a different bloody (bare) footprint in the bathroom. an unflushed shit in the toilet. a seemingly staged break-in. WHERE IS KALINDA WHEN YOU NEED HER.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01240/perugia2_1240580c.jpg
http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/__NEW/tdy_mor_sollecito_140131.standard.jpg
ha i had to google that name
xp
― goole, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
xp -- Fair enough, NV, there is still bad feeling about the Zimmerman thread and my strawmanning thereon, so I came out aggressive.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
there was a guy who broke into the apartment and robbed them who pleaded guilty to murdering her. The evidence against him was, i think, stronger than against knox.
I thought Guede didn't plead guilty?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
I mean, I thought he'd admitted to being present when the murder was committed, not to the murder itself?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
tracer i get you, i love a good rabbit hole. but this whole thing just reads like nancy grace explaining a christopher nolan movie to me
― goole, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
sorry to trivialize a real actual murder but all the world is text etc
― goole, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
I tried to read the Wikipedia on this but could not understand any version of what supposedly happened.
― ryan, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
Have you ever considered a role in the Italian judiciary?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
goole bringing his classic sense of wordplay, hats off to you, sir
― mh, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link