Great News - Knox And Sollecito Acquitted Of Kercher Murder

[Arthurgray50@blu]

http://news.sky.com/story/1454247/kn...kercher-murder


This great news, and it must now be put to bed.

[MalteseFalcon]

Great news for Knox and Solilecito, but not great for Kercher's parents. Or do they not matter in this?

[denphone]

Sadly no one is a winner here.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

http://news.sky.com/story/1454247/kn...kercher-murder


This great news, and it must now be put to bed.

GreAt to see your emotional intelligence training is working Arthur.

Would you feel the same if your daughter had died in similar circumstances?

[MalteseFalcon]

Originally Posted by Mr Banana

GreAt to see your emotional intelligence training is working Arthur.

Would you feel the same if your daughter had died in similar circumstances?

However, if they were wrongly convicted, the real killer is still out there.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Hugh

However, if they were wrongly convicted, the real killer is still out there.

Rudy Guede, originally from the Ivory Coast, is serving a 16-year sentence for the crime, but judges in the previous trials ruled he did not act alone.

Reuters

So they already had one guy in jail for the crime. I wonder why they also had these two in the same frame?

How is this "great news"

Originally Posted by MarkC1984

Great news for Knox and Solilecito, but not great for Kercher's parents. Or do they not matter in this?

The parents of Meredith Kercher have a right to expect justice. They do not have a right to see their own preferred suspects behind bars, just because at some point an Italian police officer told them he thought they were guilty.

So, no, to that extent, they don't matter. This is not about them. This is about two innocent people who have been pursued to the point of victimisation by prosecutors who have been using the victim's flat mates as scapegoats for their own failures - aided and abetted by a bizarre Italian legal system that seems to have allowed an appeal against an acquittal without there having been any compelling new evidence at all.

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Originally Posted by martyh

How is this "great news"

Because the useless Italian police have now finally got to confront their own failings and start looking for the actual murderer, rather than continuing to try to scapegoat the victim's flat mates.

If the Italian police are so inept and incompetent then Knox may be guilty may be innocent this is the problem when things aren't funded enough to adequately train which has been an issue for a few european forces for quite a while. Perhaps another thing for all voters to keep in mind when they cast their vote in the near election cost cutting doesn't just save money it leads to mickey mouse officers and likewise practice's which end up denying justice the opposite of what they are for.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by RizzyKing

If the Italian police are so inept and incompetent then Knox may be guilty may be innocent this is the problem when things aren't funded enough to adequately train which has been an issue for a few european forces for quite a while. Perhaps another thing for all voters to keep in mind when they cast their vote in the near election cost cutting doesn't just save money it leads to mickey mouse officers and likewise practice's which end up denying justice the opposite of what they are for.

Bear in mind that there are supposed to be checks and balances built into the legal system to prevent people being prosecuted for a crime that it has not (for whatever reason) been adequately proved they committed. This is the same in ANY legal system, and is necessary because the Police don't always get things right. My mum was on a Jury once. The CPS were prosecuting someone who was apparently a known drug dealer, and in summing up the Judge actually said that while he actually had no doubt that the defendant was guilty, the Police had handled some parts of the evidence so badly that he had no choice but the let the defendant off. He also took the opportunity to give the Police a bit of a verbal slap for wasting the Court's time.

Remember, Amanda Knox has essentially been released twice now. This (IMO) casts doubt not only on the original investigation, but the legal system that allows anyone to be tried, released, retried then re-released.

Oh, and anyone willing to criticise this verdict saying it's unfair to Meridith's parents? Bear in mind that as Chris says, the fact that the Italian legal system handled this whole affair so badly that someone went to jail for a crime they didn't commit means that the real killer(s) essentially got away with it. As such, her parents got what looked like Justice but wasn't. Perhaps, if the investigation is re-opened, they will get real Justice.


It may be a little simplistic just to lay all of the blame for the failings of the Italian legal system on just cost cutting. In any event, the amount they've spent prosecuting, trying, releasing, re-trying then re-releasing her would probably pay for a *lot* of police officers to be adequately trained.

Don't get me wrong, I don't know the situation. There may be a lot of cost cutting involved, but I suspect there is also a lot of incompetence and attempted face saving.