lordweiner27

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lordweiner27 14 Dec 2009 11:21 UTC
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in reply to: kodos96’s comment on: You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event
I agree. I can’t comment on how rare or common it is though. But I’m certainly going to be careful not to lie when I inevitably end up in court.

lordweiner27 14 Dec 2009 11:20 UTC
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on: The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom
Having review your evidence and some other evidence that I was pointed in the direction of I have to admit I may have been wrong. Knox and the other guy are probably innocent.

There were a few things that lead me to my original conclusion: -The DNA evidence -Amanda changing her story -My belief that it was ridiculous that the police would go to all this effort to frame them if they were innocent.

The DNA evidence has been refuted, I can’t say I understand this but I’m willing to accept there is a lot of doubt there.

Amanda changing her story seems like evidence that she is a liar and seems a ridiculous thing to do if you are a murder suspect. (I still think it was really stupid of her and totally the wrong thing to do.) But at the the time she wasn’t more of a witness than a suspect and she possibly believed that this would get her off the hook and out of interrogation.

The third point about the police conspiracy is the most interesting. I have a huge bias against conspiracy theories. As soon as anyone starts to go “Wake up sheeple, you’re being controlled.” I immediately switch off. The quote you use from me at the beginning of your article is partly a reference to this. Of course you are right juries can be wrong. I just tend to think that the simplest answer is normally the best. That’s it’s more likely that she is guilty, than that the police dept in Italy have a massive desire to convict and innocent woman.

However on reading more about the case, I discovered that the police had a theory it was Knox, Sollecito and Knox’s boss before the evidence about Guede turned up. They announced this to the world. When Guede turned up, which normally would have been the end of the case they stuck with their original theory substituting Guede for Knox’s boss.
So their motive for wanting to convict Knox and Sollecito was not a conscious devious one but an unconscious subtle one. The didn’t want to be embarrassed and shown to be wrong in the eyes of the world media.

Btw, this is the third time I’ve been proved to be wrong on the internet this week. Either I’m not a very good rationalist or I just spend to much time on the internet.
What links here?
- Amanda Knox: post mortem by gwern (20 Oct 2011 16:10 UTC; 48 points)

lordweiner27 11 Dec 2009 13:04 UTC
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on: You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event
Does anyone else think that if Knox is innocent she only has herself to blame for changing her story so many times and for implicating an innocent man?

Maybe that’s harsh of me to say and if she is innocent she obviously doesn’t deserve jail but it’s kind of hard to feel sorry for her.

lordweiner27 10 Dec 2009 9:51 UTC
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in reply to: Jack’s comment on: You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event
1. Just because they were intoxicated doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be able to tell us where they were. I have never been drunk enough in my entire life to not remember what house I slept at. Have you?
The fact that no recording of the interrogations was ever released is incredibly damning.

So because the police were idiots and didn’t record the interrogations that means they faked the evidence? What would be the police’s motivation for faking the evidence?

My understanding from what I saw was that no evidence re: purchasing cleaning products was ever introduced.

Evidence is held back for lots of reasons, doesn’t didn’t happen. It was on the wikipedia page so I’m taking it as fact.
1. No. I’d love a link to them. However I can’t invision reasonable argument against DNA evidence, unless there’s evidence of a massive police conspiracy.

lordweiner27 10 Dec 2009 2:13 UTC
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in reply to: Threads’s comment on: You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event

While there were more inconsistencies than I would have expected (judging just on the general fallibility of human memory), I felt that Knox’s alibi of being exposed to extended interrogation was enough to account for the inconsistencies.

I don’t. She changed her story at least three times. And I’m sorry but if I was an innocent suspect in a murder trial you’d have to rape me up the arse with a barb wire dildo to get me to change my story from the truth.

lordweiner27 10 Dec 2009 2:10 UTC
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in reply to: mattnewport’s comment on: You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event
The wikipedia article states that Guede was known to the couple and to the others in their house.

lordweiner27 10 Dec 2009 2:08 UTC
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in reply to: mattnewport’s comment on: You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event
Sure this type of murder is rare, otherwise it wouldn’t have made the news. That’s not evidence the other two aren’t guilty. Not when we have her hand on the knife and his foot in her blood.

lordweiner27 10 Dec 2009 2:04 UTC
2 points
on: You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event
Amanda Knox being Guilty: 90%

Raffaele Sollecito being Guilty 90%

Rudy Guede being guilty: 90%

I hope you agree with me because no one else in the comments seem too. I’m gonna give the probability of you agreeing with me 75% based on my own arrogance and belief that I’m right and based and little else really.

Most people seem to believe Rudy Guede is guilty so lets skip that and look at the other two. They’ve changed their stories and have been proven to have lied quite a few times. For example Rudy at one point said he was at home surfing the internet but his alibi is not substantiated by records of his internet service provider.
Amanda at one point said she was round Rudy’s house till 10am (later changing her story) but according to a witness she was at the store as soon as it opened to buy cleaning products.

That alone is some strong evidence that they are both guilty.

If they were innocent there would be no need to lie.

Probably the most damning piece of evidence is this:

When Sollecito’s home was searched, a knife was found in a kitchen drawer that contained small traces of Kercher’s DNA on the blade, and Knox’s on the handle.

There really is no other explanation for that. Unless she was round Sollecito’s home at some earlier date and cut herself on his knife.

Here’s another nail in the coffin:

Sollecito’s footprint was found in blood in Kercher’s room.
Don’t forget this was behind a locked door!

Add all that evidence to the cleaning up afterwards, the body being covered, the rape fantasies Knox had, Sollecito’s DNA on her bra etc. etc. All three of them clearly killed her. The jury clearly believed so as well which strengthens my argument. They spent months examining the case, so the idea that a few minutes of internet research makes you certain they’re wrong seems laughable.
What links here?
- The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom by komponisto (13 Dec 2009 4:16 UTC; 57 points)
- Amanda Knox: post mortem by gwern (20 Oct 2011 16:10 UTC; 48 points)