Amanda Knox Panel - The Case for Innocence

A forum of forensic and scientific experts, and authors gathered at the James C. Pigott Pavilion on the Seattle University campus Monday afternoon, April 4 and spoke to an audience of about 120 about the innocence, in their view, of West Seattle-raised Amanda Knox, convicted of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy.
http://www.westseattleherald.com/2011/04/04/news/amanda-knox-panel-makes-case...

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[bromchifray]

Perfect video. Amateur sound, recorded from somewhere in the back of the auditorium, picking up all coughs and grunts and whispering in the operator's booth (?) and randomn noises and what not.

Why?

[WestSeattleHerald]

@bromchifray We'd like to tell you that we have the budget for a high end video and audio production capability but as a small newspaper our budget to acquire gear for video production (especially gear with the necessary range and sophistication to pick up only the amplified audio and no other sounds) is too small. We do the best we can with what we have. You might recommend some gear but frankly it will fail to persuade management that we should spend the money.

[stefd321]

An open forum made up of only partizan / pro Knox speakers + a likewise Chairman. Good to see USA practices good democracy. Much of the deposition from this forum is heavily flawed - particularly the evidence presented by the former FBI agent about the staged break-in. This guy hasn't read the evidence.

[WestSeattleHerald]

@stefd321 On the contrary. They are among the few that DID read the evidence. BTW it's spelled p-a-r-t-i-s-a-n.

But being convinced of a belief in this case did not come BEFORE the evidence was viewed and weighed. There's nothing wrong with being in favor or opposed to one way of thinking or another but your comment suggests that these are universally incompetent people who simply accepted an idea with no thought. It's clear instead that most of those who believe in her guilt are simply wrong.

[stefd321]

@WestSeattleHerald

I need no English lesson from the West Seattle Herald. Partizan is a variant of Partisan - both mean the same and either version used. However, the West Seattle Herald can perhaps brush up on basic English comprehension. My succinct comment basically highlighted the fact that the debate was heavily weighed in favour (English UK spelling) of Knox. Here in London debates are represented by both sides of the argument. This debate was Partizan or even Partisan. Regards Stef.

[WestSeattleHerald]

@stefd321 Then perhaps you should look up the definition of debate. The panel was clearly

correct. It wasn't a debate in which two opposing sides argue their case. It was panel of assembled experts who presented their views on the evidence that had been assembled to convict Knox and Sollecito.

The spelling you refer to is British. This was an American panel of American experts.

[delweine]

@stefd321 yes he has, extensivley, and so have I, including the Massei report. i love what guilters and semi guilters do. u say it is heavily flawed.. ok, where is a panel of scientific rebuttal? where EXACTLY is his view "flawed".. anyone can scream foul, prove it!! make your case with specifics based on experts in their field.. many of Amanda supporters are experts in their field... show me the recognized experts on the other side who argue for guilt based on the facts?

[travellingboy1]

Now there really is an injustice in Perugia

[rollingstopp]

how come this gooh dee guy is going to get out in 8 yrs--sentence 16 but law usually gives you half .hhhhmmm .. rudee comming to a neighborhood near you

[Midnightryder7]

Amanda Knox is Innocent and so is her boyfriend

[Roseywellian]

@mcallkrm If she wanted to stage a break in why carry a rock inside, throw it at the windows with the shutters shut then go back outside to throw the rock away. She would have just thrown the rock from the outside. Like most of the prosecutions theories, it just doesn't make any sense at all. What does make sense is that they guy who's DNA was all over the crime scene who was known to recently break into multiple places and threaten people with knives did just that.

[stacerobin1]

@mcallkrm completely biased yes, but i'm not sure they ever put themselves out to be anything but biased, with an agenda. The very first person to speak is anecdotal. They are all personally and emotionally invested and they don't pretend not to be. They believed in her innocence and wanted to bring her home and they had every reason to, made clear by this presentation.

[mcallkrm]

I believe that many, perhaps most, of the panel members' points were valid but there was severe bias in the delivery of each talk. I thought the issue of the stageed break-in was glass on top of the clothes strewn around on the floor. The speaker was saying that the basis for claiming a stage break-in was glass underneath the clothes and other items. Anyway, how could these speakers not acknowledge some of the things that suggested guilt. Very biased.

[delweine]

 and police 47 days later sure seemed to be really obsessed in their video taping of that bra clasp, as if they knew they had the smoking gun.. so clear when looking at the whole case it was likely planted or contaminated. and where is a clear motive? the prosecution has changed that one a few times. staged break in? how lucky AK and RS must have been to know the exact M.O of Rudy Guede to throw rocks to break into to 2nd story windows.. Occams Razor has to be ignored to believe in the staging.

[delweine]

How convienant right? the odds of that happening to both hard drives from seperate computers are remote at best. the odds of not being able to extract the needed info are even more remote..this is just one aspect not covered in this presentation.. to the modern reasonable thinker, it is quite clear what happened in this case.. its a rail road job, all in order to get a conviction because of a preconceived presumption.

[delweine]

its also a fact that police managed to "fry-burn" Amanda's and Raff's Hard drives from their computers, which could have had exculpatory evidence to exhonorate them... I work in computer tech.. u can almost always get back info from a damaged HD using certain techniques in a clean room enviorment.. but where are the hard drives? the defense asked for them,, police said they were thrown away... these drives again, could have shown the 2 were on computers as they claimed. at the time of death