Meredith Kercher Case Day One

THE PRISONERS TRACK
Spelled by the Mouth of Criminals

Meredith at 19

(Upd.)

If the case of Amanda Knox is a war between Italy and America then the problem is simply solvable, like in all wars, with an exchange of prisoners.
Italy could hand over Knox and America could return Victorious Youth, detained in the Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, about which a judge recently ruled the confiscation.

But this is a war only in people's imagination, and those who wanted to take side, often with simple ideas, with tribal ideas, with insults, have procured only damages.
In these simplifications there was Perugia Shock too, which was the site that defends Amanda and Raffaele. I don't know why, since my position has always been completely different from the one of both defenses or supporters.
It seems to me that I always explained how there were clues for a crime committed by more people, that there was nothing much to say about Capezzali's testimony. I immediately advised that Curatolo was a nut and he was used by someone. I always explained that the house was surrounded by criminals and Rudi may have naturally gone there with one or two of them.
Besides that, I don't think I've taken part in the sanctification of Amanda Knox, in the demonization of Rudi and I always thought that Mignini's private troubles were his own business.

Now it seems that the defenses are coming to my positions, since the latest developments are bringing them to admit that more people committed the crime and that a sexual assault occurred. What a shame the change had to come from the revelations of His Honor, Mario Alessi.
I don't fall for the revealed truth, not even when it is from God, imagine if it comes from people like Mario Alessi or Luciano Aviello. The Truth comes from reasoning, not from a machine, from a test, from a witness, or a witness of a witness.

THE GREAT LIAR

We all remember too well Mario Alessi. If there is an abject being in the world, if there is an unreliable person, if there is a liar, that one is Mario Alessi. How to forget the way in which just three years ago he was reciting in front of the camera. He was making an appeal to the kidnappers of the little Tommy Onofri, who he had just stolen and killed.
Bring him back home, he was begging. Kids are not to be touched, he was preaching, kids are angels, he was teaching us. I'll give a party when they free him, he was exaggerating with his super creative lies.
He had just killed that angel. He had kidnapped Tommy, then he found out that little kids cry, and at the very first difficulty he decided that the plan had failed. Instead of returning Tommy, instead of abandoning him somewhere he found another solution: strangling him.
After the crime he started his show of lies. He seemed to enjoy the attention from the media, he liked showing to his woman and accomplice how good he was at acting, how great he was at making fun of a whole country.
Would you buy a used car from this man? Would you buy a used tale from him?

Alessi, now, brought himself again in front of a camera. Would you believe him when he says that Rudi Guede confessed to him and to others that things went differently? Or would you maybe think that he's looking for benefits? And benefits are important in jail, especially if you have to spend your life there.

Alessi makes the pair with another guest of italian jails, Luciano Aviello, who, during the trial, was writing to Massei that he knew that there were other killers of Meredith. Aviello, as we remember, was writing confused stories dressed with impossible details, and Massei didn't give him importance. Now it comes out that his information was coming right from Capanne jail, from a certain Florio. And Florio, is he reliable? Are all these gentlemen believable?

BUT...

The answer should be no, due to their criminal nature and the interest implied in their action. Also due to the evidential framework against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, which is consistent, complete, with no voids or inconsistencies...

Besides these reasons we have to register that Rudi immediately denied ever having spoken to anyone about the crime. And Alessi's lawyer Laura Ferraboschi confirmed that his client told her many things related to Rudi, but never about the crime of Meredith.

But, as we know, there are clues that the crime was committed by more people.
We also know that when you have seen hell you can't keep it too long in yourself. You have to speak out. Unless you are a monster or a professional murderer (actually that's what Rudi is for Knox and Sollecito's supporters...).

About Alessi's version we can just take note of the fact that he does reveal some details but he could have gotten them from the media or made them up. He says that they went to see Meredith, uninvited. There they started to try with her until she told them to go. At this point Rudi went to the toilet, and when he came back he found his buddy on Meredith, already on the floor and semi-naked. Rudi joined and tried to keep her. But she was wriggling away and his friend pulled his ivory handle knife and hit her by mistake. After that he decided to finish Meredith and, while Rudi was going to get towels, he struck several blows at her neck.
The guy fled, while Rudi tried to dab the wound until he saw she was no breathing and he also fled.
Right after, Rudi, by chance, met the guy in a bar. The guy gave him some money and told him to leave the country. Rudi doesn't know anything of the break-in in Filomena's room.

We don't really need to analyze Alessi's testimony since, if it's true that he received it from Rudi, it's just something he refers. And Rudi may have told him anything. And Alessi could remember and modify anything that Rudi told him.

The real important thing of this testimony is that it proposes the possibility that Rudi may have gone to the house with someone else. A posssibility which, after having been ignored by prosecution, courts, defenses, after having been alive only on Perugia Shock, will be finally brought into the trial.

FAIRY TALES

So far we only had fairy tales from the prosecution, fairy tales from the defenses, fairy tales from the judges.
On the media side we could enjoy the rants of any sort of shouting supporters, whose only effect was to make both public and private prosecution (Pacelli, Maresca) more mad, and to elicit the solidarity of judges and public opinion with the accusers.
At least Massei's precise answers were useful to get rid of all that crowd of improvised crime experts at once. I've referred his report calling my own thought off in front of its final fairy tale, but also in front of its refined intuition over some details.
Massei and Cristiani's motivations were kind of effective, that's probably why they needed to be counterbalanced with the issue of Alessi's revelation. Revelations which, if they are true, cancel Mignini and Massei. They also cancel the defenses and all the ones who were repeating the other fairy tale of the lonely attack.

THE PERCEIVED CASE

Many supporters were apparently all great law scholars and scientists, and claimed that the judges could be influenced by media. Yes, the super experts thought that two real judges --who studied the whole case, who are trained to judge, who have spent their life studying law-- had to be sequestered because they could listen to a couple of articles or paperbacks from people who didn't really know the case, who write about t-shirts and restaurants and whose main activity was trading letters and diaries of Amanda and Raffaele. The great law scholars meant I'm not that stupid that I can be influenced by the media, but Massei and Cristiani are. In fact, it turned to be exactly the opposite...

The italian journalism, the real one, the one that, when it wants, is able to dig deep in cases much more complicated than this, abandoned the case quite early, after the arrests and the first results.
That's why some defense lawyers were able to use one or two general reporters, quite uninformed about the case, having them to continuously issue presumed news aimed to demonstrate the solitary guilt of Rudi.
One day the news was that the footprint was Rudi's, another day that Rudi was the one coming out of the garage, and so on. Irrelevant or not decisive documents, stuff which often we had already discussed, but which were presented as scoops or proofs of something. Except that for the court, which certainly doesn't care what appears on TV, they meant nothing.

So, the media was fullfilled with Rudi-against simplifications. Opposite kind of simplifications were coming from other sides. For people everything was so simple and everyone felt allowed to release their simple judgement.

The public opinion about the case has been dominated by beliefs, wrong data and cliches. And supporters of both sides could pick the ones they liked.

For those who hated Amanda Knox she was a ruthless murderer, Raffaele was a puppet in her hands, the police and the prosecutors were perfect, and so on.
For those who loved Amanda Knox she was a saint, Rudi was a monster and the only killer, Mignini was a nut, Massei (along with Cristiani, Micheli, Matteini, Comodi, Court of Freedom, Supreme Court) was an idiot, the police were corrupted, the scientific police were incompetent and the Italian judicial system was all wrong (and they were the ones who could reform it...).

People were quick in accusing the others but nobody looked for comprehension. Because comprehension implies a moral conduct, implies a background of knowledge, research, patience, study, sacrifice of oneself. And for that nobody is available.

If there will be a change now it's thanks to a couple of criminals.
After Sollecito's lawyers have been taking care of Alessi, Knox's counselors will go hear Aviello.
Mignini & Comodi opened an investigation, will go interview Rudi and will forward the new issue to the appeal trial, where the defenses will ask debate and inquiry to take place, as well as the re-study of everything to be accomplished. They want a real new trial, not just an appeal trial.
And Mignini and Comodi are considering if appealing Massei's grant of extenuating circumstances (things that may happen when people insult a prosecutor or keep repeating that he's been convicted).

In other words forget about Massei's motivations, the Meredith Kercher case is just about to start.