Reported in CNN the US government is now going to enter into the saga of Amanda Knox.
The 22 year old's aunt, Janet Huff, says they have been receiving emails from government officials saying "Now it is time to do something"
There is a separation of state, where the law is separate to Government. Governments make the law and the law implements the countries laws. So before the sentencing of Knox, the government cannot become involved as then it would bee seen to be interfering in the process of law. After the sentence, the Government can then provide diplomatic support, while maintaining respect to the foreign countries laws.
Italian prosecutors presented DNA and forensic evidence in the trial of Knox her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede from the Ivory Coast, Guede was convicted in an earlier trial after opting for a "fast-track" trial in exchange for clemency.
The prosecution charged that the three youths were high on drugs when they engaged Kercher, 21, in an erotic sex game that turned violent, feering she would turn them in, they attacked her with a knife, leaving her dead with stab wounds to the neck. The court handed Knox a 26-year jail sentence and a 25-year sentence to her former boyfriend, Sollecito. Rudy Guede, was earlier convicted of the murder and sexual violence and sentenced to 30 years in jail.
Both Knox and Sollecito had maintained their innocence throughout the trial.
Knox's family has issued a statement saying "They planned to appeal the verdict."
Has the US Government ever been so public in its forcast to become involved in the murder convictions of an American citizen overseas before?
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Is the USA now going to try to bully a sovereign nation concerning their legal system?
~06:00 Meredith ate dinner at friends home Via Bontempi
~08:30 Guede captured on the parking garage CCTV cam
~8:40 Amanda answered the door at Raffaele's flat.
~08:45 Meredith & Sophie start walking home together
~08:40 Guede busted the window and enters the apartment
~08:55 She got home, went straight to her room and placed a phone call to her mom, *8:56 pm, police testimony
*08:56 Meredith's call to mom is interrupted,GUEDE ATTACK
>8:56 She put up one hell of a fight so Guede stabbed her soon after he attack.
* 9:10, 9:26 - 9:46 The scientific police determined Raffaele was active on his PC, watching a cartoon.
<09:50 Meredith is dead. (It's a 10 minute walk from Meredith's home, to where her phones were found
~10:00 Guede used her UK phone and the wrong area code to call her UK bank.The call connects to a cell tower that services Ponte Rio, Montelaguardia
*10:13 Her phone receives pic. message from same cell tower
Amanda Knox’s DNA was found on:
1. On the double DNA knife and a number of independent forensic experts - Dr. Patrizia Stefanoni, Dr. Renato Biondo and Professor Francesca Torricelli - categorically stated that Meredith’s DNA was on the blade.
2. Mixed with Meredith’s blood on the ledge of the basin.
3. Mixed with Meredith’s blood on the bidet.
4. Mixed with Meredith blood on a box of Q Tip cotton swabs.
5. Mixed with Meredith’s blood in the hallway.
6. Mixed with Meredith’s blood on the floor of Filomena’s room, where the break-in was staged.
7. On Meredith’s bra according to Dr. Stefanoni AND Raffaele Sollecito’s forensic expert, Professor Vinci.
Amanda Knox’s footprints were found set in Meredith’s blood in two places in the hallway of the new wing of the cottage. One print was exiting her own room, and one print was outside Meredith’s room, facing into the room. These bloody footprints were only revealed under luminol.
A woman’s bloody shoeprint, which matched Amanda Knox’s foot size, was found on a pillow under Meredith’s body. The bloody shoeprint was incompatible with Meredith’s shoe size.
Two independent imprint experts categorically excluded the possibility that the bloody footprint on the blue bathmat could belong to Rudy Guede. Lorenzo Rinaldi stated:
“You can see clearly that this bloody footprint on the rug does not belong to Mr. Guede, but you can see that it is compatible with Sollecito.”
The other imprint expert print expert testified that the bloody footprint on the blue bathmat matched the precise characteristics of Sollecito’s foot.
An abundant amount of Raffaele Sollecito's DNA was found on Meredith's bra clasp. Sollecito must have applied considerable pressure to the clasp in order to have left so much DNA. The hooks on the clasp were damaged which confirms that Sollecito had gripped them tightly.
According to Judge Massei and Judge Cristiani, Rudy Guede's visible bloody footprints lead straight out of Meredith's room and out of the house. He didn't lock Meredith's door, remove his trainers, go into Filomena's room or the bathroom that Meredith and Knox shared.
He didn't scale the vertical wall outside Filomena's room or gain access through the window. The break-in was clearly staged. This indicates that somebody who lived at the cottage was trying to deflect attention away from themselves and give the impression that a stranger had broken in and killed Meredith.
Guede had no reason to stage the break-in and there was no physical evidence that he went into Filomena's room or the bathroom. The scientific police found a mixture of Knox's DNA and Meredith's blood on the floor in Filomena's room. They also found irrefutable proof that Knox and Sollecito had tracked Meredith's blood into the bathroom.
The murder dynamic implicates Knox and Sollecito.
Barbie Nadeau wrote the following:
"Countless forensic experts, including those who performed the autopsies on Kercher's body, have testified that more than one person killed her based on the size and location of her injuries and the fact that she didn't fight back—no hair or skin was found under her fingernails."
Judge Paolo Micheli claimed that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito knew precise details about Meredith's murder that they could have only known if they were present when she was killed.
Amanda Knox voluntarily admitted that she involved in Meredith's murder in her handwritten note to the police on 6 November 2007. She stated on at least four separate occasions that she was at the cottage when Meredith was killed. She also claimed that Sollecito was at the cottage.
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito both gave multiple conflicting alibis and lied repeatedly. Their lies were exposed by telephone and computer records, and by CCTV footage. Neither Knox nor Sollecito have credible alibis for the night of the murder despite three attempt each. At the trial, Sollecito refused to corroborate Knox's alibi that she was at his apartment.
Legal expert Stefano Maffei stated the following:
"There were 19 judges who looked at the evidence over the course of two years, faced with decisions on pre-trial detention, review of such detention, committal to trial, judgment on criminal responsibility. They all agreed, at all times, that the evidence was overwhelming."