Tag DNA

The prosecutor knows better, huh?

On January 8, 2015, The Guardian ran Tobias Jones’ account of the Yara Gambirasio case. In December 2015, the story opened the paper’s list of 15 top long reads of the year. The Guardian followed up with two more stories…

Chronicles of a witchhunt

In the Knox-Sollecito trial/circus – now in Florence – Prosecutor Crini began his “summation” today, which is really a long, boring rehashing of the same pseudo-evidence that has been long discredited by the defense and independent experts. Crini probably knows…

A little of who’s who

 From time to time, we hear that Italy’s prosecutors are about to investigate the authors of the independent report on DNA and blood evidence that was instrumental in freeing Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. That would be shooting the messenger.…