Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
The August 2013 trial of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his friend Pyotr Ofitserov was, and the re-trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, which began on Sept. 30, are likely to be adversely and perversely affected by findings…
Judge Nencini has denied ALL the new tests requested by the defense, except one minor one. In contrast, he agreed to the prosecution’s request to test only the blade of the knife. Never mind that the blade was likely contaminated,…
If Judge Nencini’s panel denies most of the defense’s requests – especially the potentially exculpatory tests – and grants at least one of the prosecution’s, it cannot possibly be a fair trial. It will be a circus like the perverted…
At the retrial of Knox and Sollecito, which began today in Florence, the defense has asked for a number of new tests. Francesco Maresca, the Kercher family’s lawyer, has asked the court not to allow any of the new tests.…
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.…
In its “motivations report” in the Knox-Sollecito case, Italy’s supreme court seems to have parroted uncritically a long list of assorted assertions by the prosecution. The SC completely ignored the fact that most of those claims were demolished during the…
I thought the Russian justice system was bad – well it’s obviously true since it’s non-existent as a justice system: the courts with a few exceptions aren’t for real. They tend to be just rubber-stamping bodies. Politically motivated trials tend…