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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
There may well be evidence that would be sufficient to prove Knox's guilt to any kind of a reasonable standard. I haven't seen it, and if Dershowitz thinks that she would be convicted in the US, I'd sure like to know how.
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I don't have enough info to agree with the strength of Dershowitz's assertion, but he's certainly a recognized expert in US criminal law and knows leaps and bounds more than I ever will about it.
The only point I'm really trying to make in this thread is that there is evidence pointing to Knox's involvement. Any suggestion that there is no evidence is not supportable. That's my only real point, and I get tired of silly media reports saying otherwise, so I'm in this thread only to advocate against that issue specifically.
Knox and Sollecito's stories diverged right at the start, that's enough to wonder if they were involved. She said they were together all night, he said no they weren't, then she changes her story when she finds out what he said. So right off the bat they're making themselves suspicious. We know they were hiding something. Maybe they only wanted to hide that they had drugs, but then it gets better. You have her blood at the scene (though they're roommates, the blood shouldn't be where it was found), the knife from Sollecito's apartment with both their DNA, and Sollecito's false statement that he and the victim had cooked together. There's so much more. But they started off lying. That's not to defend the interrogation techniques, which were reprehensible, but before things got oppressive they had already started lying.
The case against Sollecito is strong. One example, later on in the case he made a statement that the victim's DNA was on his knife because he poked her with it at his place when they were cooking. The evidence was conclusive she had never been to his place.
When you have Knox saying she was with him all night, well hell, she's already got herself in a catch 22, though Sollecito's statement didn't occur until long after the interrogations were over, and I doubt she could anticipate he would say something like that... they didn't have enough time to get their stories straight.