Wednesday, October 05, 2011

If you've got the money....

So Foxy Knoxy didn't do it?  The evidence was certainly pretty circumstantial and relied heavily on DNA finds which appear to have been discredited.  There are two worrying features here - to me anyway.  The first is that the appeal hearing seems to have focused entirely on the reliability, or otherwise of the DNA evidence, and ignored the rest of the prosecution's evidence at the original trial.  And the second is the extent to which the original trial and the appeal were subject to media pressure.  The Italian media at the original trial were baying for a conviction, and at the appeal the American media had clearly decided that Knox was innocent and were more or less demanding that she be acquitted.  So has justice been done?  What do you think?

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