Breaking News Thursday: Judge Hellmann’s Sentencing Released In Italian; Responses From Italy Follow

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“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all”
Ecclesiastes, 9:11 KJV

The prosecution will definitely appeal, according to Andrea Vogt:

http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/amanda-knox-free/43650/only-one-killer-judge-explains-why-amanda-knox-went-free#ixzz1gcPnLyyq

The Hellman sentencing report in Italian can be downloaded here:  http://truejustice.org/ee/documents/perugia/motivazioni_sentenza_kercher.pdf

Justice must not only be done, it must also appear to be done.

If a video recoding of the crime was available, it would have been thrown away because the photographer’s credibility could not be proved.

Provability is a weaker notion than truth.  There are true statements that cannot be proved and there are false statements that cannot be disproved (Godel’s theorem).

Evidences cannot be discarded just like that; a convincing reasoning is essential.

Well said Chami.

From what I have read (translated), it is an astonishing piece of denial that leads one to conclude that the judge(s) were directed to ‘make this go away’.

Poor Meredith.

Judge Hellman sounds like a beloved uncle speaking about his adored niece. He has given her (AK) every graciousness and kind consideration you could imagine under the sun.

His poor little darling was doing cartwheels to relieve all the stress she was going through at the COP SHOP while these serious people were doing their jobs. After all there had been a dreadful murder of a beautiful young woman.

None of the witnesses were reliable he says. The investigators got everything wrong and so did the previous trials especially regarding the number of assailants.

Didnt someone predict that the report would not be as long as a roll of toilet paper.Well they were right. Toilet rolls are usually 200 sheets i think.

The judges on this panel sound as if they were really besotted with her . Its sickening.

It was always the Police’s case to lose and they did. Lots of lessons here. Especially when dealing with foreigners. They certainly underestimated her and her family.

I am appalled.

I am impressed with Hellmann saying that Amanda Knox used Yoga to relieve stress. This is exactly what Edda Mellas said to play the matter down.

So Helmann appears not to have spent any time in writing up this report. Instead the delay has been in translating it into Italian from whatever garbage the Knoxxii handed him.

So Hellman wasted the courts time calling witnesses that he had already prejudged and threw out scientific evidence on say so of people less qualified that the original team.  This appeal verdict is the legal version of sticking your fingers in your ears and singing so as to ignore what is plain for all to see. 

Massei wasn’t perfect by a country mile, the Italian police had more than a touch of the Keystone cops about them but the Hellman verdict does more damage to Italian justice than the previous two because it ignores plain facts.  It choses to ignore blatant evidence of who is responsible for Meredith’s death. 

hope Maresca, Mignini and Comodi have the courage of their convictions and take this all the way to the Supreme Court.  I just hope the Italian Supreme Court have the balls to take on the American press/FOA again.  Because that is what it’s going to boil down to, a final trial by media.  I wasn’t that bothered about the case when I knew Knox and Sollecito were behind bars. Now, I get sicker and sicker every day knowing they are free when Meredith’s poor parents still have their own life sentence to face.

Italian judges are respected for their uprightness. They are usually not affected by political pressure and corruption is far less within the judiciary. 

Hellman has no class.

Wow.

I can only think of the Kercher family, and pray for courage as they continue on their journey for justice for the brutal murder of their family member.

Will anything come of the promised appeals (Mignini’s & the Kercher’s attorney?)

Meanwhile, Barbara Walters finds Amanda to be the “fourth most-fascinating person of 2011.”
Holiness is holiness, I’m sure of that. But to think of ranking one’s fascinations!

The more I consider it, the less hopeful I am of Ultimate Justice from the Court of Cassation.

Rather, it is in Amanda’s own life, within her person & her psyche, that Heaven will carry out its Decree. She has come to terms with nothing, acknowledges no part of her massive guilt.

Her guilt is her cancer, a moral cancer. And the appetite within is unappeased.

Granted, I have only read what has been translated so far and not the whole report but I am absolutely mystified. It was my understanding that the appeals court was to review two pieces of evidence - the knife and the bra clasp - but they appear to have reviewed every single piece of evidence, circumstantial, forensic, witnesses, everything - and just simply have rejected it out of hand.  They do not have to offer any logical reason or, more importantly, some scenario of how one murderer did this. The scenario of one killer is ludicrous. They literally seem to be saying that Guede broke in smashing a window with a one kilo rock (maybe Meredith had earphones on?). Then he would have had to knock her out cold for there to be no evidence of a struggle, and then, preposterously have hanged around taking his shoes on and off, using the toilet, rearranging the body, covering the body and locking the door! Why lock the bedroom door if this is all so casual, why take the cell phones? How would he know no one upstairs or down would e home? This makes no sense to me whatsoever.

My heart goes out to the Kercher family today who have suffered for four years and now this insulting report completely refuting all evidence!

It is high time Rudy Guede writes a book.  Why not?

... with liberty and justice for all ... who can afford it.

Dora,

He also had to go grab Amanda’s lamp from her room and not leave a trace of him doing that.

@ jeffshana you make a very good point which has been ignored. I believe AKs bedside lamp was found under Meredith’s bed. So how did it get there.

Now the break in was for real they say. The Prosecution must be enraged right now.

How Hellman excused the unseemly behaviour of AK and RS immediately after the murder is an affront.The truth is that they were elated and feeling a sense of satisfaction.

UTTERLY, UTTERLY APPALLING!  I am totally aghast.  All the evidence brushed away at the stroke of a pen.  WHY did this ridiculous judge allow himself to be taken in by the FOA?  The Supreme Court HAS to review this outrageous appeal verdict.

Where next:

Or to next entry Our Translation Of Today’s Corriere Newspaper Report On The Hellmann Motivation Document

Or to previous entry Mignini’s And Giuttari’s Florence Convictions Are Annulled: No Evidence, And No Jurisdiction