Friday, November 20, 2009

The Summations: The Prosecution Starts To Lay Out The Elements Of Their Case

Posted by Peter Quennell



[Above: Prosecutor Comodi. Below: Prosecutor Mignini.]

The prosecution will take at least two days to complete their summation of their case, drawing all of the threads together.

We have been warned by court watchers to expect at least some surprises. The first seems to be that the prosecution starts off where Amanda Knox seems to be especially vulnerable - her false charge against Patrick Lumumba.

Even if the murder verdict against Amanda Knox early in December becomes “not guilty” she might still face a conviction and sentence just for this.

This first report is from Il Mattino with translation by our poster Tiziano.  .

Amanda Knox “knowingly accused an innocent person”:  Thus said PM Giulian Mignini in his summing- up address under way before the Court of the Assizes of Perugia. 

The reference is to Patrick Lumumba , whom he did not nominate specifically, who was involved in the investigation into the murder of Meredith Kercher through the statements made to the police by the young American accused of defamation against him, and who was absolved of any wrong-doing (and has in fact now nominated as a civil complainant against her).

“Amanda” the magistrate underlines “did not lift a finger while he was languishing in prison. Neither she nor her mother who was in her confidence.  And what a coincidence” Mignini continued “it was a matter of a coloured person like Rudy Guede.” 

“It is time to draw together the threads of this long debate, an event which is unique of its kind in the panorama of Italian and world justice, which has involved three continents.” Thus spoke the PM, Giuliano Mignini, in his address in the trial for the murder of Meredith Kercher, which sees accused Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.

“A straight and sure route for the trial.  The attacks which have accompanied this trial and the continual attempts to delegitimise the police working on it, who however carried out their duties with professionalism, and also their dealings with the court, cannot be passed over in silence,” Mignini stressed. 

Attacks made by persons in Italy and overseas, lawyers not possessing any mandate, detectives looking for notoriety, writers, mystery writers, bloggers who gave themselves the right to undertake a sort of parallel trial, all bound together by lack of accuracy and superficiality.  But the trial is being held only in this court room.”


Posted by Peter Quennell on 11/20/09 at 02:39 PM in Trials 2008 & 2009

Comments

Does everyone think that Mignini has now started hoisting his ‘skirt’ a bit! 

What a great opening today and he has basically put everything into context and said enough of this charade created by people outside of the court, this will be settled inside of the court.

I really think that justice in this case is fast approaching, and Edda should look at getting the money or miles back on AK’s return flight!

Posted by Love Wolf on 11/20/09 at 03:04 PM | #

I think that throughout this horrible campaign of making Mignini look mentally unstable, he has kept his composure and maintained his professionalism. His opening was direct and well stated and I look forward to updates on this site as well as the other site when he gets to the real “heart” of his reasoning as to why these two are clearly implicated in this horrendous crime.

Posted by tigger34 on 11/20/09 at 03:35 PM | #
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