Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito's appeal of their conviction of the murder of Meredith Kercher is almost certainly in its final days. According to legal experts, and reporters who've watched the trial with unblinking attention, the prosecution rests with their case in tatters. Even members of the prosecution team are predicting acquittal, but they are certainly not quietly accepting defeat. After the beating their (already dubious) DNA evidence took at the hands of defense experts, prosecutors have had no choice but to return to the familiar line that Knox must be guilty because she is an immoral woman. Just yesterday, a lawyer arguing against Knox talked himself into headlines worldwide by calling Knox a "she-devil."
(AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito).
These character attacks may seem like an act of desperation, but Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini's impression of Knox as an immoral woman was a large part of what drove him to investigate her. To the traditionalist Catholic Mignini, there is good reason to be suspect of a woman who didn't seem appropriately hysterical in the face of a tragic murder, who drank beer and smoked marijuana, and who didn't seem ashamed of the fact that she slept with her boyfriend and kept a vibrator and condoms in her house. For a college student in the 21st century, this doesn't even qualify as unusual, not to mention suspicious, but to hear the prosecution tell it, it's almost obvious that such a person would be capable of murdering a friend in cold blood... read more
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