06-18-2013, 04:55 PM
Italy's high court gives reason for ordering new trial
In the 74-page Cassation ruling, the high court judges said they "had to recognize that he (Guede) was not the sole author" of the crime, Italian news agency LaPresse reported. The judges though said he was the "main protagonist."
They said the new appeal process would serve to "not only demonstrate the presence of the two suspects in the place of the crime, but to possibly outline the subjective position of Guede's accomplices." It said hypotheses ran from a simple case of forced sex involving Kercher "to a group erotic game that blew up and got out of control."
The high court faulted the Perugia appeals court for "multiple instances of deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions. The new court must conduct a full examination of evidence to resolve the ambiguities, it said.
Knox left Italy a free woman after her 2011 acquittal, after serving nearly four years of a 26-year prison sentence. Now a University of Washington student in Seattle, she has called the reversal by the Cassation "painful" but said she was confident she would be exonerated. Italian law cannot compel Knox to return for the new trial and her lawyers have said she has no plans to do so. It is unclear what would happen to Knox if a possible conviction from the new trial is upheld on final appeal.
No date for the new trial has been set. Florence's appeals court was chosen since Perugia only has one appellate court.
full story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-5...new-trial/
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I'm suspicious of Knox, but not convinced that she's guilty.
One of the reasons it's hard for me to form an opinion, even knowing the evidence, is that the handling of the case by Italian authorities was such a disaster, imo. Now, the High Court apparently claims the same was true of the appellate case.
Hoping they pull it together by the time this case goes to court, again.
In the 74-page Cassation ruling, the high court judges said they "had to recognize that he (Guede) was not the sole author" of the crime, Italian news agency LaPresse reported. The judges though said he was the "main protagonist."
They said the new appeal process would serve to "not only demonstrate the presence of the two suspects in the place of the crime, but to possibly outline the subjective position of Guede's accomplices." It said hypotheses ran from a simple case of forced sex involving Kercher "to a group erotic game that blew up and got out of control."
The high court faulted the Perugia appeals court for "multiple instances of deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions. The new court must conduct a full examination of evidence to resolve the ambiguities, it said.
Knox left Italy a free woman after her 2011 acquittal, after serving nearly four years of a 26-year prison sentence. Now a University of Washington student in Seattle, she has called the reversal by the Cassation "painful" but said she was confident she would be exonerated. Italian law cannot compel Knox to return for the new trial and her lawyers have said she has no plans to do so. It is unclear what would happen to Knox if a possible conviction from the new trial is upheld on final appeal.
No date for the new trial has been set. Florence's appeals court was chosen since Perugia only has one appellate court.
full story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-5...new-trial/
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I'm suspicious of Knox, but not convinced that she's guilty.
One of the reasons it's hard for me to form an opinion, even knowing the evidence, is that the handling of the case by Italian authorities was such a disaster, imo. Now, the High Court apparently claims the same was true of the appellate case.
Hoping they pull it together by the time this case goes to court, again.