Reply #78: Mignini's Smutty Fantasy

[SoDesuKa]

Knox was convicted on the basis of Mignini's smutty fantasy about her drugs and her lovers. There wasn't much else for the jury to go on - certainly not the DNA found on what was offered as the murder weapon.

Who knows what sorts of behavior are appropriate when your roommate has been murdered and you are the prime suspect? Under the circumstances, I might do backflips myself. But cartwheels or backflips don't have any weight establishing guilt or innocence in a murder case. The most you can say is that given the same conditions you probably wouldn't have done backflips. And if the prosecutor is anxious for a conviction, he'll get you on wringing your hands. Or pulling at your hair.

This notion that cops and prosecutors don't go after innocent people is naive. That's the basis of all the protections we have in America, which they apparently don't have in Italy.