Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
Theoretically, a PR company involved in a trial is supposed to be an extension of the advocacy of the defendant's lawyer, putting the accused's best foot forward. But that's just in theory. The application of Theory to Practice is another matter entirely. In her latest blog entry, Miss Represented examines how the PR campaign advocating for Amanda Knox has been coming along.
The way it strikes me, the PR strategy for this case was designed in expectation of Amanda's eventual exoneration, which would be used as a platform to launch some book and movie deals. Amanda's narrative chain with regard to the events leading up to "her discovery" of her murdered roommate seems suspiciously like a very fanciful movie script she's been trying to write.
# And from a different perspective: in Barbie Nadeau's latest piece, she focuses on Rudy Guede who "holds the key to what happened that night."
But if and when he finally reveals "the key," will we believe him? Should we believe him? I guess Rudy's secret is sort of a cliffhanger in this case.
:: Miss Represented :: - and - :: Barbie Nadeau ::
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Sunday, June 28
Mez: Lone Wacko Theory (2#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
Defense presented its case this weekend.
The gist of it is: Defense is claiming that Rudy Guede acted alone. Guede denies wrongdoing and is appealing his conviction.
In order to accept Defense's theory, you'd have to set aside all the forensic evidence presented by Prosecution and all the contradictions in Amanda Knox's diverse versions of the story.
There are two reports by Ann Wise:
:: Friday :: -- and -- :: Saturday ::
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Defense presented its case this weekend.
The gist of it is: Defense is claiming that Rudy Guede acted alone. Guede denies wrongdoing and is appealing his conviction.
In order to accept Defense's theory, you'd have to set aside all the forensic evidence presented by Prosecution and all the contradictions in Amanda Knox's diverse versions of the story.
There are two reports by Ann Wise:
:: Friday :: -- and -- :: Saturday ::
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Saturday, June 27
When The Net Burped (2#) -
:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt told an interviewer Friday that dictatorships and governments of closed societies who try to shut down communications over the Internet in order to suppress people's speech will not succeed.
"Citizens can no longer be restricted by
the kind of strategies evil dictatorships do."
Except maybe when a big celebrity dies . . .
The protesters in Iran using Twitter to communicate were unable to get online at times because of all the Michael Jackson RIP traffic.
...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt told an interviewer Friday that dictatorships and governments of closed societies who try to shut down communications over the Internet in order to suppress people's speech will not succeed.
"Citizens can no longer be restricted by
the kind of strategies evil dictatorships do."
Except maybe when a big celebrity dies . . .
The protesters in Iran using Twitter to communicate were unable to get online at times because of all the Michael Jackson RIP traffic.
...
Thursday, June 25
The Atomic Ayatollah (8#) -
:
Is Khamenei radioactive or what?
Which candidate is more likely to give the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei his nuclear bomb? I suspect that would be Ahmadinejad.
But who is the real power behind the alleged "theft" of the Iranian election? According to an analysis by Muhammad Sahimi, the one to watch is Ayatollah Mesbah. And the writer elaborates on some of the dynamics of power behind public view.
# Meanwhile, NIAC reports that there may be
a Rafsanjani plan to replace Khamenei with a council.
"The first step in any crackdown
is to eliminate potential witnesses."
# Among those reported to be detained are:
- Iason Athanasiadis (Nieman Class of 2008),
- Newsweek's Maziar Bahari, and
- Blogger Karim Arghandehpour of the Futurama Blog.
# Blogger Karim Arghandehpour was transferred yesterday from Sepah Baghiatollah Hospital to Evin Prison where he is being held incommunicado.
# FYI: France24 is still getting
comments from inside Iran on their articles.
# Also see: The Guardian's
:: Live Blog :: on The Iran Crisis.
...
Is Khamenei radioactive or what?
Which candidate is more likely to give the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei his nuclear bomb? I suspect that would be Ahmadinejad.
But who is the real power behind the alleged "theft" of the Iranian election? According to an analysis by Muhammad Sahimi, the one to watch is Ayatollah Mesbah. And the writer elaborates on some of the dynamics of power behind public view.
# Meanwhile, NIAC reports that there may be
a Rafsanjani plan to replace Khamenei with a council.
"The first step in any crackdown
is to eliminate potential witnesses."
# Among those reported to be detained are:
- Iason Athanasiadis (Nieman Class of 2008),
- Newsweek's Maziar Bahari, and
- Blogger Karim Arghandehpour of the Futurama Blog.
# Blogger Karim Arghandehpour was transferred yesterday from Sepah Baghiatollah Hospital to Evin Prison where he is being held incommunicado.
# FYI: France24 is still getting
comments from inside Iran on their articles.
# Also see: The Guardian's
:: Live Blog :: on The Iran Crisis.
...
Wednesday, June 24
Blocking Out The Birds (4#) -
Blogger Goes Mainstream (5#) -
:
Sina Moutalebi, former blogger,
is now working for the BBC Persian service.
Neda Soltan's family
has been evicted from their home.
Reported clashes taking place
at Baharestan Square near the
Parliament building in Tehran.
:: guard :: - - ::cnn:: - ::engineer::
...
Sina Moutalebi, former blogger,
is now working for the BBC Persian service.
Neda Soltan's family
has been evicted from their home.
Reported clashes taking place
at Baharestan Square near the
Parliament building in Tehran.
:: guard :: - - ::cnn:: - ::engineer::
...
Tuesday, June 23
SoFlo: Down These Mean Straits (3#) -
:
In the much under-rated 1993 movie Scam . . .
a female grifter working Miami Beach is picked up by a very enigmatic guy who blackmails her into working for him.
The movie brings Neo-Noir to South Florida with all the reversals and betrayals we've come to expect from the tradition of that genre. Featuring Christopher Walken and Lorraine Bracco as the male and female leads, it was adapted from the novel Ladystinger by Craig Smith III. I've seen it twice and liked it.
Local Public Radio series Under the Sun has won a grant to produce a program about the contemporary South Florida literary scene. It will air on Saturday, June 27 at noon and Sunday, June 28 at 7 pm on Public Radio WLRN 91.3 FM.
On the basis of their Blog, which looks woefully inadequate, I'm not very optimistic. This kind of project is like herding cats, then add a big dose of suburban sprawl. Well, good luck anyway, I guess.
:: Scam :: - - - :: Grant ::
...
In the much under-rated 1993 movie Scam . . .
a female grifter working Miami Beach is picked up by a very enigmatic guy who blackmails her into working for him.
The movie brings Neo-Noir to South Florida with all the reversals and betrayals we've come to expect from the tradition of that genre. Featuring Christopher Walken and Lorraine Bracco as the male and female leads, it was adapted from the novel Ladystinger by Craig Smith III. I've seen it twice and liked it.
Local Public Radio series Under the Sun has won a grant to produce a program about the contemporary South Florida literary scene. It will air on Saturday, June 27 at noon and Sunday, June 28 at 7 pm on Public Radio WLRN 91.3 FM.
On the basis of their Blog, which looks woefully inadequate, I'm not very optimistic. This kind of project is like herding cats, then add a big dose of suburban sprawl. Well, good luck anyway, I guess.
:: Scam :: - - - :: Grant ::
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Sunday, June 21
Mez: Nothing Missing (3#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
narrative chains and scenario patterns . . .
I think I finally figured out what's been bothering me so much in the narrative chain covered by the initial series of phone calls from Amanda Knox to her mother Edda Mellas and the events that immediately followed.
You come home to find the front door open and go to your bedroom where you discover that someone has moved your stuff. You then take off all your clothes and shower. Would you take off all your clothes if you discovered something in your bedroom was missing?
The natural reaction would be to feel violated. If you felt violated, you wouldn't be apt to take off all your clothes.
I now suspect that Filomena's room may have been tossed in order to establish the false premise that nothing was missing. In fact, something conspicuous was missing: Amanda's lamp. It is my understanding that the police eventually located it inside Meredith's locked room. The staged pseudo-burglary in Filomena's room established that nothing was missing there, possibly, as a distraction to Knox's lamp missing from her bedroom.
* * * * * * * * * *
There is an established pattern of crime associated with depraved homicides exhibiting features of torture or ritual occult practices which links them to illegal drugs. One example of this pattern can be found in the Matamoros Cult Murder Case. True, it is an extreme case. And not all crimes conform to already established patterns.
In March of 1989, Texas college student Mark J Kilroy disappeared while visiting Matamoros, Mexico. His murder was eventually attributed to a group involved in ritual killing and illegal drug dealing. Although this was an extreme case, it highlights a known pattern of crime linking depraved homicide incorporating torture or ritualized occult practices with illegal drugs.
If we use this pattern as a template and try to construct a hypothetical scenario based on that pattern, we might come up with something like this:
The perpetrators went to the cottage on a lark to get the key to the illegal grow house which was somewhere on the premises. Meredith had the key to the boys' quarters downstairs through which one might have been able to gain entrance to the grow house facility. They tried to get the key from Meredith, but she refused to hand it over to them. Then they began threatening her with a knife. The situation may have escalated from there and then spiraled out of control. Meredith, in this type of scenario, could have been killed over the key she possessed.
To date, the locations of all the keys
for that address have not been made public.
...
narrative chains and scenario patterns . . .
I think I finally figured out what's been bothering me so much in the narrative chain covered by the initial series of phone calls from Amanda Knox to her mother Edda Mellas and the events that immediately followed.
You come home to find the front door open and go to your bedroom where you discover that someone has moved your stuff. You then take off all your clothes and shower. Would you take off all your clothes if you discovered something in your bedroom was missing?
The natural reaction would be to feel violated. If you felt violated, you wouldn't be apt to take off all your clothes.
I now suspect that Filomena's room may have been tossed in order to establish the false premise that nothing was missing. In fact, something conspicuous was missing: Amanda's lamp. It is my understanding that the police eventually located it inside Meredith's locked room. The staged pseudo-burglary in Filomena's room established that nothing was missing there, possibly, as a distraction to Knox's lamp missing from her bedroom.
* * * * * * * * * *
There is an established pattern of crime associated with depraved homicides exhibiting features of torture or ritual occult practices which links them to illegal drugs. One example of this pattern can be found in the Matamoros Cult Murder Case. True, it is an extreme case. And not all crimes conform to already established patterns.
In March of 1989, Texas college student Mark J Kilroy disappeared while visiting Matamoros, Mexico. His murder was eventually attributed to a group involved in ritual killing and illegal drug dealing. Although this was an extreme case, it highlights a known pattern of crime linking depraved homicide incorporating torture or ritualized occult practices with illegal drugs.
If we use this pattern as a template and try to construct a hypothetical scenario based on that pattern, we might come up with something like this:
The perpetrators went to the cottage on a lark to get the key to the illegal grow house which was somewhere on the premises. Meredith had the key to the boys' quarters downstairs through which one might have been able to gain entrance to the grow house facility. They tried to get the key from Meredith, but she refused to hand it over to them. Then they began threatening her with a knife. The situation may have escalated from there and then spiraled out of control. Meredith, in this type of scenario, could have been killed over the key she possessed.
To date, the locations of all the keys
for that address have not been made public.
...
Saturday, June 20
TARGETS in
Iran & Pakistan (4#) -
Armed with their Korans as amulets, Iranian protesters have been shot by paintball guns to mark them for arrest. The injured are being treated in foreign embassies in Tehran.
# In light of recent events, Google has released
an Alpha version of Persian/English Translate.
# The mysterious 34-year-old
Baitullah Mehsud is Pakistan's most wanted man.
# Baitullah Mehsud, chief of Taliban militants, has rejected the request of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar Akhund to halt terrorist activities inside Pakistan which are harming the "image" of the Taliban.
...
# In light of recent events, Google has released
an Alpha version of Persian/English Translate.
# The mysterious 34-year-old
Baitullah Mehsud is Pakistan's most wanted man.
# Baitullah Mehsud, chief of Taliban militants, has rejected the request of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar Akhund to halt terrorist activities inside Pakistan which are harming the "image" of the Taliban.
...
Friday, June 19
Mez: DISRUPTED
ENCHANTMENT (5#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
They were having a beautiful love story when it
was inconveniently disrupted by a depraved homicide . . .
The Magic, The Mystery & The Phone Calls . . .
Edda Mellas testified in the Perugia courtroom today. Jon Meyersohn contributes a well written piece with some context and an overview of the case.
# According to Amanda's mother, Knox and Kercher got along great. And Mellas described the three phone calls she received from her daughter on that November 2nd when Meredith's body was found. [Owen] [Pisa]
# In her first phone call, Marta Falconi reports, Knox told her mother she thought an intruder was in the house!
# Nick Pisa on the first phone call -
Edda Mellas: ''The first call she said that she had spent the night at Raffaele's house and then gone home to take a shower. She had found the door open.
She said that she and Raffele had gone back to the house and were pounding on Meredith's bedroom door. They had tried to break in and I told her to call the police.''
# Nina Burleigh does a brief wrap:
"Still, Knox's words may yet work against her... When asked if she ever thought about the victim, Knox was less than sympathetic."
* * * * * * *
+ I'm still not clear exactly what
Edda testified about that first phone call.
That whole episode just doesn't jell right for me: front door open, blood-smeared bathroom, thought there was an intruder in the house, takes a shower.
Sorry, but it just doesn't work for me.
...
They were having a beautiful love story when it
was inconveniently disrupted by a depraved homicide . . .
The Magic, The Mystery & The Phone Calls . . .
Edda Mellas testified in the Perugia courtroom today. Jon Meyersohn contributes a well written piece with some context and an overview of the case.
# According to Amanda's mother, Knox and Kercher got along great. And Mellas described the three phone calls she received from her daughter on that November 2nd when Meredith's body was found. [Owen] [Pisa]
# In her first phone call, Marta Falconi reports, Knox told her mother she thought an intruder was in the house!
# Nick Pisa on the first phone call -
Edda Mellas: ''The first call she said that she had spent the night at Raffaele's house and then gone home to take a shower. She had found the door open.
She said that she and Raffele had gone back to the house and were pounding on Meredith's bedroom door. They had tried to break in and I told her to call the police.''
# Nina Burleigh does a brief wrap:
"Still, Knox's words may yet work against her... When asked if she ever thought about the victim, Knox was less than sympathetic."
* * * * * * *
+ I'm still not clear exactly what
Edda testified about that first phone call.
That whole episode just doesn't jell right for me: front door open, blood-smeared bathroom, thought there was an intruder in the house, takes a shower.
Sorry, but it just doesn't work for me.
...
Thursday, June 18
WHERE'S MY ELEPHANT? (2#) -
For many years we were told that in the 21st Century we'd be getting around in Flying Cars - ever since cartoon character George Jetson commuted to work in an aerocar, people have wanted one. Thus, a lot of folks have been asking lately: Where's My Flying Car?
Well, don't lose hope yet, because it was recently announced that such a vehicle called The Transition from the Terrafugia company is expected to be on the market by the end of 2011.
And it was announced today on the Charlie Rose Show that an extensive study has just been posted online. But there are ways of dealing with it.
Ain't Modern Technology wonderful?!
...
Well, don't lose hope yet, because it was recently announced that such a vehicle called The Transition from the Terrafugia company is expected to be on the market by the end of 2011.
And it was announced today on the Charlie Rose Show that an extensive study has just been posted online. But there are ways of dealing with it.
Ain't Modern Technology wonderful?!
...
Wednesday, June 17
IRAN JAM (6#) -
Bloggers must remove
any materials that create tension !
:: The dust speaks: Letter from Iran ::
"The Iranian authorities are continuing a crackdown on journalists and information. Journalists are still being arrested and more censorship measures have been adopted."
:: Guardian :: - - - :: Wired ::
:: SF techie Austin Heap bypassing Iranian censorship.
:: Hashtag: #IranElection on Twitter
...
any materials that create tension !
:: The dust speaks: Letter from Iran ::
"The Iranian authorities are continuing a crackdown on journalists and information. Journalists are still being arrested and more censorship measures have been adopted."
:: Guardian :: - - - :: Wired ::
:: SF techie Austin Heap bypassing Iranian censorship.
:: Hashtag: #IranElection on Twitter
...
Tuesday, June 16
Mez: A HARD ECHO (3#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
Between A Rock & A Hard Place . . .
I couldn't help but notice that Prosecution created a minor sensation across the Blogosphere and Intertubes with its attempt to establish a Knox "signature" over the weekend.
When Italian police entered the cottage on Pergola St, they observed property damage apparently caused by a rock thrown through the window in Filomena's room. And, it turns out, Amanda Knox has a prior police record associated with rock throwing.
# Another book on the case planned:
This one by John Grisham, Nick Pisa reports.
Grisham has been following every step of the trial.
# Elsewhere, Pisa reports that legal costs for Amanda Knox in the Meredith Kercher murder trial are spiraling towards $1million.
...
Between A Rock & A Hard Place . . .
I couldn't help but notice that Prosecution created a minor sensation across the Blogosphere and Intertubes with its attempt to establish a Knox "signature" over the weekend.
When Italian police entered the cottage on Pergola St, they observed property damage apparently caused by a rock thrown through the window in Filomena's room. And, it turns out, Amanda Knox has a prior police record associated with rock throwing.
# Another book on the case planned:
This one by John Grisham, Nick Pisa reports.
Grisham has been following every step of the trial.
# Elsewhere, Pisa reports that legal costs for Amanda Knox in the Meredith Kercher murder trial are spiraling towards $1million.
...
Monday, June 15
Mez: MORE PERSPECTIVES (3#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
Those who were away for the weekend got a chance to catch up on the case with segments on NBC and ABC TV this morning. Did anything catch your attention in Amanda Knox's testimony?
Here's something that poked me:
Knox told the court that when she last saw Kercher leaving their apartment, Kercher was still wearing traces of vampire makeup from her Halloween costume of the previous night.
+ Is this for real? Or was Amanda Knox hallucinating? Did Meredith's friends see the vampire makeup, too? Maybe Knox hallucinated that Meredith was a real vampire after getting stoned.
# Another book to be published about the case:
Darkness Descending by Paul Russell and Graham Johnson with Luciano Garofano sold to Simon and Schuster.
# Edda Mellas will testify in Friday's court session.
...
Those who were away for the weekend got a chance to catch up on the case with segments on NBC and ABC TV this morning. Did anything catch your attention in Amanda Knox's testimony?
Here's something that poked me:
Knox told the court that when she last saw Kercher leaving their apartment, Kercher was still wearing traces of vampire makeup from her Halloween costume of the previous night.
+ Is this for real? Or was Amanda Knox hallucinating? Did Meredith's friends see the vampire makeup, too? Maybe Knox hallucinated that Meredith was a real vampire after getting stoned.
# Another book to be published about the case:
Darkness Descending by Paul Russell and Graham Johnson with Luciano Garofano sold to Simon and Schuster.
# Edda Mellas will testify in Friday's court session.
...
Saturday, June 13
Mez: SHARP EDGES (3#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
More from today's proceedings . . .
In the courtroom on Saturday, the tension between Knox and Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini was palpable...
After her two days of testimony, the list of contradictions between the defense and prosecution cases is long.
:: Andrea Vogt ::
******************************
When a prosecutor interrupted her on one occasion,
she reprimanded him sharply: "Can I continue?"
:: John Follain ::
******************************
"Did you ever apologize to Patrick?" Pacelli asked.
"No," said Knox, passing up what seemed like a good
opportunity to make the apology in front of the court.
"Did you ever offer
compensation to Patrick?" asked Pacelli.
"Who, me?" she laughed. "No."
:: Barbie Nadeau - TDB ::
...
More from today's proceedings . . .
In the courtroom on Saturday, the tension between Knox and Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini was palpable...
After her two days of testimony, the list of contradictions between the defense and prosecution cases is long.
:: Andrea Vogt ::
******************************
When a prosecutor interrupted her on one occasion,
she reprimanded him sharply: "Can I continue?"
:: John Follain ::
******************************
"Did you ever apologize to Patrick?" Pacelli asked.
"No," said Knox, passing up what seemed like a good
opportunity to make the apology in front of the court.
"Did you ever offer
compensation to Patrick?" asked Pacelli.
"Who, me?" she laughed. "No."
:: Barbie Nadeau - TDB ::
...
Mez: A KIND OF MOVIE (4#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
Here are some snatches
from today's reports so far . . .
"I actually started to imagine a kind of movie..."
+ Yeah, who could have guessed.
NB: knife item in the dispatch.
:: BBC: Duncan Kennedy in Perugia ::
***********************
Lumumba's lawyer Carlo Pacelli
told AFP later: "She is a very good actress."
:: Gina Doggett: AFP ::
***********************
:: KIROV TV: Reporter
Sabina Castelfranco blogs from inside courtroom.
:: Nick Squires in Perugia ::
...
Here are some snatches
from today's reports so far . . .
"I actually started to imagine a kind of movie..."
+ Yeah, who could have guessed.
NB: knife item in the dispatch.
:: BBC: Duncan Kennedy in Perugia ::
***********************
Lumumba's lawyer Carlo Pacelli
told AFP later: "She is a very good actress."
:: Gina Doggett: AFP ::
***********************
:: KIROV TV: Reporter
Sabina Castelfranco blogs from inside courtroom.
:: Nick Squires in Perugia ::
...
Friday, June 12
Mez: PALIMPSEST (4#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
Here are more links to today's testimony. Tomorrow should be more illuminating with Cross Examination.
But first, a brief comment on the following:
blood, which she thought "strange"
Finding blood around your home is not just "strange." It is dangerous and implicitly represents a primal threat to your own safety. Here, Amanda Knox acts like she is merely a spectator describing a TV show or a movie she was watching. Her testimony about this seems somehow counterfeit from my current perspective.
:: Andrea Vogt :: - - - :: Nina Burleigh ::
:: Sabina Castelfranco - Courtroom Blogger ::
:: KOMO TV in Seattle - with comment thread ::
...
Here are more links to today's testimony. Tomorrow should be more illuminating with Cross Examination.
But first, a brief comment on the following:
blood, which she thought "strange"
Finding blood around your home is not just "strange." It is dangerous and implicitly represents a primal threat to your own safety. Here, Amanda Knox acts like she is merely a spectator describing a TV show or a movie she was watching. Her testimony about this seems somehow counterfeit from my current perspective.
:: Andrea Vogt :: - - - :: Nina Burleigh ::
:: Sabina Castelfranco - Courtroom Blogger ::
:: KOMO TV in Seattle - with comment thread ::
...
Mez: THESE FLOATING REALMS -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
Accused vampire-style killer
Amanda Knox has taken the stand today,
"at times appearing exasperated and annoyed."
Knox seemed to indicate that she could no longer
distinguish between fantasy and external reality:
Not a surprise really. It isn't easy
being an undercover vampire hunter.
More later. I have to go rescan my TV
for the shift to Digital taking place today.
:: Nick Squires in Perugia ::
...
Accused vampire-style killer
Amanda Knox has taken the stand today,
"at times appearing exasperated and annoyed."
Knox seemed to indicate that she could no longer
distinguish between fantasy and external reality:
"Miss Knox said she became so confused that...
she could no longer tell the difference
between her imagination and reality."
Not a surprise really. It isn't easy
being an undercover vampire hunter.
More later. I have to go rescan my TV
for the shift to Digital taking place today.
:: Nick Squires in Perugia ::
...
Wednesday, June 10
Mez: STRAWBERRY MOMENTS (3#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
"Ahh, but the strawberries
that's... that's where I had them."
Is there a Strawberry Meltdown on the horizon? Amanda Knox is scheduled to testify at the end of this week. If she conforms to her prior track record, I expect her to deteriorate into incoherent and disconnected ramblings of questionable mental competence.
"Without a psychiatric defense,
Colin Ferguson had no defense."
I can't think of anything illuminating coming out of her testimony. Why would Defense allow her to be put on the stand? There are two possibilities which come to mind:
First, her lawyers may have advised
against it, but she is defying their advice.
Or... her lawyers are contemplating a psycho plea.
* * * * * * *
:: Andrea Vogt - new Knox dispatch ::
:: Captain Queeg and the strawberries ::
:: Colin Ferguson Case ::
...
"Ahh, but the strawberries
that's... that's where I had them."
Is there a Strawberry Meltdown on the horizon? Amanda Knox is scheduled to testify at the end of this week. If she conforms to her prior track record, I expect her to deteriorate into incoherent and disconnected ramblings of questionable mental competence.
"Without a psychiatric defense,
Colin Ferguson had no defense."
I can't think of anything illuminating coming out of her testimony. Why would Defense allow her to be put on the stand? There are two possibilities which come to mind:
First, her lawyers may have advised
against it, but she is defying their advice.
Or... her lawyers are contemplating a psycho plea.
* * * * * * *
:: Andrea Vogt - new Knox dispatch ::
:: Captain Queeg and the strawberries ::
:: Colin Ferguson Case ::
...
Monday, June 8
Mez: EMERGENCE -
Meredith Kercher Murder -
Well, the long-awaited Kercher Family
testimony arrived over the weekend . . .
Many of us had been hoping for a key piece of information that would clear up some of the mystery surrounding this killing, but no such luck. The disclosure was that Meredith hardly mentioned Amanda Knox. I was not very surprised by this, since Meredith had her own group of friends, her own separate schoolwork, and her own enthusiasms.
Nick Pisa mentioned in an earlier article that Knox's Seattle boyfriend DJ attended the court sessions this past week. I was amused to see photos of his arrival accompanied by a bodyguard, which seems to be the new status symbol among young people today, possibly adapted from the pervasive Celebrity Culture.
The bodyguard wore sunglasses and looked a bit like a skinhead. Are these fellows skinheads?
I would love to know a little more about DJ, who is a member of Amanda's inner circle of friends. Does he have a criminal record? What is his profession or field of endeavor? Perhaps he is listed on one of the social network websites, but I'm not a member of any of those.
That is not to say there have been no new
revelations - there has been one, but it's very ugly.
Someone put together a lovely video montage of Meredith. It includes some poetic images of her which have been artistically manipulated for a moody effect. When the KOMO TV station in Seattle posted a story about it on their website, some of the comments on their comment thread were uncouth and what I felt as racist.
A few years ago In the Northeast, we had a case of anti-Indian racism in which a gang of youths called themselves "Dot-Busters," I believe. But I had no idea that there exists such virulent underlying racism against East Indians in the Seattle area. I found it quite disturbing.
Just sharing some recent thoughts and reactions.
...
Well, the long-awaited Kercher Family
testimony arrived over the weekend . . .
Many of us had been hoping for a key piece of information that would clear up some of the mystery surrounding this killing, but no such luck. The disclosure was that Meredith hardly mentioned Amanda Knox. I was not very surprised by this, since Meredith had her own group of friends, her own separate schoolwork, and her own enthusiasms.
Nick Pisa mentioned in an earlier article that Knox's Seattle boyfriend DJ attended the court sessions this past week. I was amused to see photos of his arrival accompanied by a bodyguard, which seems to be the new status symbol among young people today, possibly adapted from the pervasive Celebrity Culture.
The bodyguard wore sunglasses and looked a bit like a skinhead. Are these fellows skinheads?
I would love to know a little more about DJ, who is a member of Amanda's inner circle of friends. Does he have a criminal record? What is his profession or field of endeavor? Perhaps he is listed on one of the social network websites, but I'm not a member of any of those.
That is not to say there have been no new
revelations - there has been one, but it's very ugly.
Someone put together a lovely video montage of Meredith. It includes some poetic images of her which have been artistically manipulated for a moody effect. When the KOMO TV station in Seattle posted a story about it on their website, some of the comments on their comment thread were uncouth and what I felt as racist.
A few years ago In the Northeast, we had a case of anti-Indian racism in which a gang of youths called themselves "Dot-Busters," I believe. But I had no idea that there exists such virulent underlying racism against East Indians in the Seattle area. I found it quite disturbing.
Just sharing some recent thoughts and reactions.
...
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