Amanda Knox: Italian justice on trial

oped: Indeed a injustice ...the Italian Court system is akin to a Southern Backwoods prosecution team of the KKK era...no facts...speculation,assumption guilt until proven innocent no matter how many times it is retried! Damn the evidence, the perverted prosecutor wants his way or the Highway...sad state of affairs folks...
SEE: http://www.injusticeinperugia.com/FBI2.html  the facts Maam' just the Facts stolen quote from the old series 'Dragnet' and the song the Nite the lights went out in Georgia cue: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN4gUrDlDOA 

by: Nigel Scott 

The handling of the Meredith Kercher murder case should shock anyone interested in fairness and truth.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.’ – Horace Walpole Last week, a court in Italy found Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito guilty of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia. This was the third trial of the evidence against the pair – and it is clear that Knox and Sollecito are innocent. What should really be on trial is the Italian justice system.
The tabloids were in heaven after last week’s verdict. ‘Shameless in Seattle’, ‘The Ice Maiden’, ‘Foxy Knoxy Guilty Again’, screamed the headlines. A case that has already lasted longer than the Second World War has brought the Kercher family no nearer to the closure that they deserve. They are trapped in the nightmare that is the Italian justice system, one they were persuaded to sign up to as soon as Meredith was killed. They are co-prosecuting Knox and Sollecito via their civil lawyer Francesco Maresca. When they talk of wanting answers, they do not say that they already believe that they know what happened to Meredith and that is why they have hired a lawyer to sue Knox and Sollecito. 

The answers they seek can only come from the convicted lone killer, Rudy Guede, who was prosecuted and found guilty in a separate ‘fast track’ trial in 2008. He was not charged with breaking and entering or with the theft of Meredith’s money, though his DNA was on her purse. These charges were reserved for Knox and Sollecito, although there was no credible evidence that they committed those offences. Guede was never cross-examined in any of the Knox/Sollecito trials, even though he is supposed to have been their co-conspirator. Former FBI agent Steve Moore believes that Guede was a police informant ‘gone bad’ and this connection needed to be hidden. He has been allowed to fade away and is due for release on parole this year.

 The sidelining of Guede remains the real unsolved mystery of the case. He is the man who fatally stabbed Meredith, sexually abused her, stole from her and left her for dead, yet we rarely hear his name. Why did the police decide that Knox and Sollecito were involved as soon as they laid eyes on them, why were their phones tapped and why was Knox interviewed and interrogated for 46 hours out of 90 at a time when no forensic evidence was yet available? ‘Intuition’ and ‘behaviour analysis’ does not even come near to explaining this. The mass media are missing the real story. While they endlessly revisit the discredited evidence against Knox and Sollecito, the media are failing to ask who put it there and why.