Meredith Kercher Murder Case: Verdict expected soon

[butchersapron]

Eveyone, now i do a give a fuck. Start a thread telling people that fact then. Your usual bone-rattlingly exciting MO.

 

[butchersapron]

That was it? That was the upchuck onslaught?

 

[Upchuck]

I've got a long memory you prize cock.

 

[butchersapron]

Is that right? Well done. Have a state of origin cap.

 

[phildwyer]

I'd rather say nothing than be a miserable, bullying spectre like you butchers...seriously.

Spectre versus Rector, that's this thread.

Only Butchers will understand this.

 

[butchersapron]

And danny. And still we have 'the Spectre possesses Rector' to look forward too as well!

 

[Treacle Toes]

Near-nor, near-nor, near-nor........

Spectre versus Rector, that's this thread.

Only Butchers will understand this.

The word rector ("ruler," from the Latin regere and rector meaning "teacher" in Latin) has a number of different meanings; they indicate an academic, religious or political administrator.

And danny. And we still, we have 'the Spectre possesses Rector' to look forward too as well!

There's loads of it going on here already on Phil's thread.

Happy Sunday btw, hope it's a happy one for ya!

 

[ViolentPanda]

quote what you like - prick - you are the one who loves to wind folk up - you are a fucking twat.

Thing is, if you don't say what you mean, and in language that is plain enough to be easily understood, how can you mean what you say, maaaan?

 

[oryx]

This was potentially an interesting thread until it descended into name-calling drivel.

Another day, another Urban thread descends into garbage, I suppose.

So, Guede..................would a bloody fingerprint incriminating him making him any less guilty or more guilty than Knox and Sollecito, thus meriting 4-5 more years inside, when they have also been convicted of murder?

I don't get it.

 

[sheothebudworths]

I don't get it.

One theory....

Italy is a country in which the preservation of "face" is of enormous importance. And in this case there were many people with reputations at stake: the detectives who investigated the murder, Perugia's prosecutors, who oversaw their inquiry, and the judges who indicted Knox and Sollecito and decided that the evidence was sufficient to keep them locked up for more than two years. Since the case attracted worldwide publicity, the images of Perugia and Italy were at stake, too – Italy's standing as a country that can find and punish murderers, and the city's reputation as one to which the parents of overseas students attending its university for foreigners can entrust their children without qualms.
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The centre-left daily La Repubblica said the outcome was "surprising, and has a certain [Pontius] Pilate-like quality". The paper noted that last year the third accused, Ivory Coast-born Rudy Guede, was sentenced to 30 years. Yet Guede had opted for a fast-track trial, which would normally secure him a lighter sentence. What is more, the prosecution in the trial that ended on Friday night, whose version of the killing was upheld, maintained that Guede was not the material killer. He was claimed to have sexually assaulted Kercher while Sollecito prodded her with one knife until Knox delivered the lethal, final blow with another. Yet Sollecito was given 25 years and Knox 26 years.

A theory voiced by defence lawyers and court reporters early yesterday morning was that the court that tried the two former lovers had deliberately constructed a self-detonating judgment whose internal contradictions made it, in the words of La Repubblica, "eminently changeable on appeal".

Defendants in Italy are allowed two appeals. One view was that Friday's judgment could thus be revised on the first appeal and overturned altogether on the second. That would allow all concerned to save face.

The overturning of the verdict and sentence would be widely ascribed in Italy not to any flaw in the investigation or trial, but to the foreign pressure that was already building up yesterday on the other side of the Atlantic.

 

[oryx]

That's interesting, thanks sheo. Of course, Guede is appealing too, but it still seems odd that he got a heavier sentence when the trial of Knox and Sollecito decided that Knox was the actual killer.

 

[sheothebudworths]

I understood it to mean that it wasn't so much that his sentence was heavier, but more that they got a lighter sentence than they otherwise would have, in order to fulfill the criteria for the appeals process....in order to eventually free them!

Astonishing!

 

[Diamond]

One theory....

Very interesting. That would certainly make a great deal of sense.

 

[editor]

Why on earth is it in world politics? its got bugger all to do with politics and has all the ingriedients for a 'General' story, lets do it here...

Perhaps you've failed to read the whole title of the forum?
It is "world politics, current affairs and news" so this is absolutely the correct forum for this discussion. Shame it's been trashed by arguments though...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

You know I've read this entire thread and I can't really tell the difference between it and the comment section of a Daily Mail article. What difference does it make if she's had sex with 7 guys or 70?

 

[strung out]

So, Guede..................would a bloody fingerprint incriminating him making him any less guilty or more guilty than Knox and Sollecito, thus meriting 4-5 more years inside, when they have also been convicted of murder?

I don't get it.

he's had his sentence reduced to 16 years