Innocenti: Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were acquitted by the Supreme Court of the charge of having killed eight years ago in Perugia, the British student Meredith Kercher.
Among those imagined a final judgment of conviction and who pointed to an appeals process-ter with the cancellation of the verdict of the Court of Assizes of the second degree of Florence who had declared the two young men guilty of ‘murder, the Supreme Court chose a third way, perhaps the most difficult.
re-evaluated in more than ten hours of deliberation the facts and acts, the judges concluded for the acquittal of the accused: technically “for not having committed the crime,” essentially for lack of evidence (as explained by the indication, in the device, the second paragraph of Article 530 of the Criminal Procedure Code). There is only one conviction became final, for Amanda: three years (at a discount compared to the decision of the judges of the second degree) for having slandered Patrik Lumumba, accusing him of murder in the first phase of the investigation.
“I am immensely happy, I go back to get my life,” said Raffaele Sollecito, who has waited the sentence at his home in Bisceglie (Bari). “That same judiciary that I was unjustly condemned – he added – I returned today dignity and freedom.” And from Seattle Amanda Knox, informed of absolution, he sent his happiness defenders Luciano Ghirga and Carlo Dalla Vedova. “I am greatly relieved and grateful for the decision of the Italian Supreme Court,” he said, stressing that “the awareness of my innocence has given me the strength in the darkest times of this ordeal,” in which “I had the invaluable support of my family, friends and strangers. ” The scream of joy lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, Sollecito’s lawyer, at the verdict recalled what she did during the absolution of Giulio Andreotti, who also defended.
“It ‘s been a tough battle, it was not disputed that Sollecito are innocent, and that the Supreme Court has had the courage to say so.” Arline Kercher, Meredith Kercher’s mother, meanwhile, said she was “surprised and very shocked.” Tone also resigned commentary lawyer Francesco Maresca, the Kercher family lawyer. “It ‘a truth hard to swallow for the family, for us that we have the defense and the judges who issued the verdicts of conviction.” “Obviously we were right,” said Claudio Pratillo Hellmann, President of the Court of Assizes of Perugia in 2011 acquitted Amanda and Raffaele; while the deputy prosecutor general of Perugia Giancarlo Costagliola said he was “curious to read the reasoning of the judgment.” I take note of the judgment – said the magistrate – and I have the utmost respect for the decisions of the Court. “
The story of the murder of Meredith Kercher closes, then, with a single point: Rudy Guede far, the only defendants who chose expedited and finally sentenced to 16 years imprisonment. L ‘Ivorian has now admitted his presence in the house of the crime, but said that he was in the bathroom while Kercher was killed by two other people. Guede then claimed more or less explicitly that in the house there were Sollecito and Knox. She, originally from Seattle, she came to Perugia to study creative writing at the University for Foreigners. A yoga enthusiast and football was recently engaged to Raphael, known to a classical music concert. He, among other lover of manga comics at the time attending computer engineering where he graduated in prison before specializing as a free virtual reality.
The images of Sollecito and Knox embraced in front of the entrance of the house on Via della Pergola have been around the world. The two, however, have always denied being in the house the night of the murder. They were instead – have said many times – at Sollecito’s house where they would sleep. A version which has not yet believed that the police conducted a complex investigation coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Giuliano Mignini (later assisted in court by Manuela Comfortable). For investigators traces of DNA (as to urge the hook of the bra of British student), fingerprints (even barefoot bloody) and the testimonies gathered placed the two young people in the home while the Kercher was killed. A murder with a motive of a sexual speculated initially accused. Placed in a framework that led to the arrest and conviction at first instance of the two young people but also to the final of Guede. Elements that the defenses of Sollecito and Knox felt immediately not certain. Battling in particular the reliability of genetic evidence (the hook bra reperted by forensic after several days of inspections) and that of witnesses, in particular of Guede. Thesis accepted by the appellate judges perugini who acquitted the two young men, making them free again, with a judgment but then annulled by the Supreme Court reversed on appeal and in Florence with a new sentence. For the judges was the Tuscan Knox to deliver the fatal stab wound to Meredith hit with another knife from Sollecito also during an assault after a fight in which he took part also Guede. A reconstruction that has not convinced the Supreme Court, which wrote an end to the legal case of Amanda and Raffaele, assolvendoli definitely of murder.
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