That's a bit harsh Martin. Personally I'm with Tyler on this and I came to similar conclusions as Tyler a while ago when Caroline shared her thoughts with me. Another problem I have with this being anything sinister is that it goes against the grain of much else that points towards a psychotic episode / a raid that experienced complications / what could be regarded as fabricated evidence / altered statements / corruptive practices among police officers / altered pathology report / financial motive among prosecution witnesses etc. All in all, I think it highly unlikely that police framed the right culprit. I don't think JB seems any more money orientated than his extended family, even if he has at some point checked the wallet. Discrepancies In answers needs to be considered but i will pm Caroline about this.
Propaganda techniqueI think you have things in perspective on this case, although you and Tyler both seem to follow the crowd on the Amanda Knox case.
What Caroline is doing is applying a propaganda technique, even if naively. When they talk about the mountain of evidence against Amanda Knox, it is just this kind of thing which they mean. Here are a few examples
"The Mountain of evidence"Sollecito is known to have said, on seeing Meredith’s room after the murder, that nothing was stolen. The guilters see this as damning evidence that he took part in the murder because if he did not, so they say, he could not have known that nothing had been stolen.
Well, he said later that he just assumed that nothing had been stolen because valuables such as a laptop, which you would expect a thief to have taken were left there . So there is really nothing in that statement which is damning, yet the guilters never tire of using that as evidence, when it doesn’t really even make it as weak evidence never mind damning stuff.
Another example. When it was found that the door to Meredith Kercher’s room was locked, Amanda tried to reassure people saying that Meredith always locked her door, as if to suggest there was no need to worry. This is taken to be damning evidence of Knox’s guilt, because other residents contradicted her, saying that Meredith sometimes didn’t lock her door.
Why would Amanda say that Meredith always locked her door? Well, because it was Amanda the killer who locked the door! The truth is that Meredith did NOT always lock her door.
Here’s another example of evidence aimed at ignorant people.
Sion JenkinsSion Jenkins said that he went to the hardware store to buy white spirit. It turned out that the police found he already had some in the cupboard. That is supposed to be damning evidence that he pretended to go for white spirit after murdering Billie-Jo to give himself a false alibi.
He said that he just didn’t see it, because it was behind some other stuff at the back of the cupboard-a perfectly reasonable explanation, it would seem, but there is more. It turned out that when Jenkins reached the hardware store, he found that he had forgotten his money.
The argument of the prosecution was that it was virtually impossible that he could have made two such humdrum mistakes in the same day.
Damning Evidence! He made the journey to give himself a false alibi, they said. He says that Billie-Jo was killed while he was away and that defence is supported by his two daughters who both say that Billie -Jo was alive when they left the house.
Now, which would a reasonably intelligent person consider to be the stronger evidence, the alibi or going for white spirit when he already had some?
Which is stronger, the evidence of the pathologists, who say that Sheila can’t have been dead for more than two hours when the pictures were taken, or the evidence that Jeremy knew how much money was in his father’s wallet?
Which carries more weight, science or popular opinion? The answer, of course, is popular opinion.
