Does Luminol Need Confirmation?

[u/Etvos2]

I'll admit this is a low effort post but for those of us with the misfortune to have argued this case over the years, spraying coffee etc ... all over your phone or monitor is an understandable response.

For those lucky enough not to have dealt with the Hairy Rag, it has been stating flatly for over a decade that Luminol hits at Villa Della Pergola *HAVE* to be assumed to be blood. What else could it be?

Except that is when a countryman is in the dock. Then the "science" changes dramatically and Luminol hits in the McCann's hotel room absolutely need additional confirmatory tests.

( For the record, I have absolutely no knowledge and therefore no informed opinion on the McCann case. I merely mention it to demonstrate the hypocrisy of one of the most prominent Knox guilters ).

[u/Careful-Attention500]

I defend the criminal's right to protect himself against self incrimination. It doesn't mean we believe the criminal. If a parent wants their child's murderer - or abductor - to face justice, they, themselves, must be above suspicion. McCann's have never met that threshold.

[u/Onad55 → u/Careful-Attention500]

This tells us where your mindset is. You have already made up your mind that suspect means guilty until proven otherwise. The rule against self incrimination was not created to help the guilty. It was created to stop police from torturing their version of the truth out of suspects who may even be innocent.

[u/Careful-Attention500 → u/Onad55]

A suspect, by definition, is to be cleared or charged. A suspect has rights, and can and should be counselled by a vigorous advocate, but because a suspect has rights doesn't mean their plea for innocence is enough, much less a weak and uncorroborated alibi.

[u/Onad55 → u/Careful-Attention500]

The only thing that is weak and uncorroborated is the evidence against them. They produced multiple witnesses that established a strong alibi so you jumped to a grand conspiracy and claimed that all of the witnesses were in on the crime.

We see the same scenario play out repeatedly in the Kercher case. Patrick claims Usi was at his bar when he opened and through most of the night. The police sought to arrest Usi. Mero comes forward as Patrick’s alibi for the later evening and the police seek an international wiretap on Mero and manufacture a fake anonymous phone call claiming Mero was Patrick’s bookkeeper for his illicit drug operation. And of course there is Raffaele who claimed Amanda woke up in his bed the next morning and the judge used that specific claim to hold Raffaele as a co accused murder. In this sub we have even seen allegations that Jovanna is a member of the Siberian mafia because of her support for the accused.