INTERVIEW WITH ALESSANDRO NENCINI, PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF ASSIZES OF APPEAL OF FLORENCE
Amanda and Raffaele, says the judge
, "I have children myself, it was a difficult choice"
"The defense had asked us to separate the positions of the two defendants But Raphael has not done interrogate»
"I feel liberated because the moment of decision is the most difficult. I also have children and impose sentences of 25 and 28 years to two boys is something emotionally very strong. " At 10 days after the judge Alessandro Nencini is in his office. The President of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Florence, two nights ago held Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher is aware that "the judgment will open a new debate, especially the media," but because of this agree to explain how you arrived at a verdict.
You were twelve hours in closed session. The college was divided?
"The acts of this process occupy half the room, there are 30 surveys. The jurors, who are not insiders, had to take cognizance of the file to arrive at a joint decision, as it must be to a Court of Assizes. We must examine the documents, reason above. We did this by taking all the time necessary taking into account that the victim was a girl. "
And then you have reached unanimity? 'I spoke to shared decision-making. I can say that in all these months and especially at the time of the last meeting we felt the severity of a sentence involving children young people and families. This is a story that has upset many lives. "
Your was a narrow path, the Supreme Court had sought to "remedy" with respect to the second-instance judgment in Perugia which had acquitted the two defendants. "Not so, we had maximum practicability. The only constraint was that in case of acquittal would have to give reasons in a logical manner. There was no stake. " Even compared to the judgment entered against Rudy Guede? "In fact the peculiarity of the process was this: a person already convicted on summary judgment and a final competition for the same murder. The Supreme Court asked us to evaluate the role of competitors. We could say that there were two defendants, motivating convincingly. But we did not consider this to be the truth. "
Why did you not question Guede? "For what? He never confessed and even if we had called the right not to say anything. We have not deemed necessary. Instead it seemed important to investigate other aspects and in fact we have an expert report and heard the witnesses on which there were doubts. It is the role of the appellate courts. In four months we were able to get the definition.
[ ...........] Ye have condemned Amanda Knox but you do not have any protective order issued against him. Why? "It is legitimate that she is in the United States. At the time of the crime was in Italy for study and returned to her home after being acquitted. She is an American citizen. The problem will arise if there were to be a need to enforce the sentence. Now I do not think it was a necessary measure. "
Then why have confiscated his passport Raffaele Sollecito? "It was the minimum wage. In these cases, the order is to prevent something and we had to avoid if one is untraceable waiting for the final judgment. " It is enough to believe the travel ban? "Yes, we felt it was more than enough. If we were to be no developments will evaluate them. "
