Fall Is In The Air

Fall  is officially here.  It came in on September 23, but I just now noticed it.  I love this time of year.

Big orange pumpkins are already in the fields and in the stores around here.  The sunlight is more muted, the temperatures cooling, the hills are browning (as is the grass in my backyard).  The air is sweet with the fragrance of dying grasses.

No breezes stir the trees and nature seems unusually quiet and still.  It's as if the earth itself were deep in meditation.

Confused Prosecution witness at Knox and Sollecito appeal

Image by Getty Images via @daylife

Judge: So, you saw Amanda and Raffaele?


 Curatolo: Yeah, it was Halloween when I saw them. I know this because I saw the kids getting on the disco buses all dressed up in costumes. That’s how I also know what time it was. 

Judge: When is Halloween? 


Curatolo: I don't know. Maybe end of October or beginning of November, I think. 

Judge: You aren’t sure? What about your case now? You are in prison, correct? How long will you be there?


 Curatolo: I don’t know. I don’t understand the case against me really. I understand nothing. 

Judge: Ok, so how did you live in the park? Were you always there?


 Curatolo: Always, yes. I never left. I just lived there. On a bench mostly. 

(questions regarding where Toto poops omitted)


Judge: Never mind. So, are you certain the buses were disco buses and not tour buses? 


Curatolo: Yes, definitely disco buses. They look different from other buses. 

Prosecutio­n: No, no, you must be mistaken? 


Curatolo: No. I am certain they were disco buses. 

Judge: Do you take drugs?


 Curatolo: Yes, heroin. 

Judge: Were you taking drugs on that night?


 Curatolo: I always take drugs, so most certainly I was high that night…but that’s ok. heroin does not make you hallucinat­e or anything. 

Judge: Guards, take him away. I am done.http://www­.allvoices­.com/contr­ibuted-new­s/8603548-­journalist­s-owe-aman­da-knox-ra­ffaele-sol­lecito-an-­apology

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