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...them. However, Bellissimo's son, Dominic, disputed his father's story. Dominic claimed that the wings were an impromptu midnight snack Teressa created on his request; he had been drinking with friends and asked his mother to whip up something for them to eat. The stories don't necessarily contradict each other - perhaps Teressa decided to serve her son some of the extra chicken wings from the mistaken shipment - but all three Bellissimo family members have since passed away, so it's impossible to verify which version is correct. The city of Buffalo doesn't seem concerned about the details...
While I hate to contradict the film that brought America “Here’s a fun fact: you made out with your sister,” I’m afraid I have to report from Rome that some Italians are not too pleased with some of the “kinky, steamy European sex” that Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s Prime Minister, may or may not have taken part...
Still, there are plenty of people who argue that Knox positioned herself in front of the firing squad. Why did she contradict herself, telling investigators that she had been present at the scene of the murder and that Patrick Lumumba, her boss at the bar where she worked a couple of nights a week, assaulted Meredith? She had originally stated that she'd spent the entire night at Sollecito's home. Knox's defenders suggest that a combination of exhaustion, after being questioned for hours, and police interrogation tactics may have led her to make the comments. Indeed, when Lumumba...
...Increasingly, however, science is showing that human beings, regardless of their intelligence, are prone to misconstrue and misperceive. We contradict ourselves. We tend to focus on facts that match our expectations and underrate possibilities that might derail our intentions. We're sentimental. We're biased. We're influenced by others. And intelligence offers no immunity to these baked-in flaws...
...behavior that doesn't just shock the conscience of a court. It makes it impossible for defense attorneys and prosecutors to work." Kromberg insisted there were no ethical lapses and said Florida prosecutors didn't care "a whit" about what was going on in Virginia, which appeared to contradict his earlier statement that the Florida prosecutors didn't want their Virginia colleagues to subpoena al-Arian. "There was no collaboration between Florida and Virginia," he said. Besides, Kromberg noted that when the federal judge in the 2005 trial sentenced al-Arian on the one count to the maximum 57 months...