Manson and Manga Means Murder

Is it just us, or is it unspeakably flimsy speculation on the part of the Italian prosecutor in the Amanda Knox trial to make "specific references in court to rocker Marilyn Manson and the violent, sexually charged Japanese manga comics Sollecito was fond of"? Giuliano Mignini is trying to draw a link between the fact that murdered student Kercher dressed as a vampire for Halloween and one of Raffaele Sollicito's graphic novels has to do with someone killing vampires on Halloween. Whereas Mignini has set himself the task of describing how an apparently crazy-ass threesome slaughtered Kercher without leaving anything besides circumstantial evidence behind, Knox's lawyers argue it was just one attacker. We have the uncomfortable feeling we're learning more about Mignini's psyche than we really wanted to.