The headlines were all over Italy, “Amanda Knox Found Guilty.” Meredith Kercher, an British college student, shared a cottage with Amanda Knox, an American exchange student, in a small Italian town named Perugia. In November 2007, Meredith Kercher, was found naked and dead of an apparent stabbing. Amanda Knox was found guilty of murdering Meredith Kercher by a jury and was sentenced to 26 years in prison. Her former boyfriend, an Italian, named Raffaele Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years in prison and an Ivory Coast citizen, Rudy Guede, was sentenced to 30 years.
Prosecutors presented DNA and other forensic evidence against the defendents. They said that Knox and Sollecito were under the influence of alcohol and high on drugs when they started arguing. Then Knox joined the two men and brutally attacked and sexually assaulted Meredith Kercher.
Besides the murder charges, the jury also found Knox and Sollecito guilty of having a concealed weapon which was a knife that was involved in the murder, staging a crime scene and trying to cover up the murder by making it seem like a burglary and accusing her former boss, Patrick Lumumba, of the murder.
Prosecutors said that Amanda Knox had grown to hate Meredith Kercher because Kercher criticized her cleanliness and sexual habits.
Do you think Knox is guilty?
Amanda Knox Found Guilty
Well, I feel sorry for her family. However,if she is in fact guilty, it is fair that she pays for what she did.
the forum asked if you thought she is guilty. everyone already knows that anybody should pay for a crime if they are guilty.
jeez
I believe she is guilty, but I don’t think she intended to kill her roommate. I think she wanted to ‘get back’ at her because her boss at the bar had just asked Meredith to work for him one day a week. Amanda most likely was angry also at the boss for degrading her job to handing out posters rather than working serving customers. The boss – Patrick Lumumba – was dissatisfied with Amanda’s work because she spent time flirting with customers, so he has said in the press. I think she met Guede by accident, invited him to her house for a smoke or more, and with the arrival of her boyfriend as the girls started arguing, encouraged the guys to ‘defend’ Amanda from any insults or accusations of missing money that Meredith may have brought up. I believe they had a number of knives. Her boyfriend always carried one. This could have been the murder weapon, and was then discarded afterwards. The other was only used in taunting until the escalation got out of control. Too bad Guede has not come forth with the real story – as he has said the most so far, believable or not.
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Yes, she is guilty and needs to pay for her crime. Though, I don’t think 26 years will bring back Meredith.
I believe she is guilty. If not her, then who killed Meredith Kercher?
How about Rudy Guede?
He’s not just convicted of it… he has the motive, the past history of similar break-ins replete with a knife, the ONLY indisputable DNA evidence (including proof of sexual contact with the deceased during a supposed sex crime and DNA on her purse, which was missing over 300+ euros), a confession about the bloody shoes, and the most unlikely alibi.
On that last point, Rudy’s alibi actually INCLUDED a claim of consensual sex with the deceased, who (a) we were told was very reserved in her values and indeed that was part of the story here, (b) didn’t really know Rudy well if at all, except for having been in the same room with him when he was crashing with downstairs neighbors, and (c) who seems unlikely, then, to have willingly had sex with a guy — Rudy — who witnesses saw dancing later in a club and who stood away from him because “it smelled like he hadn’t washed.”
That plus the fact that he says he absolutely WAS there before, during, and after the murder… makes it pretty conclusive that the sex was without consent. (Conclusive in the “beyond a reasonable doubt” sense). Already a crime (rape). And it’s an easy leap (again satisfying “beyond a reasonable doubt” that her rapist would also be involved in the killing and that the two crimes would be very unlikely to have been committed by separate perpetrators who happened to attack the same girl in the same night (as would then have to be the case, per the “I was in the bathroom” part of Rudy’s alibi.)
Hence, there’s no need anymore to ask “then who.” Rudy is — beyond a reasonable doubt — easily proven to be at LEAST one of the murders, if not the sole killer. Using his own words and extremely clear forensic evidence (again, the only non-disputed forensic evidence in the case… his DNA all over the body and site, mixed with the blood… remember that the infamous knife is NOT established as the murder weapon and did NOT have blood DNA from Meredith at all. Only about 20 or less skin cells… enough that they could have come from a sample picked up long before on Amanda or Rafaelle’s clothes… and also remember, the knife in question was picked randomly by police from Sallecito’s kitchen drawer and could NOT have made two of the three wounds on Meredith’s neck).
So… Rudy did it. So no need for the “then who” question.
But then, of course, the next step is to prove whether he did it alone or had help. There’s every reason to think he COULD have done it alone… Rudy, before being a homeless drifter, played basketball for an Italian team. In fact, playing basketball was how he knew the guys downstairs. No question then that he could have overpowered Meredith, even if she had studied Karate or whatever. He’s not a weak guy.
But could Amanda and Sallecito helped him, for some reason? Sure. So could have five other guys. Or a large gorilla. Or the Italian brute squad. Or 100 angry five year olds.
But other than the story woven by the prosecutor just days after the discovery of the crime… in a story arch that’s disturbingly similar to the whacko musings of an occult-fascinated Italian blogger who had a “vision” from a dead priest that told her what might have happened… and which seems to be a theme (sex and Satanism) that’s appeared in MANY of the prosecutor’s prior cases, in much the same way (no evidence, all speculation that was supported afterward with circumstantially re-crafted “proof”)…
There’s nothing… zero… nada… that actually puts Amanda and Sallecito there, beyond the very important pale of “reasonable doubt.”
Not one forensic detail presented regarding those two was conclusive or even close to it. And even the circumstantial stuff is easily explained away (you’ll find many willing to show you how, should you doubt that).
Even if you feel her cartwheel story or the confused police interrogation session are relevant, they don’t definitively say “One Cannot Doubt… this has a clear connection to the specific crime.” You just can’t do it. Emotionally, you might be able to say that. But rationally, as the law is supposed to operate, it cannot be done. Cartwheels do not, in any universe, equal murder. Nor do “evil blue eyes” or “she smiled in court and sings Beatles songs.”
Without a confession, witness, or universally indisputable DNA evidence… a conviction is unwarranted. Period.
I think she is innocent. It just doesn’t makes sense that 3 people who barely knew each other would get together to do something like this. Also, Guede’s DNA was all over the room — it doesn’t make sense that he would leave so much more than Amanda and Rafaelle (and the DNA they have on them is certainly questionable).Besides, she genuinely seems like a peace-loving person to me (although I don’t know her at all). My only guess is that Guede is solely responsible.
Most Americans think Knox is not guilty, it seems just because she’s American. They know nothing about the evidence or lack there of, she’s just not guilty.
Now the smear campaigns against the prosecutor; I read on one discussion page that the prosecutor looks like a child molester. I wondered how he knew what a child molester looks like.
I’m sorry, but can we stop this particular rejoinder from being entertained? Look, you’re probably right… there are probably Americans who want to defend her mostly because she’s American.
But what do you know of “most Americans?” And how is that any more right than Americans saying that “most Italians” treat this trial as a way to push their own nationalist agenda?
I’m American… and yes, I think she’s innocent. But that has nothing to do with her nationality or mine. Frankly, I live overseas (France) and love Italy (we honeymooned there). And I’m the FIRST person to tell anyone else that Americans often have a very limited understanding of how the world works, how isolated they are in their thinking, and how they’re generally unaware of how to behave outside of their home country.
Certainly, I have no disagreement, that we have a ways to go before we stand well on the world stage. Whatever you want to say about that, go ahead.
But I’m damn tired of hearing people tell me that I must be somehow too stupid to have actually read the evidence and still form an opinion, because somehow my origin of birth makes me dumber than you are.
I defend the girl on these forums NOT because she’s pretty (so was Kercher), NOT because she’s American (I can name plenty of my own countrymen I’m not so fond of… one of them was our President for eight years), but because every damn time I apply my 148 I.Q. to that pile of evidence… and I’ve read substantially on both the pro and con blogging sites, the press exposes, and the online video news investigations that include photos of the crime scenes… this adds up incorrectly.
What’s more, while it’s not “evidence” per se, I can’t deny that postings like yours (“Americans defend only because she’s American/pretty/white” etc.) and those that rabidly attack her for smoking pot/premarital sex/doing cartwheels/being a bad waitress/sloppy roomate, as if that had ANYTHING to do with the capital crime in question, make it extremely clear that if there’s anybody out there who deserves to be accused of basing grave judgments on nothing… it’s not me or my own.
It’s people like you.
Disagree if you like on the real issues. But there’s already been one life destroyed here (Meredith’s). Now there are three more hanging directly in the balance (Amanda, Rafaelle, Rudy) and several others indirectly but deeply connected (the respective families).
You are disgusted to think that Americans might defend Americans in such a serious situation… yet you’re blind to the fact that you’re willing to dismiss what could very well be a real miscarriage of justice because you assume your own reverse application of prejudice is proof enough that your version is correct.
If you’re not going to think, then keep quiet. This is too serious for unserious conclusions.
She changed her story so many times that I would have to say she is guilty.
Would you also then have to say that Rudy was the one guilty party, as the defense suggests, because he first said she wasn’t there and then said she was? Would you have to say that the prosecution was clearly incompetent, because they also changed their story… saying the murder occurred at one time and then shifted it to two hours later because that fit better with their speculation on Amanda and Sollecito’s involvement? Would you then say that the police were clearly incompetent, because they said they collected evidence carefully, but then were seen on their own video recordings kicking in the glass doors of neighboring buildings, wiping up blood evidence from the floor with a towel, handling multiple pieces of evidence at once without changing gloves, taking evidence from the seen and then returning it after many weeks, leaving their own papers and other equipment lying all over the crime scene to pile up for many weeks at a time?
Knox changed her story after (a) first asserting exactly the same story she ended her trial with (b) just finding out/seeing her roommate with a slashed throat (c) being arrested FOR the crime that SHE and her boyfriend called in to the police (d) getting interrogated for 14 hours over, including twice getting smacked in the head so they could “help her remember” and (e) after explaining, in the same sentences that contained the supposed “changed story,” stating directly that what she was saying might have happened was confused in her mind and that she was scared, tired, and confused enough while saying it that she wasn’t sure enough what was going on anymore, in that so-called confessional moment.
And all of this without her attorney present. Perhaps not a requirement in Italy (I’m not sure), but it’s not a very good sign of reliability of that changed story or how it was drawn out of her.
Yes, I believe that she is guilty….I just don’t think she remembers what really happened that night. No matter, it will not bring Merideth back.
You know… you could make almost the same statement. Consider this version:
“Yes, I believe that she is innocent….I just don’t think she remembers what really happened that night. No matter, it will not bring Merideth back.”
Her memory has nothing to do with whether or not Meredith can be brought back. Nor does this irreversibility of Meredith’s death imply anything about Knox’s guilt. As for memory lapses, well, if that was relevant we’d have a lot more college students on death row right now.
Yes, she is guilty in someway or another. I dont think that she is this miss little innocent that her family would like you to believe. In fact, her family (particulary her Dad) gets on my nerves. They have been very arrogant about this whole thing. Listen up parents, whether you want to admit it or not, your daughter has shown some very peculiar behavior from the very beginning. From doing cartwheels at the police station or smirking in court or anytime there is a camera present, is a bit odd to say the least. Either she is off in the head or being a smart ass, it is not becoming. And I think it’s a mistake to drag the US state department into this. The whole world thinks that the US shoves other countries around as it is, this will only reinforce their thinking if the US Government gets involved in a case where “foxy Knoxy” as she like to call herself (how vain!)may actually be guilty of murder. Let her parents deal with her, she is their child, for better or worse, and it looks like in this case, for the worse.
At least she is alive and the parents can visit and send letters to the daughter, Poor Meridith who is gone forever. Guess what Little Girl, YOU are guilty take you hard knocks in life,American dont mean shit overseas, YOU should have behaved yourself.
I agree she is guilty of murder. The American media portrays her as a saint and they don’t tell the true facts of the story. Dateline and 48 Hours made it appear she was an innocent person caught up in a corrupt Italian legal system. They speculated that the jury was compiled of unaware, stupid people not educated enough to comprehend the facts in the case and unable to sort through all the dna evidence. A senator from Washington State has proclaimed she will fight for the release of Amanda through the State Department and with Hillary Clinton’s help. If this happens I will be so upset. The State Department better not get involved, America is already seen as bullies in the eyes of the world and this will just confirm that fact. The Italians have a right to run their country the way they want. Amanda is guilty, justice has been served. I am going to write the State Department and ask that they do not get involved in this case. Leave the Italians and their court system alone.
Every comment so far reveals total ignorance about the details of the case or is fueled by anti Americanism. As far as your article is concerned there was absolutely no forensic or DNA evidence presented implicating Ms. Knox that would have been admissible in either a Canadian or U.S. court. The only “witness”was a woman who purportedly heard 3 sets of foot steps running from the house. She heard these sometime after midnight through a closed window over 100 yards away from the house. No independent investigators have been able to hear anything in attempts to duplicate the witnesses story. Further, despite what this article purports there was no DNA or forensic evidence against Ms. Knox that would have been even considered admissible in a U.S. or Canadian court. The trace DNA was collected 5 months after the murder (inadmissable), was carelessly passed around by several investigators resulting in multiple broken chains of custody, and was so minute it was destroyed in the only govt test therefore unable to be independently tested. Add to that the jury was not sequestered at all during the trial and the prosecutor is involved in his own corruption trial. Finally, there was clear & substantial DNA & fingerprint evidence found on the victim’s body which linked a well known petty thief, Rudy Guede, to the crime scene. Rudy Guede was apprehended in Germany after fleeing Italy the day after the murder. Mr. Guede has repeatedly denied ever seeing Amanda Knox the night of the murder. Of course, why let the facts get in the way of convicting a pretty American girl to 26 yrs in prison.
This is one American that believes that most juries get it right unless they are not allowed to hear all evidence. Right or wrong she has been found guilty. For any government to get involved including the US government is wrong unless they can prove some wrong doing. It certainly sounded to me as if the evidence they had was sufficient. The jury obviously thought so too.
She is NOT GUILTY.
She is not guilty of murder. She is guilty of sinful behavior though. She should have remained in America. Her parents have reared a very wanton daughter. And people need to stop using Face Book and the like. They are offering themselves up to Big Brother.
The evidence is not tainted and Amanda Knox is clearly a murderer.
Only God knows if Amanda Fox is guilty or not.There is no guarantee of perfection and accuracy of any legal prosecutions at any court in any place of the world.anybody can be a victim of circumstances.
NOT GUILTY!
I agree with the majority of Joseph Gibron’s analysis.
That said, permit me to rant a bit:
I am not saying that those who find Amanda guilty here in this forum are necessarily antiAmerican, but I wonder if they’ve read the details of this case. I have read up on it rather extensively..and from British sources, Canadian sources, American sources, and Italian sources.
In my view, there is simply not enough evidence, forensic or otherwise, to merit a conviction for Amanda or her boyfriend.
Unfortunately, I am Canadian, and Canada and the U.S. have a different approach to judicial proceedings than the Italians pursue. And the police are much more accountable over here than they obviously are in Italy with regard to their interrogation procedures. There is no video or documentation produced on the part of the police which validate they operated by any standard procedure. Amanda testified that she was not even informed that she was a suspect when interrogated…she didn’t find that out until she appeared before a judge. She explained why she implicated her boss, by feeding into a line of questioning by police. (There is some speculation that they knew atleast one of the assailants was african, by hair they located on the hand of the victim at the scene). I can see a 20-year-old being scared, and caving to convoluted questions, in the heat of intimidation.. One somewhat objective interpreter sided with the interrigation scenerio in her favour. Moreover, the Supreme Court of Italy threw out a confession she made during an interrogation because it was basically ‘lawyerless’. If the confession was contrived from improper interrogation procedures, shall I believe that the rest of the ‘fruits’ of the interrogation were done above board and by due procedure.
The forensic ‘evidence’ was collected with questionable expertise (video captions) and such was left to top notch forensic experts to “interpret”. They can only interpret that which they’ve been given to work with. They might even assume that the evidence was collected properly….if you read some accounts, and from Italian forensic experts, bothspeculation and contamination abounded.
The window allegedly broken (from the inside) by Meredith’s assailants to stage a robbery didn’t seem to merit alot of investigation by the prosecution, other than to say that, from the prosecution’s perpective, this is what happened. Their rationale is that it would take a spiderman to be able to access the window from the outside, given its height from the ground. So, who could do that to gain entry to rob the place, and why? All why’s aside,the defence in turn demonstrated, and produced photos, on how it was quite possible, given the railings below the window of the cottage. And what of the glass? I haven’t found anything on that, yet. Would have been nice…would have indicated from which direction the window was broken. It may have made the motive a little more clear, one way or the other.
Of the three suspects of this murder, the man who had the most undisputable forensic evidence against him…clear bloody footprint on a bathroom mat soaked with the victims blood, his fingerprints near the victim on the pillow,is convicted and behind bars, and had been convicted for a time before he decided to change his story and implicate Amanda and her boyfriend, Raffaele. Initially the story was that Amanda wasn’t in the picture, now he says she was. He has a criminal record, had been arrested for robberies and B&E in a kindergarten facility…yet his story is being treated like Bible Truth. His inconsistencies are not being questioned at all. But Amanda and Raffaele are being held to accountability to the hour and minute on what they were doing. Hey,if you asked me what I did a week ago, I can give you a general idea, and approximate the time, but I might leave out a detail or two. I simply don’t *log* everything I do. Could such an omission be reasonably considered an attempt to dodge justice?
The murder weapon is a longshot…doesn’t resemble the bloody outline of a knife on the duvet of the victim’s room, and the tidbit of DNA which is supposed to be Meredith’s DNA is being disputed, and the size of the knife has been expertly disputed as the one which could have inflicted some of the knife wounds.
The blood in the sink. It is, by expert opinion, likely blood of the victim mixed with the DNA of Amanda, the latter being less representative than the DNA of Meredith. They shared the bathroom. No mention of any investigator asking Amanda if she had cut herself recently. They don’t think it’s Amanda’s blood, just DNA. Amanda apparently had a shower in the bathroom the night of the murder, and saw small amounts of blood in the shower. Well, I might think, ‘well, she cut herself shaving again’ or something, depending on my roommates habits…I would not assume the worst. Apparently they are wondering why she didn’t immediately freak out on that.
As I wade through all this, I come to the following conclusions:
*All* they have is the inconsistencies of Amanda’s story, to cast her in a dim light, lastly as a result of procedures which the Supreme Court of Italy itself had some issue with.
*All* they have is the rather loose conclusions of an overzealous prosecutor who has concluded that three rather recently aquainted people got together, picked on Meredith for sex (at Amanda’s bidding) and killed her for noncompliance.
*All* they have is the varied objectivity of media reports, including character analysis of Amanda Knox, which suggested *evidences* which were never formally introduced in court, all for a nonsequestered jury to do their best to separate fact from fancy.
*All* they have are witnesses who were either too far away to give an accurate account of footsteps heard, and testimonial accounts refuted by other testimony. In short, they have no witnesses.
That is *all* they have that I can see, the sumtotal of which in weighting guilt of innocence of murder is *nothing*
Accounting for differences in our respective legal systems,I am personally hardpressed to see enough evidence for a conviction of either Amanda or her boyfriend. But read as I may, I’m pragmatic enough to realize that I probably don’t have *all* of the facts. But, assuming that I’m missing something within the forensics, or an even more obvious piece of the puzzle pointing to their guilt, I remain confident that this whole thing, has been handled rather poorly.
When Amanda was escorted to the courtroom and out again after reception of her verdict, a crowd gathers around, some of them chanting “Assassina Americana”…not just Assassin, but “AMERICAN” assassin. This troubles me also. This smacks not only of a distaste for a women they regard as a murderess, but one who is American.
I am hoping the appeal process will be in favour of an acquittal. I hoping the Supreme Court will remember the problems they had with Amanda’s *confession* and recognize that there were likely problems with the other outcomes of her interrogation by police. I am also hoping that a fragment of a bra found 6 weeks after the murder, swept into a bunch of junk, shown to be mishandled by forensic investigators will be dismissed for what it is, a nonissue, and Amanda’s boyfriend is freed also They apparently found his DNA on the metal clasps of a bra belonging to the victim..but noplace else. The prosecution suggested that he ripped it off the victim…but the problem with that is, it is impossible to do that without touching the cloth adjacent to the clasps (try it). Now, to be devil’s advocate, one could say that if the forensic evidence had of been collected with a bit more clean technique, we may have found additional fingerprints..of either him, or someone else, to better aid the investigation. It just seemed as though the observance of proper procedure, and other issues of propriety weren’t terribly important.
The Italian judicial system is a particular eye opener for me in that I can be jailed for up to a year before they bother to charge me with anything…under certain circumstances, but this is of cold comfort to me. I honestly don’t think I’ll be taking any trips to Italy. I can afford lawyers, but they didn’t do any good in this case, and I don’t think it’s because they were unskilled.
My two cents,
Susan
Guilty, you don’t lie to the police. They have a dead 22 year old girl and they are trying to solve a murder case. Emotions run high when you see a dead body of a young girl stabbed multiple times and Amanda Knox is doing cartwheels and handstands in the police station. She implicated her boss in the murder. She actually said she heard Meredith being murdered by her boss in Meredith’s room. Her boss was in jail for 2 weeks, he has since lost his business, he has a wife and small child. Amanda then says she was lying about the boss and told her original story. You don’t lie to the police they don’t like it.
The Verdict against Amanda Knox and the resulting pain this has brought to her family, along with the tremendous cost of the defense (said to be US$1M) should be a warning to anyone considering travel or study abroad. Unfortunately, Americans have little realization of the peril that their actions can place them in. Innocent activities performed in the United States may have disastrous legal consequences, when enacted in other countries. Nonetheless, even persons of good humor and tremendous patience should not expect to be interrogated for forty-one hours straight, being struck physically on her person, supposedly make a confession; but yet have the videotape of the supposed confession go missing. Neither should any civilized country suggest that a young woman could possibly be convicted of any crime (lest Murder) without the slightest evidence that she had actually been in the room where the crime occurred. Yet there we are, with Italian prosecutors putting forward a ridiculous scenario, which has branded Ms. Knox as some sort of satanic figure. The Prosecutions theory of the crime puts two young people who have no criminal background or history of sexual deviancy squarely in the docks and eventually after two years in custody saddled with a twenty-five year sentence. But Stop! Wait just a moment. The Prosecution already had the real killer! Mr. Rudy Guede was a small time thief living in the Perugia area, known to have not only carried a knife, but to have threatened people with a knife. Originally from Africa, Mr. Guede was arrested in Germany two weeks after leaving Perugia the day after the murder. He had no real explanation of why he had left Perugia so coincidently the day after the murder. Mr. Guede told police that Amanda and Rafaele were not at the apartment the night that he was there which was the night of the murder. According to Mr. Guede, he was supposedly invited into the apartment by the victim and had sex with her. Really! Isn’t it more likely that Mr. Guede is the person who broke the third roommate’s bedroom window, entered the apartment, then raped and killed the young lady? Even though Mr. Guede, after hours of police interrogation changed his story, implicating Amanda & Rafaele. Why would the Italian State come after Amanda and her boyfriend? Although the persecution… I mean prosecution could come up with absolutely no rationale motive for the crime, strangely though the judges came down with a sentence provided by testimony that had no witnesses nor any physical evidence. No epithelios or blood evidence belonging to the victim was discovered on Ms. Knox and the DNA was so microscopic as to not have been able to be tested twice. This “so-called” DNA evidence was discovered on the handle of the alleged murder weapon; a knife found in the kitchen of Ms. Knox’s former boyfriend and could have easily been placed there during the preparation of a meal. Furthermore, that very DNA could not be legally challenged by the defense. Utilizing any information other than what actually happened during the alleged commission of the crime is completely unreasonable. Rather Ms. Knox kissed her boyfriend outside a memorial or did a cartwheel in La Stazione Polizia di’Perugia, people react to sorrow, grief and the stress of false accusations, in different ways often with behavior that may not necessarily seem appropriate at that moment or in a particular atmosphere. This is not the first time in very recent history that Americans have been unfairly found guilty of unfounded crimes by way of “show trials”. Remember the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency personnel that were convicted, while they were in fact operating in full cooperation with the Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza di’Italia. The Italian Justice system seems to operate without even the slightest pretense of a sense of fairness. Pseudo-confessions without evidence cannot be considered valid and should not be upheld. What Americans should seriously consider is a BOYCOTT on travel to Italy, at least until such a time as their basic rights to trial by a fair and un-biased jury, can be guaranteed by the Italian government.
hey rodger do you mean the great justice system we have here in america that said the executive branch had the right to kidnap a person, send them to get tortured and then release them when they figured out that they are innocent??? Mr. Anar of Canada was held for a year with no family contact, lawyer, or anyone and was repeatedly tortured in order to get false information. He was found completely innocent so he is a damaged person for life because of this. Or do you mean the government that went to Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, no sorry, I mean Sadaam had ties to Terrorist, which the defense department has ruled that Iraq had neither WMD nor ties to al queda. Yet 1,000,000 have been displaced as refugees, over 500,000 dead, innocent people have been dissappeared, tortured and left for dead. In addition we accidentally bomb camps in Afghanistan which have killed thousands of innocent people. Do they get to protest in court for the innocent killing of their families. Yet Senator Cantwell finds it important enough to contact the SECRETARY OF THE STATE!!!! while we are in the middle of TWO WARS, A collapsing economy with a 22 trillion dollar debt between the fed reserve and treasury, a job crisis with homeless tent cities propping up everywhere because there are no jobs, and yet she contacts senator clinton to ask about AMANDA KNOX?????? THAT IS HOW STUPID SOME PEOPLE TRULY ARE!!!! MAYBE WHEN THE SECOND GREAT DEPRESSION HITS, YOU WILL GET IT!!
Susan I completely agree with you
At first I thought AK was guilty! However I began to do whatever research I could on this case, and as far as what is available to the public I can honestly say that I would NOT be ok with convicting AK or RS. Were either of them involved in the murder we may never know but to say they are guilty is rediculous! Show me the proof!
However, I would be ok with convicting RG… the evidence against him is overwhelming.
Also, the prosecutor is a nut job! He has thrown his rediculous beliefs of satanic rituals in trials before. Every murder to him is a satanic ritual… It is very sad that he has ruined what seems to be two innocent peoples lives because of his overly religous conspiracy theories!
As for the odd behavior with AK and RS we all act differently to extremely stressful situations. She was NOT making out with RS when they were investigating the house… They were giving pecks to eachother, I don’t know about you all but I find kisses like those to be consoling! As for the cartwheels and what not.. I haven’t seen any video footage of that, I do agree it’s weird, but still not incriminating!
Finally, my thoughts and prayers are with all the families especially that of Meredith Kercher. No matter what it is you believe their loss is the greatest.
i think that she is not guity after i did all my research on this case and what is availble to the pubilc that the courts are taking this way to far like look at the prosecutor he is a nut job and for the jury who falls asleep while in court i think that they got all their facts wrong and that believe it or not i think all because she lived in the house with the girl yeah her finger prints are gonna bfe there and what not but can u prove it was her no there is no wepon with her finger pritns on it nothing.people think she is guity because she lied to the police well what would you do if you were up for murder that you did not even do. However RG…..the evidence against him is overwhelming. my thoughts and prayers are with the families.
That’s why you don’t believe everything you read, genius.
guilty!
About those “cartwheels”…it turns out that after she had been waiting for a long time in that room at the police station, she did some yoga stretches…which were first reported as “the splits”…and then “cartwheels”. She may be a flaky pacific northwest hippie type, but she’s hardly a murderer.
Indeed, the more you research what’s out there about this case, the more absurd the so-called “evidence” becomes.
As a Canadian who grew up watching all three American major networks, I recognize their pro-US biases when I see them. But this isn’t it, as far as the massive outrage about this verdict is concerned. There are plenty of Americans doing time in various prisons around the world who didn’t garner the support that Amanda Knox has gotten. Why? Because they are guilty and she is not.
Amanda Knox is a slut.