Verdict Due in Amanda Knox Re-Trial Today
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http://www.theweek.co.uk/europe/amanda-knox/55260/amanda-knox-ready-become-fugitive-if-found-guilty-again
I would hope they reach the right verdict this time and find her not guilty but it's hard to predict considering how the case has been handled up until now.
But even with a not guilty verdict, I suspect there'll still be another appeal ..
I would hope they reach the right verdict this time and find her not guilty but it's hard to predict considering how the case has been handled up until now.
But even with a not guilty verdict, I suspect there'll still be another appeal ..
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The case will automatically be appealed apparently.
Its like having a Justin Bieber concert without him turning up.
Edit to add: Maybe wrong example.
I've barely seen or heard anything about the re-trial, so I hope that points to a not guilty verdict. How it was even able to go to a re-trial is baffling to me.
I guess the fact that she wasn't there probably meant that it wasn't newsworthy in the eyes of the news channels.
If Giuliano Mignini still has any influence in the case, it won't be dropped any time soon.
However, it will be a grotesque injustice to Sollecito.
There is not one shred of real evidence that Amanda Knox was anywhere near the apartment when it happened.
Most significant of all, none of her DNA or Sollecito's DNA was found in Kercher's room. Yet it was full of Guede's.
Your response is exactly what Colin Stagg had to endure for years.
And a just verdict does not go on 'feelings'.
Yeah. Evil eyes and a crooked nose.
Or perhaps just female (no-one seems to think Sollectico has 'that look' about him).
Exactly. But, sadly, people have read a lot of the salacious gossip in the papers over the years and put two and two together to come up with their feeling that she's "hiding something".
The truth has been revealed. The real killer of Mereditch Kercher is currently serving a jail sentence for the crime.
And what "look" would that be out that Knox supposedly has ?
Oh most definitely. I've followed the case for many years and the amount of people who think she's guilty because of a "look" or because she was some sort of sordid sex kitten (she wasn't..) is quite amazing - and sad as well i think.
I think its more because she's not a simpering demure woman sobbing her innocence hysterically at every turn.
Or I'd suggest the truth has been revealed, and some people simply don't want to accept it?
What 'look' does she have? You can't judge a book, but you've done exactly that with that comment.
A statement she later retracted. A statement she made after hours of interrogation on her own in a language she didn't even speak at the time. any judge in the us or uk would have tossed the statement as inadmissable considering how it was obtained.
She was found guilty of slander by the same jury that overturned the guilty verdict. The sentence was 3 years (she had already served 4) and a fine of €22000.http://abcnews.go.com/International/amanda-knox-acquitted-leaves-prison/t/story?id=14654317&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2Fsearch%3Fie%3DUTF-8%26source%3Dandroid-browser%26hl%3Den-GB%26q%3Damsnda%2Bknox%2Bprison.sentence%26gws_rd%3Dcr%26ei%3D5DzqUrmaOKSm0AXs9YHADQ
Yes, there were very mean comments in the US where many think she had support. Even today in the news it said she looked as if she didn't have a care in the world. How would they know what she is thinking or feeling?
In addition I see that the prosecution dropped the "sex game gone wrong" theory. I always thought that was fantasy.
I'm aware of that, but it was, if memory serves, because of allegations the police hit her during her interrogation. it still doesn't change the circumstances of the interrogation itself - she was interrogated as a witness rather than a suspect so they could get around the need for her needing legal representation.
I agree about the 'sex game gone wrong' theory being fantasy. it was all part of Mignini's fantasy scenario involving "foxy knoxy". heaven forbid a young, attractive woman actually has sex and doesn't immediately go in to hiding!
I doubt that would bother her. If i was her i would never leave America again, even if i could.
I don't know what i believe when it comes to her to be honest. Everything i know about the case has come from either heavily biased American documentaries for her or a book i read that was clearly biased against her. Theres so much conflicting information that i don't know what to think.
Oh I'm sure they do. Remember poor Christopher Jefferies?