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Post by ♫anna♫ on Nov 28, 2013 4:16:22 GMT
Well, on Anna's point I think that murder is a rather more important issue than university education. On BA's point I think that's a possibility and it would just show how yellow and dishonest Amanda Knox is. Looking at the evidence or rather the lack of evidence this is nothing more than the wrongful accusation of murder. Why should Knox dignify this accusation by throwing her education overboard.
Why should someone feel compelled to go to a medieval court that has accused them of witchcraft?
The Italian prosecutor Mignini and gang have seriously misbehaved in other cases too where they attempted to wrongfully prosecute and demonize innocent people. Giuliano Mignini is a terrible embarassment for Italy.
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Post by Big Lin on Nov 28, 2013 22:41:20 GMT
Anna, you know that even if you're completely innocent you have a duty to face trial.
It's typical of Knox's shiftiness and narcissism that she hasn't got the guts to do so.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Nov 29, 2013 12:55:26 GMT
Anna, you know that even if you're completely innocent you have a duty to face trial. It's typical of Knox's shiftiness and narcissism that she hasn't got the guts to do so. Dearest Lin, Knox and Sollecito were already declared innocent and acquitted. This retrial is a blatant violation of the double jeopardy laws, which exist in the US and probably in the UK also. By US standards this trial is an unconstitutional farce.
The Italian judical system is on trial, not Knox and Sollecito!
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Post by Big Lin on Nov 29, 2013 21:33:26 GMT
Anna, you know that even if you're completely innocent you have a duty to face trial. It's typical of Knox's shiftiness and narcissism that she hasn't got the guts to do so. Dearest Lin, Knox and Sollecito were already declared innocent and acquitted. This retrial is a blatant violation of the double jeopardy laws, which exist in the US and probably in the UK also. By US standards this trial is an unconstitutional farce.
The Italian judical system is on trial, not Knox and Sollecito! I've said on more than one occasion that I don't agree with the double jeopardy law. In the UK the law has now been extensively rewritten so that the murderers of Stephen Lawrence - who got acquitted at the first trial because of police corruption - were finally brought to justice and imprisoned. The double jeopardy law is no more indefensible than an appeal or a retrial - both involve the same people being tried again. Why should it only work in favour of criminals and not of victims?
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Nov 30, 2013 7:43:19 GMT
Dearest Lin, Knox and Sollecito were already declared innocent and acquitted. This retrial is a blatant violation of the double jeopardy laws, which exist in the US and probably in the UK also. By US standards this trial is an unconstitutional farce.
The Italian judical system is on trial, not Knox and Sollecito! I've said on more than one occasion that I don't agree with the double jeopardy law. In the UK the law has now been extensively rewritten so that the murderers of Stephen Lawrence - who got acquitted at the first trial because of police corruption - were finally brought to justice and imprisoned. The double jeopardy law is no more indefensible than an appeal or a retrial - both involve the same people being tried again. Why should it only work in favour of criminals and not of victims? Dearest Lin, Even if we disregard the Double Jeopardy aspect this trial is still a farce that shouldn't be dignified with much a do.
The prosecutor Mignini rambled on about condoms and a vibrator ( which someone gave Knox as a joke ) that investigators found among Knox's possessions. As if this is key evidence to convict Knox. What a joke! Why should Knox come back to Italy to hear this medieval babble, ranting and rubbish that she heard before.
The prosecution has absolutely nothing!
Shame on Italy!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Dec 1, 2013 18:31:24 GMT
Only murderer and career criminal Rudi G*ede's dna was found at the crime scene and on and in Meredith Kercher's body.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Dec 6, 2013 5:11:51 GMT
The latest spin from the empty handed prosecution is claiming that Meredith Kercher was murdered because of an argument that developed after r*di gu*de defecated all over the bathroom.
Of course the con artist and career criminal g*ede knows he can't be prosecuted for defecating and so he (it ) apparently defecated this story onto the prosecution in the hope of conniving his way into a better position. Only Mignini and his minions buy gu*de's defecations.
I can't even print out this silly article. It's simply too tabloid stupid. What an embarrassment for Italy!
www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/525325/20131126/amanda-knox-trial-florence-meredith-kercher-murdered.htm QUOTE: Amanda Knox Retrial: 'Meredith Kercher Murdered over Toilet Cleaning Squabble’
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 9, 2014 21:21:57 GMT
Closing arguments for the defense in the unwarranted Knox/Sollecito retrial were made proclaiming innocence. Amanda Knox sent a letter to the court. So far the prosecution has shown no evidence whatsoever against the accused.
Niente of course means nothing in Italian.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 25, 2014 0:37:49 GMT
Nothing unexpected is happening the Knox/Sollecito retrial in Italy. The prosecution is spending it's time ranting about how Knox refuses to come to Italy and Sollecito had been in other countries. As far as evidence to convict Knox and Sollecito goes the prosecution still has NOTHING! NIENTE!!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 25, 2014 0:39:56 GMT
Nothing unexpected is happening the Knox/Sollecito retrial in Italy. The prosecution is spending it's time ranting about how Knox refuses to come to Italy and Sollecito had been in other countries. As far as evidence to convict Knox and Sollecito goes the prosecution still has NOTHING! NIENTE!![/quote]
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Jan 30, 2014 21:25:21 GMT
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — An appeals court in Florence has upheld the guilty verdict against U.S. student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend for the 2007 murder of her British roommate. Knox was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison, raising the specter of a long legal battle over her extradition.
After nearly 12 hours of deliberations Thursday, the court reinstated the guilty verdict first handed down against Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in 2009. The verdict had been overturned in 2011 and the pair freed from prison, but Italy's supreme court vacated that decision and sent the case back for a third trial in Florence.
While Solecito was in court Thursday morning, he didn't return for the verdict, and Knox was half a world away awaiting the decision with, in her own words, "my heart in my throat."
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
An appeals court in Florence deliberated into the evening Thursday in the third murder trial of U.S. student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend as she waited a continent away with, in her words, "my heart in my throat."
Knox's defense team gave its last round of rebuttals, ending four months of arguments in Knox's and Italian Raffaele Sollecito's third trial for the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in the Italian university town of Perugia.
Knox's lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova told the court he was "serene" about the verdict because he believes the only conclusion from the files is "the innocence of Amanda Knox."
"It is not possible to convict a person because it is probable that she is guilty," Dalla Vedova said. "The penal code does not foresee probability. It foresees certainty."
Dalla Vedova evoked Dante, noting that the Florentine writer reserved the lower circle of hell for those who betrayed trust, as he asserted that police had done to Knox when they held her overnight for questioning without legal representation and without advising her that she was a suspect.
The panel of two professional judges and six lay jury members remained closed in chambers after more than 11 hours of deliberations. A court clerk emerged shortly after 9 p.m. (2000 GMT) and said a verdict was expected shortly.
Knox, 26, awaited the verdict half a world away in Seattle, where she returned after spending four years in jail before being acquitted in 2011. In an email to this court, Knox wrote that she feared a wrongful conviction.
She told Italian state TV in an interview earlier this month that she would wait for the verdict at her mother's house "with my heart in my throat."
Knox's absence does not formally hurt her case since she was freed by a court and defendants in Italy are not required to appear at their trials. However, presiding judge Alessandro Nencini reacted sternly to her emailed statement, noting that defendants have a right to be heard if they appear in person.
Sollecito, 29, on the other hand, has made frequent court appearances, always in a purple sweater, the color of the local Florentine soccer club. He was in court again Thursday morning, accompanied by his father and other relatives and said he would return for the verdict. But as the evening wore on he didn't return.
If convicted, Sollecito, who like Knox spent nearly four years in jail, risks immediate arrest.
Knox's situation is complicated by her absence. In the case of a guilty verdict, experts have said it is unlikely Italy would seek her extradition until a verdict is finalized, a process that can take a year.
Members of Kercher's family were expected to appear later in court and the man whom Knox wrongly accused of Kercher's murder also was on hand for the verdict.
"As I have always said, Amanda was involved," Patrick Diya Lumumba said while the deliberations were under way.
The first trial court found Knox and Sollecito guilty of murder and sexual assault based on DNA evidence, confused alibis and Knox's false accusation against Lumumba, a Congolese bar owner, which resulted in a slander verdict that has been upheld on final appeal. A Perugia appeals court dismantled the guilty verdict two years later, criticizing the "building blocks" of the conviction, including DNA evidence now deemed unreliable by new experts, and the lack of motive.
Italy's highest court ordered the third trial in a scathing dismissal of the appeals court acquittal, ordering the examination of evidence and testimony it said had been improperly omitted by the Perugia appeals court as well as addressing what it called as lapses in logic.
"Most of all, the court was instructed to evaluate all of the evidence in their complexity," said Vieri Fabiani, one of the lawyers for the Kercher family.
The Florence deliberations will either confirm or overturn the initial guilty verdict "as if the acquittal never happened," Fabiani said.
In Florence, the new prosecutor, Alessandro Crini, redefined the motive, moving away from the drug-fueled erotic game described by his colleagues in Perugia. Crini contended that the outburst of violence was rooted in arguments between roommates Knox and Kercher about cleanliness and was triggered by a toilet left unflushed by Rudy Hermann Guede, the only person now in jail for the murder.
Suspicion fell on Knox and Sollecito within days of the discovery of Kercher's half-naked body on Nov. 2, 2007, in her bedroom in Perugia. Kercher, 21, had been sexually assaulted and stabbed multiple times. Knox and Sollecito, who had been dating for only 10 days when Kercher was found dead, said they had spent the evening of the murder at Sollecito's apartment, smoking marijuana, having sex and watching a film.
Guede, a small-time drug dealer originally from Ivory Coast who had previous convictions for break-ins, is serving a 16-year sentence for the murder, but courts have said he did not act alone.
The defense teams for Knox and Sollecito are certain to appeal any guilty verdict to Italy's supreme court, which can take a year or more and could, in theory, result in yet another appeals court trial. The prosecutor general, on the other hand, could decide to let an acquittal stand, although most observers don't believe that's likely.
Crini, who has demanded 26 years on the murder charge for each of the defendants, has asked the court to take measures to ensure any verdict could be enforced. He also asked the court to raise Knox's sentence on the slander conviction from three to four years because he alleges she accused the wrong man to remove suspicion from herself.
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 30, 2014 21:28:56 GMT
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Jan 30, 2014 23:17:44 GMT
I presume Raffaele Sollecito will be arrested and incarcerated. Meanwhile, Amanda Knox will continue to roam free in Seattle.
Will Italy try to extradite her? Would the American authorities cooperate?
Here is one opinion:
Here's Why Amanda Knox Is Not Going To Prison Any Time Soon
REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi Amanda Knox was found guilty — again — of murdering her roommate in Italy and has been sentenced to 28 years and six months in prison. It's the second time she's been found guilty of the same crime. The Italian justice system has been heavily criticized by Americans because the rules allow for someone to be tried again and again for the same crime, even if they're convicted and acquitted.
The case has been controversial — Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, was found dead in the apartment she shared with Knox in 2007.
Prosecutors insist that Knox, an American student who was also studying abroad in Perugia, and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito killed Kercher during a sex game gone wrong or a fight over household chores. Defense attorneys for the pair say they were wrongly implicated and that the evidence against them is nearly non-existent.
Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009 and acquitted in 2011. Knox spent four years behind bars in Italy after the initial guilty verdict.
She insists that she's not going back to Italy to serve more prison time and has said the Italians would have to pull her back "kicking and screaming."
And it's unlikely that Knox will be extradited, according to a legal expert who spoke with CNN.
U.S. law says a person cannot be tried twice on the same charge, and that's exactly what happened to Knox in Italy. A higher court ordered a retrial after Knox's acquittal, creating a seemingly never-ending circuit of trials, appeals, and retrials. Under Italian law, if either side is unhappy with this new verdict, they can appeal.
Former prosecutor Sean Casey told CNN: "Under U.S. law, she was once put in jeopardy and later acquitted. Under the treaty [the U.S. has with Italy], extradition should not be granted."
Justin Peters, a crime correspondent for Slate, writes that the U.S. is "theoretically obligated" to surrender fugitives who have been convicted of crimes in Italy if Italy requests that they be extradited. But there are exceptions — countries can deny requests if the accused has been subjected to double jeopardy in Italian court.
Even if the U.S. doesn't use the double jeopardy argument to fight Knox's extradition, there are other means the government could use to keep her in the country.
Peters notes that the current treaty says Italy would have to provide "a reasonable basis to believe that the person sought committed the offense for which extradition is requested," and the evidence in the Knox-Sollecito trial has been shaky. TIME notes that Knox is now in limbo until Italy decides whether to make an extradition request.
Finally, an international law expert told British newspaper The Independent that if the U.S. refuses to extradite Knox, Italy could go to Interpol for help or issue an international arrest warrant. If that were to happen, Knox would be safe in U.S. territory but not if she traveled abroad.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2014 17:43:54 GMT
I agree, Lin. I hadn't followed this case from the beginning, but saw a detailed documentary about it just the other night. Wasn't Knox let go from the second trial due to some error? Personally I think she is guilty. She's not the first woman who can keep a poker face while being arrested for such a crime.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Feb 2, 2014 20:37:35 GMT
Here is another article proclaiming Knox' innocence. Why Amanda Knox Is Completely Innocent And The Italian Justice System Is Utterly Insane JIM EDWARDS JAN. 31, 2014 Most people know that Amanda Knox — "Foxy Knoxy" — is the pretty American student who was arrested and found guilty of the stabbing death of her British roommate in Italy, during a "sex game" gone wrong, when the pair were on study-abroad programs several years ago. Unfortunately, a far smaller number of people know that Knox was probably completely innocent of the crime; that another man was successfully convicted of the murder; and that NONE of the evidence — blood, DNA, or witnesses — ever really pointed to Knox. Amanda Knox REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi Amanda Knox - then. Here's a primer on the Knox case, and the miscarriage of justice at the heart of it. Knox was initially convicted. Confusingly, the verdict was overturned by an Italian appeals court and then, a higher Italian court overturned that acquittal and asked that the case be heard again at the trial level. Thursday, Knox was found guilty again. She may choose to appeal the verdict. This, of course, would never happen in a U.S. court, where the Constitution forbids suspects from being repeatedly retried. Meredith Kercher Wikimedia, CC Meredith Kercher The frustration for followers of the case — and Knox herself, of course — is that most people have a vague sense that she was Meredith Kercher's killer, and that somehow — on a technicality! — she wriggled free. It's important to understand that when Knox went to Perugia to study, she was just 20 years old. Like a lot of kids in college, she experimented with marijuana, booze, and boys. She didn't feel the need to apologize or hide the fact. This part of the Knox story — that she was a pretty, unapologetic party girl — seems to have worked against Knox from the start, even though it has nothing to do with the case. Kercher's killer is actually Rudy Guede, an itinerant African immigrant. Guede found Kercher's body in the house she shared with Knox (even though he didn't live there). His fingerprints were found at the scene. He admitted being there prior to the killing (and using the toilet). And one of his palm prints was found in a blood stain underneath Kercher's body. He then fled town, and had to be extradited back to Italy from Germany to stand trial. He's serving 16 years. In the excellent book on the case, "The Fatal Gift of Beauty; The Trials of Amanda Knox," author Nina Burleigh describes Guede's history with the law: He was previously arrested for housebreaking, and on one occasion stole a knife (Kercher was stabbed). The baffling part of the book (which is sourced at a level of detail that's almost excruciating) is, why Knox was prosecuted in the first place. The answer is that the Italian prosecutor in charge of the case was an obsessed weirdo who was convicted of corruption. Giuliano Mignini had previously prosecuted the "Monster of Florence" serial killer case and became convinced that it was a masonic conspiracy. His case came to nothing. Mignini was later convicted of illegally tapping the phones of various police and reporters connected to the Florence case, and was given a 16-month suspended sentence. Somehow, he was allowed to be in charge of the Kercher murder, and he screwed that up too. The alleged ritualistic sex game, for instance, turned out to be manufactured from whole cloth. There was no evidence indicating Knox killed Kercher: No DNA evidence linked Knox to the crime, even though she lived in the same house as Kercher. The forensic evidence that did exist was mishandled by Italian authorities prior to trial. (Kercher's bra clasp was left on the floor of the crime scene for six weeks before blood evidence was found on it.) A bloody knife print didn't match the knife police had in custody, so Mignini's team had to create a theory involving two knives, Burleigh reports. One of Mignini's witnesses against Knox was Antonio Curalato, a homeless anarchist who slept on a bench near Knox's house. He testified on who was near the house that night, and he also remembered seeing a party bus on the night of the killing. Burleigh's book shows that that bus was not scheduled to run on the night of Kercher's death. Curalato turned out to be a serial witness and heroin addict whom the police had persuaded to testify in two other murder cases. It's not just that Knox was falsely accused. It's that her entire life was ruined in the process, in the most vindictive and sexist way possible. At one point, Burleigh reveals, a police official posing as a doctor informed Knox she had HIV, and asked her to name all her previous sexual partners so they could be alerted to the risk. She did so, and only found out later that it was a trick — the Italian cops just wanted to know about her sex life. (Her boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, was also eventually acquitted of aiding in Kercher's murder.) Knox was guilty of two things: She did falsely accuse Patrick Lumumba, a bar owner, of being involved in the crime. She was convicted of that libel and sentenced to time served (three of the four years she spent behind bars). She was also guilty of being young and naive. Burleigh's book paints a picture anyone who has ever been 20 years old and away from home for the first time will recognize: a girl enjoying herself, taking risks, being a bit of a jerk by all accounts, and not really understanding — or caring — how the perceptions of older adults might play against her. She was convicted in part because the Lumumba accusation made her look guilty; because she failed to act sad enough; and because the Italian authorities and jury had sexist views of her behavior. Few Americans regard the Knox case as a feminist issue, or Knox as a victim of discrimination. (She served four years in prison for having a sex life, basically). They should reconsider. Read more: www.businessinsider.com/why-amanda-knox-is-innocent-2014-1#ixzz2sCOdiPqX
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Post by Big Lin on Feb 2, 2014 22:06:50 GMT
In the first place from a purely technical point of view the double jeopardy ruling doesn't apply because under Italian law the whole process is not completed until all avenues have been gone through. So the defendant can be convicted, aqcuitted and then convicted and acquitted at different stages of the process.
Secondly I don't believe the double jeopardy argument is anything to do with justice.
It's a criminal's charter.
If you're going to allow appeals by convicted prisoners you also have to allow the prosecution to appeal against a verdict of not guilty.
After all, we all know about cases like O J Simpson where an obviously guilty man was found not guilty.
Thirdly, in the two full trials there have been all three defendants were found guilty each time by a jury.
It was judges and NtOT the jurors who ruled her conviction unsafe.
Now it's a certainty that the jury will have had access to far more evidence than the public or media and yet they still found Knox and Sollecito guilty on both occasions.
I'm going to post an article giving a rather different perspective on Knox.
Her fans have been warned!
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Post by Big Lin on Feb 2, 2014 22:14:07 GMT
www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/meredith-kercher-killer-amanda-knox-3100098Meredith Kercher killer Amanda Knox is an ICE MAIDEN says her prison guard Foxy Knoxy showed no emotion over death of Meredith and masterfully plays the part of a tearful victims says her prison guard Actress? Amanda Knox appears on Good Morning America in NYC. Reuters Amanda Knox is an Ice Maiden who has reinvented herself as teary-eyed victim, says the guard who watched over her in prison. Unveiling the real Foxy Knoxy, Angela Antonietti told how the cold hearted killer never once cried during her time inside and was completely devoid of human compassion. Angela, 65, said: “Now she’s become this TV star, who cares passionately about what happened to her friend Meredith Kercher, and wants the truth to come out. “She’s painting herself as a warm, loving human being, but the Amanda I knew was so composed, I never saw her suffering and other prisoners and staff called her the Ice Maiden. “She never, ever talked of Meredith or expressed emotion about her death. Whenever Meredith’s face came on TV she didn’t want to know and didn’t respond. She was impenetrable. “Underneath the veneers she remains the same controlled woman I knew well in Capanne prison. She was so composed, I never saw her suffering. “She now presents herself to the world as an image of compassion, and thoughtfulness, with a carefully presented look that changes when she wants to look serious. or glamorous She’s a brilliant actress.” The Italian warden told how her prisoner slept like a baby and was always singing and dancing around her cell. Angela was Knox’s favourite at the gloomy woman’s prison near Perugia. But she kept her distance and came to dislike her immensely. She added: “She became attached to me. I opened her cell each morning and shut her in at night. She liked English music like the Beatles and always sang. She hadguitar lessons, too and she was in plays.” Angela also revealed how callous Knox refused to interact with other prisoners because she felt superior. Tasked with guarding the American and seeing to her needs, the warden has always believed the Italian court would uphold Knox’s murder conviction. She said: “All of the guards who knew Knox hoped she would be brought to justice. “Her behaviour behind bars was so extraordinary. I wanted to believe she couldn’t have been involved, but we all knew there was another side to her she didn’t want us to see. “She was unlike any other prisoner. I’ve never seen another girl like her, especially so young. She’s magnetic and manipulative. She had no emotions for people, only books. She never talked to other prisoners, she was only concerned about her world. “Even when they freed her after the appeal, she didn’t speak to a single person she had just spent four years with, just walked out. That’s not human, is it?” Once in prison, instead of socialising, Knox grew obsessed with books, reading Kafka and Dostoevsky late into the night. “The only time she seemed anxious was when she was waiting for her mother to send the second Harry Potter book. It’s the most emotion I ever saw in her.” Angela was a prison warden for 25 years and worked at Capanne until she retired in 2009. But she said her then 22-year-old charge refused to ever speak about her crime. Angela added: “She would never talk about that night. You will never understand what really happened. I never heard her say Meredith’s name. She only ever referred to her as ‘My poor friend’.” Reuters Manipulative? Amanda Knox reacts during her interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" in New York Although Knox tried repeatedly to gain her favour, Angela saw through her act: “Her behaviour wasn’t human. Even the doctor didn’t understand her. “She seemed so sure she’d get out and sure of herself. She was the only prisoner who slept like a baby without pills. “At 8am I would open her cell. I never once found her undressed, she always had on a track suit, hair tied up. “She never cried, never seemed anxious and never got bored in the four years. She’s impenetrable. “I’m a maternal sort of woman, so she tried to become close to me but I distanced myself. She liked to crochet and made me a necklace, the same as for her mother. But I either lost it or threw it away. I knew she was always showing her best side like she was in a job interview. I was so sorry for her victim.” Justice: Prison warden Angela Angela added: “Once her mother had tears in her eyes when she visited, so I went to help her with her coat and give her some kind words. “It was just a gesture, I told her to have courage. But Amanda turned and went back to her cell and never thanked me the next day or even mentioned it.” Angela revealed how the student had special privileges because of US Government pressure on the Italians. “It was all political but she had all the books she wanted. She had so many she could have started a library. She always had money in her prison bank account, too, unlike the other prisoners. She just did whatever she wanted. “Being in prison was just like being in university for her. “She never once offered to share what she had or help anyone else. All she cared about was her own survival. “Other prisoners made cakes, biscuits, pizza and always shared with their cellmates. Amanda ate what they made but never made anything herself”. “She was only comfortable with her lawyer. They were very close.” Angela said Knox never even had an emotional response to letters from her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. “She never seemed excited when a letter came. She never broke her cover.” www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/meredith-kercher-killer-amanda-knox-3100098#ixzz2sCnFHxgh Follow us: @dailymirror on Twitter | DailyMirror on Facebook
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Post by Big Lin on Feb 2, 2014 22:22:18 GMT
Here's another article on the case: guardianlv.com/2014/01/amanda-knox-could-be-sent-back-to-italy-after-guilty-verdict/Amanda Knox Could Be Sent Back to Italy After Guilty Verdict Added by Michael Smith on January 30, 2014. Amanda Knox Could Be Sent Back to Italy After Guilty Verdict On Thursday, in Florence, Italy an appeals court found Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend guilty of murdering British girl Meredith Kercher in 2007; Knox, who lives in the U.S. could be sent back to Italy after the guilty verdict was reached. The 26 year-old student and her ex boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito had both been convicted of the murder, which was then overturned in 2011. Both Raffaele and Amanda had served a total of four years in prison after their 2009 conviction and both were released after the 2011 retrial where they were acquitted. This acquittal was then overruled by the Italian Supreme Court in 2013 which meant the case was submitted once again for retrial. Their trial and conviction followed the murder of Meredith Kercher during an alleged sex and drugs party that went wrong. Originally there were a total of four suspects, one of which was Knox’s boss who was cleared before the case came to trial. A third suspect was tried and convicted in 2008 of sexually assaulting and murdering Kercher. Rudy Guede had opted for a “fast track” trial and he is currently serving out his sentence in prison. Initial reports from the U.S. State Department said that Knox would most likely not be extradited as by the American legal system, what the Italian court has done is considered Double Jeopardy; being tried for the same crime twice after having been acquitted of the charges in court. It now appears that Amanda Knox could be sent back to Italy after the retrial returned a verdict of guilty. The Seattle resident has a large number of supporters who believe that she was convicted in a miscarriage of justice. It has been pointed out, by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, that if Amanda were unattractive it is doubtful that she would have such a large following of those who think that she is innocent. Another law academic has lent his expertise on the issue; Julian Ku a transnational law instructor at Hofstra University, has said that many of Knox’s supporters have forgotten that out of the two, Sollecito and Amanda, she was convicted first. Amanda’s Lawyer, Carlo Dalla Vedova, revealed that he contacted his client after the verdict was reached. Vedova said that he told Knox not only had the Florence court reinstated the guilty verdict; they also increased the original sentences. When Amanda was convicted in 2009, the sentence was 26 years in prison, the recent court finding of guilty actually increased the time to be served to 28 and a half years. In a released statement from Knox, who currently resides in Seattle, she revealed that she was sad and “frightened.” The statement also revealed that she felt the new conviction was overzealous and based on “narrow-minded” investigation by the prosecutor’s team. She finished the statement by saying that she was disappointed by the verdict and that she had expected much more of a fair result from the “Italian justice system.” Vedova confirmed that his client was “petrified” at the verdict. Her former boyfriend and co-defendant Sollecito has been said to be “stunned” by this new turn of events. His lawyer has said that there is not a “shred of proof,” and that they would be appealing the latest verdict. After initially stating that Knox would most likely not be extradited, the U.S. State Department have done an about face and revealed that if Italy request an extradition of Amanda that they will most likely comply. Politically speaking, it would make sense. The U.S. asks for more extraditions than any other country in the world. Apart from the political aspects of the issue, a State Department source stated that there was an extradition treaty between the two countries. The presence of this treaty alone means that Amanda Knox could be sent back to Italy after the recent guilty verdict to serve out her sentence. The same source refused to speak about Thursday’s trial and the final guilty verdict. By Michael Smith
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