Do Amanda Knox and her (x) boyfriend go free?

Yep, as far as I can tell, Amanda will be out.

It appears from what I’ve read that the Italian justice system is so bad that this is “normal” there. It’s normal to be locked away for years, then go to appeal and get out.

The first trial, IMO, was a joke. Italy felt they had to lock someone up for the crime, so they picked the people that were still alive.

If there is any justice, she will.

I thought the whole thing reeked from the beginning. I sure hope so.

Troy Davis didn’t get off. Let’s not get too high and mighty about crappy “Italian” investigations and miscarriages of justice. Just sayin”

I really hope so,

Where are you getting your facts about these evidence from? I would just like to know the sources.

@raven860 Wikipedia has a bunch of sources cited, so mostly from there.

When you read the news articles they seem to “gloss” over all of the evidence, and just try to talk about what type of person Knox is. It’s ridiculous. How can you “cover” a story and not even talk about the evidence?

If I allowed myself to partake of something like that, I would march MYSELF to the prison and refuse to leave. How do people live with themselves? How do they attempt to in any way go about a normal life even if they do get out? I would never be able to face another person again as long as I lived so really, what would the difference be? Jail or not?

Like If I were Casey Anthony’s mother… I would beat the shit out of myself and then shoot myself in the face. No one would ever have a chance to get there first.

@GabrielsLamb I don’t follow what you’re saying

@tedd I’m saying that if she is guilty, and she get’s off and they let her go, how could someone knowing that they participated in such a heinous crime, live with themselves anyway on a day to day basis and not feel that prison was not only deserved, but a good idea?

@GabrielsLamb Ahh I see what you mean. But given everything I’m reading about the evidence, there’s no possible way she is guilty.

@tedd If her actions or words in any way acted to take life from another human being, even if not directly related she is still guilty. Especially if she knew and didn’t do anything about it to stop it.

@GabrielsLamb The evidence as I’ve seen it, shows she was in no way involved. They found no trace of her DNA in the room where the crime took place (no fluids, hair, skin flakes, anything), which if you know anything about sexual crimes… that is pretty much impossible for her to have had a hand in it.

The prosecution attempted to tie her to it by claiming that they found Knox’s and the victims DNA on a kitchen knife at her boyfriends apartment (where Knox and her bf claimed to have been the whole night). They hypothesized that this was the knife used to stab the victim, and slit her throat. The catch is it turns out the victims DNA was not on the knife at all, the method used to test it for DNA was incredibly faulty and isn’t even recognized by international law. Furthermore, a forensic expert testified that the knife could not possibly have been used to inflict any of the wounds on the victims body (the blade was way off).

The “admission” given by Knox was given after a 14 hour “interrogation” that would qualify as torture in the US. She was denied food, water, sleep, bathroom breaks, lawyer (even though the prosecutor was there), and was allegedly beaten until finally… 14 hours in, she changed her story and gave the police a “vivid” and shaky story about her having seen her employer go into the victims room with the victim and hearing noises from the room that led her to believe he may have killed her. Less than 24 hours later she recanted the entire story, and listed the above reasons (the whole torture thing) as the cause of the story. She has maintained the same story since that point.

And missing from the whole thing, evidence from the other trial on the murder. Knox and her BF opted to be trialed together in a regular trial, but another suspect (a drifter named Guede) opted for a “speedy” trial under Italian law. Under the law the suspect waives his right to have the trial be opened to the public and the media, and they speed the entire process (his trial was about 3 months total). In exchange, guilty parties are given more lenient sentences. Guede was found guilty of murder because: His DNA was found in the victim, on the victim, and all around her room. He was found carrying the murder weapon, a knife that was capable of inflicting the wounds and had the victims DNA on it (determined by an accepted method). None of the evidence from his trial was allowed in the original Knox trial.

This wouldn’t have made it to trial in a US court, and the prosecutor would be disbarred.

(oh btw, the prosecutor is now convicted of lying about evidence and sending innocent people to prison in a serial-murder case in Milan.. where he went so far as to claim there was some kind of satanic cult committing ritual sacrifices and orgies…. sound familiar at all?)

This wouldn’t have made it to trial in a US court, and the prosecutor would be disbarred.

Precisely @tedd…we’d have shredded the investigators to bits here. They all trapsed through the entire apartment, besides everything ^ you listed ablove.

Sounds like there’ll be a verdict today or tomorrow.

@tedd Wow… thanks for the info, I did not know that! I was under the assumption that she was found guilty.

@GabrielsLamb She was found guilty. That is why she is under the appeals process now.

They fast tracked these original convictions. You can read more of the timeline here

FREED

Yay! (Now if we could only get Troy Davis back.)

Very happy for her.

@SpatzieLover Thanks hon, I’m a little slow… That’s why I stay out of the general section… LOL I never read… *I’m working on it though.