Amanda Knox Conviction Overturned by Italy’s Top Court

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  1. Ethereal

    Ethereal Well-Known Member

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    Finally, justice has been done for Knox and Sollecito. Of course, the internet drone army who is convinced of Knox's guilt will never, ever change their position, which is supported by absolutely no solid evidence of any kind, because they are the type of people who base their positions entirely on emotion and almost nothing else. The irresponsible and sensationalist media portrayed her as a demonic sex murderess and audiences ate it up without question. Now they have finally been repudiated by the highest court in Italy, who HAD to come to this decision or face interminable embarrassment for the utter shoddiness and criminality that characterized this sexist persecution of Knox.

    So now she is free for good and has no worries of being thrown in prison for a crime that was so obviously committed by one person acting alone, Rudy Guede, a drifter and thief with a violent past whose DNA was ALL OVER Meredith Kercher's room.

    The Kercher family, despite all evidence and logic to the contrary, still maintains Knox's and Sollecito's guilt. I understand that losing a family member is horrid and traumatic, but it's no excuse for persecuting someone who is so clearly innocent while the guilty party is already in jail!

    Anyway, glad it's over. Justice has been served!
     
  2. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I didn't follow this story as closely as others have, but from what I follow I can tell you that Italy's criminal justice system is jacked up.
     
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    northwinds Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Thank goodness the Italian justice system finally got it right. That prosecutor made the Duke Lacrosse prosecutor look like an amateur. He wanted Amanda to go down from the beginning when it was obvious who did this heinous crime.
     
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    Turtledude Well-Known Member Donor

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    I wonder if she can sue for reparations for all the time she spent in the kangaroo court's prison system? and yes, the proper mope is in prison-Rudy Be Good. The one good thing is that Ms Knox is going to make a heap of jack off of her victimization by the corrupt court of Italy
     
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    Ethereal Well-Known Member

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    Certainly, but it's no more or less jacked up than our system.
     
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    You're not a'kidding! Their justice system of strandling the fence.. 'is she or isn't she?' and stretches it into yrs is mind blowing.....
     
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    at least we have some finality


    I am wondering if in 3 years they change their mind again?
     
  8. Ethereal

    Ethereal Well-Known Member

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    It was clearly a mockery of justice, but the US system has no shortage of those. One state regime is as good as the next to me.
     
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    Justice? She was absolved because of absence of consistent proof, not for certainity of innocence. They couldn't prove her guilt, she has not been proven innocent, that's different!
     
  10. Steve N

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    If she's actually innocent then that's justice.
     
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    IF she is innocent. The prob is, the (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) gave many different versions of the facts, which led the italian judge to suspicion, as that is the usual behaviour of the guilty.
     
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    It's incredibly difficult, almost impossible, to prove that someone did not do something. For example, how would you prove that you've never masturbated to child porn? It's possible that you have done so, but simply did not get caught. So am I to assume that you are guilty of masturbating to child porn simply because you have no way of proving you never did it? That is the kind of absurd standard you are trying to apply to Amanda Knox, whose only "proof" of her innocence consists of the utter absence of any credible evidence which would indicate her guilt. It would be different if there were such evidence that could call into question her innocence in some way, but so such evidence exists, which is about as close to "innocent" as a person can technically get, which is why it's called a PRESUMPTION of innocence, since it is incredibly difficult to prove as much.
     
  13. Ethereal

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    Anyone who has objectively examined the evidence (or the lack thereof) can see that she is obviously innocent. The man who led the prosecution is an evil, corrupt CRIMINAL whose theories were so absurd and unsupportable that they were just aggressively repudiated by the highest court in all of Italy.

    Using sexist terminology like "b*tch" to describe Amanda Knox demonstrates that you are clearly operating from a position of hatred and emotion and not one of objectivity and rationality. But that is typical of the obsessive Knox haters, who often pretend like the other innocent party, Sollecito, does not even exist.

    Nonsense. There are any number of explanations for inconsistent or fallacious stories that do not necessitate an individual's guilt. Your bias is so obvious as to be comical.
     
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    In the case of Amanda we have a girl who wakes use of cocaine and she is a liar ( couldn't tell the truth during the interrogation ). In the judge's head this was like a red alarm.
     
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    Interrogations aren't the best area for truthtelling. The Police first and foremost want a confession out of you, the idea that they're actually wrong is something they don't want to admit, they don't even want to consider it. You're going to be grilled, you're going to be accused of the crime directly in a manner that'll be hard to psychologically refute.

    Not because you're guilty, but because you're on the spot. It's a softer form of the torture used by the Bush Administration to get "confessions" out of the terrorists. Think, how many people would be thrown in prison if all it took was a simple confession at the police station. That's why we have Juries. A job interview is far less grilling for example lol.
     
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    what lies? where was her counsel when se was being interrogated?
     
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    There is the complete interrogation files on internet but it is in italian you know... anyway i don't trust amanda a little bit, even though she was eventually absolved in absence of definitive proof.

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    They allow double jeopardy, they can try you for the same crime over and over and over. The United States don't do that
     
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    Not sure what using cocaine has to do with murdering people, and the interrogation was a shoddy and dishonest farce orchestrated by the CONVICTED CRIMINAL lead prosecutor, Mignini, who spun utterly fantastic, clearly sexist narratives about Amanda Knox being some kind of satanic sex maven who was suddenly and inexplicable overcome with murderous lust one fine evening, despite the fact that she has absolutely no history of any violent crimes, let alone stabbing her roommate in the throat during a drug-fueled orgy.
     
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    " The prosecutor thinks she's an evil b**** just because she's an evil b****? How dare him "
     
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    The prosecutor is a convicted criminal and a lunatic who has a history of corruption and abuse.
     
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    Mignini was actually absolved from the accusations. He was charged of illecit investigation about some police officers and journalists, nothing atrocious anyway.
     
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    Where is your evidence for this?

    More importantly, Amanda Knox was just "absolved" by the highest court in Italy.

    He was charged with abuse of office, and he has a history of corruption and abuse, which you would like to ignore.
     
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