So ILE doesn't have a Meredith Kercher/FoxyKnoxy murder thread yet?

Less armchair investigation, more hot pix of the murderess.

yea one of the 'friends of amanda' ppl also said that she was just responding to a hypothetical, cooperating w/ police ~ what she would have heard if she had been home, etc

This is how the dude in John Grisham's The Innocent Man was convicted, too. Spent 11 years on death row before being exonerated.

To Ned and Ed: I'm not implying that other legal systems are good or better, I'm just saying that very often here in Italy investigations and trials are surrounded by a very thick cloud of ineptitude and plain dumbness.
The Knox-Kercher thing is not the Dreyfus affair but it is a link in a long long chain of truly embarrassing trials: it got international exposure because it involved US and Uk citizens, but there have been at least other four or five recent cases where people have been kept in prison for years and sometimes even condemned on totally nebolous premises.

Also, our judges are not elected but there can be other (very) serious problems: a judicial system where, among many other problems, the defence doesn't have the same rights of the prosecutor and where that same prosecutor is not going to be considered responsible for any of his mistakes (despite a referendum sanctioning his civil liability) doesn't seem that well to me.

Finally Italian legal system is obviously based on the principle reasonable doubt, that's why this sentence is particularly strident.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/11/amanda.knox/index.html?eref=rss_crime

I hope like hell she gets out. Poor kid. I miss her long hair.

any news?

I hope like hell she gets out. Poor kid. I miss her long hair.

― kkvgz, Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:36 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

are you generally chill with murderers?

She's starting her appeal in October (according to CNN) or November (according to the DMail), hopefully (for her) her lawyers will know the actual date.

I hope like hell she gets out.

A bit like Al-Megrahi, difference being we all know for sure he didn't do it

WTF

'Heroes' star cast in Amanda 'Foxy Knoxy' Knox biopic

Maybe they should wait until this isn't being appealed?

maybe it'll be like that jeffrey archer play and the audience will get 2 decide if she's guilty at the end of the film (could be a good social networking gimmick)

An American is in prison abroad. A good looking one too. And white. That's what really counts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO46MFEbzNY&feature=player_embedded

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-neverending-nightmare-of-amanda-knox-20110627?print=true

yeah it is such a nightmare when you murder someone and have to go to the big house

wow i didn't realise you'd witnessed the murder

i mean i'm wary of the tone of Rolling Stone article but if half of its assertions are factual then there's no way you shd be able to get a conviction on those grounds.

What is your story, History Mayne? You've made a couple of those weirdly perfunctory posts.

(this legit question coming from someone who's only read a few of these big articles, all of which seem to convincingly point to some pretty questionable shit about her role in it all)

amanda knox is history mayne's oj

lol

heh. just trolling out on a sunday afternoon is all.

She Got the Questions

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110922-knox-vmed-450p.grid-4x2.jpg

Coming down the home stretch now.

similar issues have been touched on in the death penalty thread and i wanna be tactful but the Kercher family are being dicks about this really

huge dicks! it's okay, you don't have to be tactful

Eh. It's all terribly sad. They're dealing with a tremendous loss and people who have told them everything was one way are now telling them that it was a different way. It's gotta tear them up something bad.

The best thing anyone can hope for is that if Knox is truly innocent, that she'll be freed.

Buongiorno, one the highest-profile lawyers in Italy, attacked media coverage of the trial as sensational, saying it could have affected what witnesses told the court.

And she compared Knox to the voluptuous cartoon character Jessica Rabbit, who protests, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way," in the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

i don't know everything about this case (i read the rolling stone thing + that's about it); it is nice to think that someone went to prison in such a way and wasn't necessarily, inevitably totally destroyed by it

decision expected in a few hours i believe

I just saw her statement to the court - interesting

"I didn't realise how serious life is" is not the best ever explanation for cartwheels in the nick

"It's difficult to speak of forgiveness at this time. Four years is a very long time but on the other hand, it's not and it's still very, very raw," Lyle Kercher told a news conference on Monday afternoon.

don't think anybody's asking them to forgive anybody who committed the murder

wow, she lost the appeal

woah WHAT

she totally didn't but one second ago the guardian liveblog said 'know has lost her appeal'

so yeah she is, they are, free

or 'fee' as the guardian put it, which i guess is at least less embarrassing in the face of having got it way wronger a second earlier

#TeamFoxyKnoxy

The Mail have been saying she lost too http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044583/Amanda-Knox-verdict-GUILTY-appeal-murder-conviction-rejected.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

I suspect that won't stay up long

For clarification, this entry said Knox had lost the appeal, not the appeal on this specific charge. Apologies for this error.

what a confusing clarification

Premature posting by the mail there.

well, she lost the defamation appeal right?

there were two charges, apparently; she got the murder charge overturned but lost the defamation charge where she accused Patrick Lumumba of being the murderer

That Mail link reports her sobbing as it's announced and the enormity of 26 yrs sank in, etc - it's one thing getting it wrong, but blatantly making up the whole story. I'm naive to be shocked I guess.

Best part of the pre-written Mail article: 'Media scum: Journalists, photographers and camera crews flooded the court room during the appeal sessions earlier today ahead of the verdict'

It's like they'd been fantasising about it for ages...

lol mail article still up

hahahahahahaha they've posted the "she's free" article on the homepage but the prefab "she's GUILTY" article hasn't been deleted yet