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

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

Italian justice system has really failed to cover itself in glory here - not that I'm implying other countries are better, just fucked up differently.

I suppose the best the Italians can say is that at least they didn't execute her...

Nobody is covered in glory here - the prosecution, the judge, the defence, the police, Knox, the Knox family, the pro-Knox media, the anti-Knox media...

as i say, differently fucked up. the whole prosecution story is kinda unlikely when you think about it, and i assume it takes a certain kinda culture to swallow the "she's obv a ho so she must have done it" line

tbh I can see that line working in quite a few countries

eh newspapers hedge like this all the time, by having two stories ready. not an indictment in itself of anything other than the competency of web site staff.

i assume the exciting public grandstanding carried out by judge, defence, prosecution, cops, etc. was what influenced the UK gov to open our courtrooms to TV cameras, give us a chance to experience it first hand

eh newspapers hedge like this all the time, by having two stories ready. not an indictment in itself of anything other than the competency of web site staff.

please be reassured that all of my lols are squarely aimed at the web site staff

Now what? Book deal, millions of dollars for her story/reality show/porn parody until everyone's sick of her?

The first flight out of Italy before the prosecution get their appeal going, surely

yeah, and enough common sense to tone down the victory celebrations in light of the unsolved murder of her former flatmate, please god

re hedging, I get that - it's more the reporting of a bunch of stuff that never happening that's the thing. If the appeal had failed and she'd shrugged, or maybe frowned a little, the story would still have been about her as a sobbing wreck.

Well there's still a guy doing 16 years for the murder xp

I expect her to record a duet with DSK - that other recent innocent victim

Dancing With The Stars 2012, signature move involving a cartwheel across the dance floor?

eh newspapers hedge like this all the time, by having two stories ready. not an indictment in itself of anything other than the competency of web site staff.

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Prosecutors were delighted with the verdict and said that 'justice has been done' although they said on a 'human factor it was sad two young people would be spending years in jail'.

xp w/ IK

oh for some reason i thought Guede had done one

maybe cos him and the other two all having done it makes no sense

wait I thought this person helped killed someone

That Mail article is still live http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044583/Amanda-Knox-verdict-GUILTY-appeal-murder-conviction-rejected.html?ito=feeds-newsxml