Amanda Knox is Free

[oldpink]

Yeah, imagine getting out of jail and finding out you're hated for more reasons than imposed guilt. Poor girl, she'll prolly move back to Europe.

Uh, scratch Europe. Folks are already saying they 'don't know' yet making OJ comparisons. Back to poor girl status for Amanda.

The judge upheld Miss Knox's conviction for slander after she accused bar owner Patrick Diya Lumumba of carrying out the killing. He set the sentence at three years, time that Miss Knox has already served.

same as OJ claimed it was someone else, only thing the appeal proved was that the DNA evidence was dodgy
there was other evidence to suggest Knox was involved including her constantly changing her story and pointing finger at innocent people

in my book you don't stitch people up esp if you know they had no part in the said crime

as for comparing the Italian justice systen to the good ol US of A's thats what my OJ comment was about
he bought a verdict even though everyone knew he was guilty as as hell

 

[longearedfriend]

tough luck, i'm all out of compassion at the moment

keep in mind I am horribly sick at the moment but where was my crowd of compassion when I went through numerous torments ?

a pretty lady has the upper hand in our western societies
especially a wealthy one

i'm all for justice but... this is not my battle

as for :

Parents of European educated kids aren't necessarily rich. Some just invest far more into their kids' educations.

I'm worried this will follow her for the rest of her life. You've always got people who will point the finger of guilt and some of those won't care to know the facts of the case.

She's already being discounted as a rich bitch but I'm just glad she's free. Here's to hoping no appeals say otherwise.

sure, invest in your education,
I see it like med students in canada, they get their degree and fuck off to the states
they are very low on doctors there

I want another 100k, fuck the rest of these people
i'm mooching all your services/benefits and then i'm fucking off

and also... I have no idea what the story is
I don't know what happened

who am I to say she killed or not.. I am not pronoucing myself on that
people are getting raped everyday and we don't hear much of it

don't get me wrong
I don't wish bad on her or anyone

but I keep my compassion for those who I feel really deserve it

little princesses

no thank you

women themselves are very wary of women

whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger
welcome to the jungle

 

[Hammerhead]

big diff in my book we all know OJ was guilty. I dont think Amanda is guilty she was railroaded plain and simple. Having money did not help her for the first 4 years she was in prison for a crime she did not commit. She is not Casey Anthony

 

[longearedfriend]

 

[Hammerhead]

?? thats Hayden P

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

same as OJ claimed it was someone else, only thing the appeal proved was that the DNA evidence was dodgy
there was other evidence to suggest Knox was involved including her constantly changing her story and pointing finger at innocent people

in my book you don't stitch people up esp if you know they had no part in the said crime

as for comparing the Italian justice systen to the good ol US of A's thats what my OJ comment was about
he bought a verdict even though everyone knew he was guilty as as hell

The OJ case always vexed me because I have to be convinced within reasonable doubt before I sign on to public opinion. I'm 99% of the assumption he's guilty but how does a crime scene that violent leave nothing but circumstantial evidence?

That 1% doesn't suggest he's innocent but it's still a nagging aspect.

Maybe our news gets watered down as it crosses the pond but I thought the DNA that was originally associated with one or both defendants turned out to be neither.

Many of the comments I've read touch on human nature and after the fact. I've never ratted on another with leo but I've had a few scrapes where the suspect was mentioned. Moral lapse? Possibly. But it didn't change the circumstances of what actually happened.

Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware somebody was implicated in slanderous ways. How did Knox slander unless they court proved she didn't actually believe what she said? Didn't Knox blame the same person that implicated Knox and her boyfriend?

Sorry I'm not more aware of the facts.

 

[h^2 O]

well somebody strangled that Kercher girl and slashed her throat. I guess it was "IT" or something. Vampire would be my first guess. I'll let myself out.

 

[oldpink]

little bit of background

Amanda Knox told the Italian authorities she had no idea what had happened but her story would change, and change yet again, as physical evidence: bloody prints, DNA and cell phone records suggested to authorities a wild party that involved group sex and drugs, a wild party that ended in unimaginable horror.

According to Amanda’s story, she had returned home to find a broken window, an unlocked door and an apartment in total disarray. Meredith’s bedroom door was locked and with the messy condition of the apartment, according to Amanda, she called the police.

The electrifying story went international when Italian investigators -based on early forensic evidence - theorized that Meredith had been killed because she refused to play along in a group sex game. After conducting a thorough investigation, the Italian police arrested Amanda and her boyfriend

As described by an investigating judge, it appeared that the young English woman died at the hands of her friends. That she - the victim -refused to play along in their high-voltage game of drugs and group sex and as a consequence was tortured, sexually assaulted, stabbed and left to die.

Investigators acting on tips by locals who knew Amanda and her “over the top” partying lifestyle, pieced together a crime scene that included not only Amanda and her boyfriend, but Amanda’s boss at “Le Chic”, a Congolese named Patrick Lumumba. Patrick Lumumba owned “Le Chic” and according to Amanda, she introduced him to Meredith. Also implemented in the murder was Rudy Guede, a street hustler who frequented “Le Chic”.

As Amanda’s story began to unravel, police investigators concluded that Amanda was trying to frame Patrick Lumumba for Meredith’s murder. After being held for over two weeks, Patrick Lumumba was released without charge.

Although Amanda’s ever changing story as to what actually happened that horrific night on November 1, 2007 sealed her fate, it was Patrick Lumumba’s account of sex, drugs and finding Rudy Guede standing over Meredith’s bleeding body with a knife, that completed the police’s picture of a party “gone bad”. Police surmised and concluded that Rudy Guede committed the actual rape and murder, and that Amanda and Raffaele we accomplices in her murder.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

...sure, invest in your education,
I see it like med students in canada, they get their degree and fuck off to the states
they are very low on doctors there

I want another 100k, fuck the rest of these people
i'm mooching all your services/benefits and then i'm fucking off

and also... I have no idea what the story is
I don't know what happened

Sorry to hear you're not feeling well. Get well soon. The fact I'm not reasonably persuaded she's guilty means little. But I don't get the mooch/fuck off part.

 

[In~Plain~Site]

I guess it really is about what you can prove, even in Europe.

little bit of background

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

little bit of background

Yeah, I got most of that prior to the appeal and thanks for posting. The part I didn't get were answers behind the allegations. When the dna didn't implicate these two I wonder whether conjecture is overemphasized.

Not unlike the Florida mother accused of killing her toddler. Little doubt Casey Anthony killed her daughter, even if we'll never know the circumstances. But the prosecution messed up when they over played the motive with so little physical evidence.

At least in the Anthony case, the prosecution rendered it's verdict with the public, not the jury. Judges tend to mitigate potential kerfuffle and the narrative often doesn't. In this case the prosecutors fluffed themselves and the verdict.

 

[igrowone]

i thought i heard echoes of reefer madness in the trial
the depraved beasts smoked hashish, then became savage animals
seemed to be a convenient(and cliche) explanation

 

[Hammerhead]

Some more info this family is not rich in any way. They are so in debt from this railroad they have all mortgaged there homes and maxed out all there CC. They said they dont know what there going to do all that matters is they have there daughter back.

This case was botched from the get go. All of the DNA evidence was contaminated by the police. There district attorney said he was not sure who did it in some interviews. Remember that this girl lived in this house so even if there was DNA witch there was not it would be normal for it to be there.

 

[h^2 O]

i thought i heard echoes of reefer madness in the trial
the depraved beasts smoked hashish, then became savage animals
seemed to be a convenient(and cliche) explanation

The sex fiends compacted with the devil and engaged in an orgy of hashish smoking and lustfull flesh.

Their covenent of sexual deviancy and hashish consumption

 

[187020]

he bought a verdict even though everyone knew he was guilty as as hell

In good ol' USA we buy verdicts at the drive thru now... Going to court is for poor people. Just download the verdict app for iPhone

 

[dagnabit]

Yeah, I got most of that prior to the appeal and thanks for posting. The part I didn't get were answers behind the allegations. When the dna didn't implicate these two I wonder whether conjecture is overemphasized.

Not unlike the Florida mother accused of killing her toddler. Little doubt Casey Anthony killed her daughter, even if we'll never know the circumstances. But the prosecution messed up when they over played the motive with so little physical evidence.

At least in the Anthony case, the prosecution rendered it's verdict with the public, not the jury. Judges tend to mitigate potential kerfuffle and the narrative often doesn't. In this case the prosecutors fluffed themselves and the verdict.

i did not follow the CA case but i caught the prosecution's closings...

it seemed their entire case was "no person would act this way, she must be guilty"

again i didn't watch the whole deal but if i was in that jury box and that was what the prosecutor left me with before deliberation....

it would not have taken long to acquit.

 

[kmk420kali]

She was involved in 1 form or another but that`s the f**ked-up legal system for you . If she was`nt guilty of murder she was guilty of knowing a lot more about the weird things that led to Meridith Kerchers death .

Prove it--

 

[Hammerhead]

There was overwhelming evidence in Casey trial. There was human decomp in her car. She was the last person to use it. She dumped the car next to a dumpster to hide the smell. She did searches on the computer about chloroform. She did not tell anyone her child was missing until her mom confronted her where she was. She lied to about everything possible. There's a lot more.

 

[dagnabit]

like i said i didnt follow....

just saw the closings.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Who cares