Amanda Knox is Free

[longearedfriend]

I have a strong feeling that she was part of the killing too

changing a story multiple times and defamation supports the feeling

but hey, we're human

sex and violence is just part of who we are (maybe)

 

[wrongwrong]

you mean the bra clasp that they found being kicked around on the bedroom floor 45 or so days after the murder?
how did they manage to miss that for so long? - not exactly microscopic is it...

Nope it certainly ain't microscopic VG... but it still had his DNA on it 45 days after... you see that's all the acquittal was based on their standards not on a par with others etc... the minute it was in the press about how the DNA was collected etc.. you probably knew like I did they would be freed at some point... I remember seeing a woman collecting a hair sample whilst her hair was not tied up etc... a field day for any defence were DNA is crucial...

 

[Hermanthegerman]

If the trial was in Rhome/Texas and not in Rom/Italy and the slaughter had to do with marihuana, than she were waiting for old sparky.

 

[JJScorpio]

I know if I had no part in anything I wouldn't make up a story naming someone I knew wasn't involved. That in itself is suspicious. When someone lies there's usually a reason behind it.

On top of that lie, her boyfriend couldn't remember being with her the night of the murder as she claimed. So I think it's safe to say she was hiding something, what exactly no one but her and the others know. I believe at a minimum she was present at the house during the murder, but I don't think she helped in the killing.

 

[VonBudí]

could op or a mod add a guilty or innocent pole to this thread? Would be interesting.

 

[RAGGA MON]

would still love to bang her!

 

[dagnabit]

knox/anthony threesome?

yes please...

 

[Darkstarlive]

I know if I had no part in anything I wouldn't make up a story naming someone I knew wasn't involved. That in itself is suspicious. When someone lies there's usually a reason behind it.

On top of that lie, her boyfriend couldn't remember being with her the night of the murder as she claimed. So I think it's safe to say she was hiding something, what exactly no one but her and the others know. I believe at a minimum she was present at the house during the murder, but I don't think she helped in the killing.

That what everyone says " I would never..... but once you are being interrorgated for hours upon hours you are mentally broken down and scared shitless to the point you will say pretty much anything to remove yourself from the situation....you tell them what they want to hear to make them stop. Thats the whole point of these interrorgations to brake you down and make you commit to something you didn't do.
This prosecutor leaked information to the gossip rags setting up this girl with all his lies, demonizing her.
CNN ran a piece about this prosecutor and in the mid 90's He used the same tactics on an american writer and Italian juornalist who wrote a book about a serial killer in Florence, who still hasn't been caught, He interrorgated these guys for hours, telling them they were guilty and he had proof, asking them to imagine/speculate how the crime was comitted. These are the same tactics used on Amanda Knox.
I believe this girl is totally, unequivocally innocent.

Thas all I'm saying.
Peace..

 

[Hammerhead]

The chief prosecutor has been convicted of abuse of office what does that tell ya

 

[In~Plain~Site]

That what everyone says " I would never.....

Comparatively speaking, probably equivalent to water-boarding in her world.

 

[JayTrinity]

We pulled our Italy vacation plan (Renting a house for 2 months in Italy)
It sounds like keystone cops!

What bad publicity! If someone as vanilla as a girl with a 4.0 GPA can get jail tortured to confess then what would they do to a long hair happy like me? I dont even have as nice clothing as she must have and im not as pretty as she is...

Italian Vacation any one?

 

[NEW ENGLAND]

Waiting on the Amanda Knox sex tape to be released,staring Tony,Pauly,christopher and uncle Junior.Ha Ha Ha!

 

[JJScorpio]

If I recall she came right out with the story of spending the night with the boyfirend. And when he didn't cooberate it, that's what got her drilled. I think she then came out with the story of the one guy killing her while she covered her ears. If you have nothing to hide, and you're in a foreign Country, what is the reason to be deceptive? If I had to guess I'd say maybe the dude still in prison may have supplied Knox with cocaine and she was in turn going to "fix him up" with the room mate, who wasn't into it so he was drugged up killed her. Who knows........

It was wrong for them to interogate her the way they did. But would it have happened had she just told the truth? We don't understand how lucky we are in the US when it comes to police interrogations. And a lot of Countries are a lot worse than Italy.

That what everyone says " I would never..... but once you are being interrorgated for hours upon hours you are mentally broken down and scared shitless to the point you will say pretty much anything to remove yourself from the situation....you tell them what they want to hear to make them stop. Thats the whole point of these interrorgations to brake you down and make you commit to something you didn't do.
This prosecutor leaked information to the gossip rags setting up this girl with all his lies, demonizing her.
CNN ran a piece about this prosecutor and in the mid 90's He used the same tactics on an american writer and Italian juornalist who wrote a book about a serial killer in Florence, who still hasn't been caught, He interrorgated these guys for hours, telling them they were guilty and he had proof, asking them to imagine/speculate how the crime was comitted. These are the same tactics used on Amanda Knox.
I believe this girl is totally, unequivocally innocent.

Thas all I'm saying.
Peace..

 

[MJBadger]

Originally Posted by MJBadger
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--
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Prove it--

Just a gut feeling thats usually right ,
Just because the court has released her does not mean she is innocent , we all remember the OJ fiasco as has already been mentioned & the same goes for the innocent police officers that battered Rodney King with their batons , sorry i meant arrested the gentleman with dignity . The Italian judicial system is now being slagged off for the fiasco they have created from the start of this case & rightly so but it won`t matter a toss .

she changed her story several times (i hear there are at least 3 different versions) , She tried to frame another man & was prosecuted for that . She acted real creepy when it all kicked off & unlike a lot of posters on this thread i would`nt bend it over a barrel & shag it .


The financial hardships her family have been left with will soon be a forgotten thing when the book & film come out , & we all know that books & films are 100% true


My thoughts go out to the Kercher family

 

[longearedfriend]

yeah police are pretty strict in italy

and pickpockets.. man

be very careful if ever you go (my experience being in rome)

they can be alone or up to 6, some HUGE

and they frisk you,

a buddy who was with me had it done to him on the subway, he realized what happened before it was too late, he had his passport and everything there

when my bud brought him out on it
he started getting really agressive

people carry their backpacks the other way around on their stomachs

 

[StRa]

police sucks everywhere!!

@jaytrinity......at least we don't have death penalty!!!!!and I've long hair too....ahahhaha

BTW I don't understand why people are so intrigued and interested by these morbid stories....

I would like to see the same interest for the poor growers arrested and sometimes killed by police!!!

http://www.encod.org/info/ITA-CANNABIS-GROWER-KILLED-IN.html

peace

 

[VerdantGreen]

rome is like any capital city with pickpockets and hustlers...

italy on the whole is beautiful with fantastic people, food, countryside and a great slow pace of life. my favorite country in europe to visit.

VG

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

based on the food I think I was Italian in another life

 

[wrongwrong]

yeah police are pretty strict in italy

and pickpockets.. man

be very careful if ever you go (my experience being in rome)

they can be alone or up to 6, some HUGE

and they frisk you,

a buddy who was with me had it done to him on the subway, he realized what happened before it was too late, he had his passport and everything there

when my bud brought him out on it
he started getting really agressive

people carry their backpacks the other way around on their stomachs

Italy is no worse than anywhere else... Rome is like any other capital city.. .full of problems.. you have the gangs from the north and the south all vying for a bit of action... I had more trouble in Baltimore than I ever did in Italy... hell its not like you get the death penalty in the states even if not guilty is it!....

My thoughts go out to the Kercher family

Shame Amanda left it for her lawers to mention the Kerchers... and she is still to say sorry to Patrick!!!

 

[SuperConductor]

Still can't believe otherwise sane people are still buying this 'evil foreign witch satanic sex game' bollox. The prosecutor also falsely accused a bunch of Italian celebs and politicians of being involved in a satanic baby murdering cabal (these things don't exist in real life) and at the time of the Kercher case was fighting for his job and needed a big case to save it. Enter Amanda Knox...

Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher and the media

The Italian media, cowed, lazy and compliant, allowed a bullying prosecutor to frame Knox and Sollecito for the Kercher murder

As an American journalist covering the Knox case for 10 months in Italy, I was surprised by a number of things. I arrived assuming Knox was guilty, but within a month realised that most of what I'd been reading about – how she and her boyfriend were holding a mop and bucket at the door when the cops arrived, how her boyfriend googled "bleach", how her footprints were in blood, how her blood was "mixed" with Meredith's in the bathroom they shared, and how the authorities had proof that a break-in had been "staged" – had no basis in fact. Not only was it not in the record, authorities couldn't confirm it either.

What I found most surprising, though, was the way the journalists I worked with seemed hardly bothered by the problems with the case. And while everyone was focused on Amanda Knox, the "star" of the horrid murder theory, no one was doing journalistic due diligence into the background and criminal history of Rudy Guede. He had been picked up in Milan the weekend before the murder having broken into a nursery school, and was found carrying items stolen from a Perugia law office that had been burgled the weekend before that. I interviewed the cops who arrested him, the nursery school owner who walked in on him in her office, his adoptive sister, his teachers, his father, his aunt and uncle and a party buddy who had spent night after night with him during the summer before the crime. The picture I was able to pull together, which I describe in my book, is one of a deeply troubled young man whose life story could have been written by Charles Dickens, crossed maybe with a little Stephen King.

Yet, the pack of reporters on this story chose never to do the moderate work it took to understand the nature of the man who has never denied being in the room while Meredith Kercher bled to death. But I learned that journalists in Italy work differently than we do in the US.

Perhaps the greatest single systemic inhibition on the Italian press – and on any journalist operating in Italy – has been the pervasiveness of the mafia in economic and political life. Any journalist working in Italy was aware of the fate of an intrepid young writer named Roberto Saviano, who wrote a scathing and revealing memoir of life among the Camorra clans in Naples. The gangsters issued a mafia version of a fatwa on Saviano. In 2009, he was hiding out in safe houses under constant police guard, in fear for his life. His girlfriend had dumped him, and he couldn't practice his craft, let alone go out dancing in Rome or eat at a restaurant. Though he was only in his early thirties, his existence as a free young man was effectively over.

Foreign journalists posted to Rome have even less incentive to get too nosy. The Roman beat is luxurious and amusing – too much fun to risk by violating the national journalistic norm. When Meredith Kercher was murdered, there was little incentive for middle-class, middle-aged professional journalists enjoying Italy's lifestyle charms to shine too much light into dark corners. Those who might have, like Saviano, knew they could find themselves hiding behind armed men, exiled back to their cold countries of origin, or getting plastic surgery and new names.

The result? Investigative journalism as practised in countries like the United Kingdom and United States simply does not exist in Italy. That function is left to the judiciary, although after decades of assassinations, failed trials and slow alterations to the constitution, it has become less, not more, transparent.

In the Kercher case, a powerful deterrent example was already in place. Giuliano Mignini, the Perugia prosecutor who led the investigation and original prosecution of the Kercher case, had recently plucked Mario Spezi, a Florentine newspaper crime reporter, out of his house and thrown him into solitary confinement for weeks after Spezi's investigation into the Monster of Florence case seemed to be deviating from the prosecutorial line. Mignini had also threatened an American novelist, Douglas Preston, in the same case, causing him to flee Italy, never to return. In the months after Meredith Kercher's murder, Perugia police also hauled in a local reporter, Il Giornale dell'Umbria's Francesca Bene, after she found witnesses with stories that cast doubt on the official theory in the Kercher case. Mignini also ordered a house search on a female Rome-based reporter for Mediaset, who had raised questions about the Kercher case early on. She never covered the case again.

The police narrative was challenged by the defence during the original trial. Lawyers for Knox made clear that there were problems with the DNA evidence, and that the witnesses – a homeless drug addict who claimed he saw Knox and her boyfriend hovering near the house around the time of the murder, and an elderly woman with mental health problems who said she heard screams – were untrustworthy. But only during the appeal did the judge bring in independent scientists to confirm that the material evidence was contaminated and useless. And only then was the untrustworthiness of those witness given serious consideration. The second, closer look at the police case proved it to be built of straw, and it fell apart. But if the Italian media had been doing a better job and, instead of being compliant and cowed, had questioned Mignini's narrative, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito might never have been convicted in the first place.