Comments | ontd_political: Amanda Knox freed, cleared of murder

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Amanda Knox freed, cleared of murder

Oct 03, 2011 16:27

PERUGIA, Italy - An Italian appeals court threw out Amanda Knox's murder conviction Monday and ordered the young American freed after nearly four years in prison for the death of her British roommate.

Knox collapsed in tears after the verdict overturning her 2009 conviction was read out. Her co-defendant, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, also was ( Read more... )

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fimh October 3 2011, 23:00:21 UTC

correct choice imo

stangerine88 October 3 2011, 23:23:08 UTC

Everything I know about this case I learned from some sort of 20/20 Special just this weekend. Granted, it might be biased but the legal system used here scares the crap out of me though, tbh.

stangerine88 October 3 2011, 23:24:15 UTC

*Granted it might have BEEN biased (the show)

Never type with one hand while trying to eat M&Ms.

grimmerlove October 4 2011, 02:31:28 UTC

I also watched the 20/20 episode about her this weekend. And I am really relieved to hear this verdict.

vanillakokakola October 4 2011, 01:23:01 UTC

reading the evidence (or lack thereof) while following this case has TERRIFIED me because this could literally happen to anyone. she's my same exact age, and as far as i can tell, her only crime is spending the night with her boyfriend.

how did they not get let off when there was no evidence against them? how did they not get let off when THE REAL MURDERER WAS ARRESTED, TRIED, FOUND GUILTY AND SENTENCED?

so scary.

evil_laugher October 4 2011, 02:17:49 UTC

Well, she did get convicted of slander for pinning the crime on some other guy.

fog_dancer October 4 2011, 07:53:59 UTC

In many jurisdictions (and afaik, Italy is in this group) you can be charged with a crime you were an acessory to, even though someone else was the prime offender.

A while ago, I read a (third party) translation of the evidence and circumstances of the crime. A lot of the things that I saw mentioned in the press were actually mentioned in more detail. Like the window that was supposedly broken into, but which (upon closer examination)was probably opened from the inside. Etc etc It left me with the conviction that the murder could not have been done by one person alone.

I am glad that Knox was freed because the prosecutors were behaving irresponsibly (and freaking nuts at times) and she could not be proven guilty without a doubt. However, I do not think that she was completely innocent.
In dubio pro reo. We will never know exactly what happened.

etherealtsuki October 4 2011, 14:41:26 UTC

Like the window that was supposedly broken into, but which (upon closer examination)was probably opened from the inside. Etc etc It left me with the conviction that the murder could not have been done by one person alone.

Can you tell me more about this? I dunno, I don't see how the killer couldn't do it himself (especially when he did rob Kercher) and it had to be someone else did it and Wiki is not giving me any links to it.

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hazel_belle October 4 2011, 01:37:38 UTC

This is something good to hear, good for her. I have been following this on and off, and it always appeared that everything was stacked against her throughout the entire thing.

And like vanillakokakola said, "how did they not get let off when THE REAL MURDERER WAS ARRESTED, TRIED, FOUND GUILTY AND SENTENCED? " which is something I am still not sure about to be honest.

aella_irene October 4 2011, 04:53:40 UTC

Well, they were convicted of doing it with him. And they did do really stupid things like lying to the police and pinning it on someone else.

etherealtsuki October 4 2011, 14:37:10 UTC

I dunno if they were lying as much as intimidated into saying something. Those initial interrogations were cited that the police messed up on a lot of stuff like not reading her rights or having a lawyer for her in the room.

vanillakokakola October 4 2011, 15:05:42 UTC

that's what i was wondering when i was reading about the slander charge. especially after reading a) about the fact that they interrogated her for 10+ hours a day, and may have denied her water and the use of the bathroom, and b) the rest of the shady as shit ways that they handled this case.

bestdaywelived October 4 2011, 02:45:43 UTC

I'm really, really excited about this. I've been following it closely, and honestly, I was terrified that she'd be stuck in prison until she turned 50. Good. Now she can try and move on with her life. 4 years in prison for a crime that she didn't even commit.

I'm shocked by the amount of people who found her guilty. Like, come on people .. the evidence against Casey Anthony was more excessive and more damning.

vanillakokakola October 4 2011, 03:57:12 UTC

well, i think the knowledge base of those people is best summarized by the fact that a lot of them were saying that Meredith Kercher's family will never get justice now.

like, it probably takes reading the first 5 paragraphs of any article about this to find out that the real killer is already in jail. if they can't even read that much about the case and still want to damn her for her non-existent guilt... idk.

sarahsayssoo October 4 2011, 09:53:41 UTC

the evidence we have seen in the states has been presented very very differently than it was presented in the UK. huge spin on both sides of the atlantic

the_gabih October 4 2011, 10:10:51 UTC

This. The UK press have been slanting their coverage to make it seem like all three of those tried for the murder were guilty just as much as the US has been doing the opposite, to the point where I honestly can't tell what's true or not any more.