Amanda Knox freed, cleared of murder

[anolinde]

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

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[vanillakokakola]

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]

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

[fog_dancer]

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]

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.

[fog_dancer]

I'm not on my computer, or I could look up the link to the motivation report for you (if I still have it).

From what I remember, a stone was thrown from the outside to shatter a window, through which supposedly the murderer got entrance. At first, it was reported that the glass wasn't shattered in a way that would result from a stone throwing, which was not proven. However, what is seldomly mentioned is the statement of the original inhabitant of said room, one of the Italian flatmates of Knox/Kercher. She said that the wooden window covers were very heavy and old and barely moveable. She had left for a few days and remembered clearly shutting those covers. However, the wood covers weren't in place. Somebody took them off.

It's a minor detail and I wouldn't be too bothered by it, but there were quite a few of those things and that makes me wonder what really happened.