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Amanda Knox Case: Italian Court Overturns Murder Conviction
WWW.NBCNEWS.COM ^ | 3/27/2015

Posted on 03/27/2015 2:52:26 PM PDT by CaptainK

The highest court in Italy on Friday has overturned the murder convictions of Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend in the sensational 2007 stabbing death of her British roommate.

The ruling was the latest turn in an odyssey of international justice for Knox, who spent four years in an Italian jail after the killing. She has returned to the United States and vowed not to return to Italy.

She and the ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted in 2009, then acquitted and freed in 2011. An appeals court overturned the acquittals and ordered a new trial, and they were convicted again last year. Knox was sentenced in absentia to 25 years in prison. Sollecito was sentenced to 28 1/2 years.

Knox and Sollecito were arrested after the roommate, Meredith Kercher, was found dead in a pool of blood in their apartment in the university town of Perugia, as many as 40 knife wounds over her half-naked body.

Prosecutors argued that Kercher was killed as part of a sex game. Knox and Sollecito said they were alone together on the night in question, watching a movie, smoking pot and having sex.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amandaknox; italy; knox; murder
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1 posted on 03/27/2015 2:52:26 PM PDT by CaptainK
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To: CaptainK

It was the right call.


2 posted on 03/27/2015 2:52:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: CaptainK

She’s free, as is her boyfriend. Forever.


3 posted on 03/27/2015 2:52:59 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK

Finally


4 posted on 03/27/2015 2:53:21 PM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: CaptainK

beat me too it. I’ll ask the mods to delete my thread.


5 posted on 03/27/2015 2:54:20 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016 - If you have a 22-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good.)
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To: CaptainK
Prosecutors argued that Kercher was killed as part of a sex game

So.....she lost...right?

6 posted on 03/27/2015 2:54:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
"Prosecutors argued that Kercher was killed as part of a sex game"
So.....she lost...right?

Kercher's dead, the man who did it is in prison, and Knox and her former boyfriend are free.

7 posted on 03/27/2015 2:58:26 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016 - If you have a 22-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good.)
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To: CaptainK

We were thinking not guilty all along.


8 posted on 03/27/2015 2:59:16 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: CedarDave

I kept checking as I was posting to see if anyone had put a thread up.


9 posted on 03/27/2015 3:03:26 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: BenLurkin
Why Amanda Knox is completely innocent and the Italian justice system is utterly insane
10 posted on 03/27/2015 3:06:00 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016 - If you have a 22-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good.)
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To: CaptainK
I kept checking as I was posting to see if anyone had put a thread up.

Same here. Mine went up within seconds of yours. The mods just deleted mine at my request.

11 posted on 03/27/2015 3:08:02 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016 - If you have a 22-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good.)
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To: CaptainK

I’d say Italy owes her about a million dollars for putting her through this cra*.


12 posted on 03/27/2015 3:09:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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What a backward and worthless country where the justice system can just keep retrying you until it gets the verdict it wants.


13 posted on 03/27/2015 3:10:41 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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What a backward and worthless country where the justice system can just keep retrying you until it gets the verdict it wants.

That would be Holders' dream come true.

14 posted on 03/27/2015 3:13:34 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I Agree.

Therefore, in protest of the horrible Italian legal system, I will refrain from buying Ferraris, Lamboghinis, Maseratis, Alfas, Fiats, etc.

I am sure my boycott will cripple the Italian economy.

/s


15 posted on 03/27/2015 3:14:28 PM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: Sacajaweau
Italy owes her about a million dollars

OK. Although she ought to split it with George Zimmerman.

16 posted on 03/27/2015 3:16:16 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( Obama told us what he'd do, and did it. How about your Republican Representative?)
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To: dfwgator
The entire thing was basically manufactured for the drama and media hype. Sadly a young woman was caught in that trap.

Here she was when she first returned to her home after months in jail and overseas....I felt plenty bad for her then...but glad she was home.


17 posted on 03/27/2015 3:16:38 PM PDT by caww
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To: CaptainK

So is this the end of it or can some prosecutor reopen the case yet again?


18 posted on 03/27/2015 3:17:36 PM PDT by piytar (If you don't know what the doctrines of taqiyya and abrogation are, you are a fool!)
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To: CaptainK

I imagine when this young lady hears a conversation in Italian she has, at best, a mixed reaction of romantic nostalgia, and extreme dread. She became fluent in the language during incarceration. Many times, the brain will morph in order to adapt and make sense of it’s immediate environment.


19 posted on 03/27/2015 3:18:41 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: dfwgator; clintonh8r; Genoa; CaptainK; CedarDave
I can't understand why normally conservative Freepers are going all radical lefty on this case.

Just because she is from the U.S. and she killed a British person is not a conservative reason to support someone.

This woman is young and she's a manipulative sociopath. She will kill AGAIN. Next time it will likely be a U.S> citizen. I hope it's not any of our loved ones.

She learned she can tell law enforcement nothing but lies, kill, manipulative and get away without punishment.

20 posted on 03/27/2015 3:20:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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