Dad: Amanda Knox 'running on adrenaline' in Seattle

MSNBC ^ | 10/8/2011 | Staff

[IbJensen]

Video at link.

SEATTLE — Amanda Knox hasn't slept much since arriving back in Seattle after four years in an Italian prison, her father said on Thursday.

"I think she's literally running on adrenaline right now, because she hasn't slept very much — hardly at all. I think she's so joyful to be around her family and kind of reconnect with everybody," Curt Knox to KOMO Radio.

She's taking things one day at a time.

"It is going to take some time before we figure out what that new normal will be," he said.

The 24-year-old former University of Washington student and her family left Italy immediately after an appeals court threw out her conviction in the slaying of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, where both were studying abroad.

Amanda Knox occasionally slips back into speaking Italian, Curt Knox told "Good Morning America" earlier Thursday.

"It has become really almost her first language since she's been in prison so long, but she seems to be moving to English," he said. Advertise | AdChoices

She was overwhelmed by her release from prison and the large number of reporters who awaited her arrival at Sea-Tac Airport on Tuesday. The family has not yet decided on whether to seek counseling for her.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“The prosecutor is currently under investigation for some other malfeasance. He’s a demonstrated slug”

Johnny Sutton’s Italian cousin no doubt. Amanda Knox is about as guilty of murder as Ramos and Campeon.

[ilovesarah2012]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8803077/Amanda-Knox-Guilty-or-innocent-five-reasons-why.html

Seems there is quite a bit of reasonable doubt. I just don’t know what to believe.

[muawiyah]

It's all about the fantasy ~ I don't care to know what Ann thinks about this !

I just re-read her piece and it does not refer to a single piece of sound evidence. The DNA testing was determined to be inconclusive by court employed DNA experts.

The girl also won a case at the italian Supreme court regarding how the police got their Lumumba claim out of her. Seems they were unnecessarily rough ~ always a bad sign, but I am sure I could be just as bad with Ann and she'd claim she was Richard Speck's assistant.

The killer initially claimed he and a buddy did it BTW. I think he probably lied about that. But Fur Shur it was his DNA inside the body, and the knife he used for the killing wasn't found and tested for DNA.

[Danae]

Good lord, she was aquitted, found to be innocent! jeez man.

[microgood]

There was the matter of her DNA on the knife that ended her roommate’s life and Amanda’s association with the scum that surrounded the victim as she died of multiple knife wounds.

This DNA evidence was completely refuted during the second trial.

What was Amanda doing at the scene? Paring her toe nails?

She lived there. Even if you believe the DNA evidence, it does not put her at the scene at any given time.

[Agamemnon]

As quoted from from Huffington Post, 10/8/2011:

ROME — One of the jurors who overturned Amanda Knox's murder conviction said Friday he was never convinced by the "conjecture" of the prosecution's case and that he believed the U.S. student and her co-defendant simply didn't kill her British roommate.

Mauro Chialli was one of eight jurors who on Monday ordered Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito freed after acquitting them of charges they sexually assaulted and murdered Meredith Kercher in 2007. Knox returned home to Seattle on Tuesday, and Sollecito to his home in southern Italy.

In an interview Friday with Italy's state-run RAI television, Chialli said he had spent a lot of time during the 10-month appeals trial reading the faces of Knox and Sollecito and determined they were telling the truth in insisting on their innocence.

"I saw the faces of these two kids, and they couldn't bluff. They didn't bluff. My point of view is that these kids weren't guilty. They weren't there," he said

I am somewhat amused that you continue your morbid transfixation with this case, believing for whatever reason that you do that you know so much more than someone who was on the jury who actually looked at and heard the evidence.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Sounds more like she is picking up the life pattern that got her into such trouble in the first place.

The thing about acquittals . . . it is sometimes pretty apparent whether that verdict was correct within a short time of their release.

[mkjessup]

“PFFFFFT”

[ClearCase_guy]

I wonder if she’s killed anyone new yet.

"The day ain't over yet." -- Curly

[abigkahuna]

Who’s Justin Beiber and why should I care? Didn’t he used to play bass with Johnny Winter for about three months back in ‘68?

[businessprofessor]

This juror does not inspire much confidence in the finding of the appeals court. This juror is deluded if he believes that he can discern truth by reading facial expressions. Evidence is strong that even experienced law enforcement officers are not very good at discerning truth from interviews with suspects.

I am confident that the report issued by the appeals court will have more substance than this juror’s statement. The facial expressions of defendants are not reliable evidence. The appeals court report will need to be based on evidence presented at the trial to be persuasive to the higher court.

[trumandogz]

More like running on crystal meth.

[cbvanb]

Any more, I tend to NOT believe Coulter on anything she says.

[marty60]

I assume your being sarcastic. The reporter was giving a time frame for things that had happened while she was in prison. After 4 years in an Italian Prison for something you didn’t do, JB is hardly anything to take seriously. so I’m sure it must have been to give the shallow audience some time referrence.

[SonofReagan]

Let me know when her Playboy issue comes out.

[abigkahuna]

Thank You Marty60! Still, who is Justin Beiber? :)

[marty60]

An annoying little kid that was a big internet sensation.
sort of like a one hit wonder. But hey he and Selena Gomez are a hot item. Tweens playing adult. no biggie.

[Agamemnon]

This juror is deluded if he believes that he can discern truth by reading facial expressions. Evidence is strong that even experienced law enforcement officers are not very good at discerning truth from interviews with suspects.

Come now professor, you mean to tell me that you cannot nor have you ever been able to ascertain that your students very often reveal many of their hidden thoughts through facial expressions and body language?

The juror appears to uphold your own gut sense of this case. Why dump on him? I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss his powers of perception. He was there for 10 months. IbJensen wasn't there for one minute, nor were either you or I. Who's perception of things would likely be the best informed among the 4 of us?

FReegards!

[businessprofessor]

The juror appears to uphold your own gut sense of this case. Why dump on him? I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss his powers of perception. He was there for 10 months. IbJensen wasn't there for one minute, nor were either you or I. Who's perception of things would likely be the best informed among the 4 of us?

I can notice if a student is paying attention or perhaps unsure about the material. My classroom perceptions are far different than discerning if a criminal defendant is guilty based on courtroom observations. I do not know about any research supporting your assertion that the jurors can reliably infer guilt or innocence based on courtroom perceptions. Research indicates that law enforcement cannot reliably discern if suspects are lying so I do not have much confidence that jurors can determine guilt based on courtroom behavior.

Of course I agree that jurors are better informed than me. His reasoning did not inspire much confidence in his verdict however. He may have just been commenting on his general perception that reinforced his opinion of the evidence. I look forward to seeing the full report by the appeals court