Posted on 01/30/2014 1:13:40 PM PST by Uncle Chip
Amanda Knox was found guilty of murder today by an Italian court, the latest twist in a murder case that goes back to 2007.
The verdict reached by the two judges and six jurors came after several hours of deliberations at the Florence courthouse.
The judge sentenced Knox to 28 years in prison. Her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and co-defendant was sentenced to 25 years.
Two Italian judges and six jurors began deliberations earlier today. If Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are found guilty, the court is also expected to pronounce a prison sentence.
The prosecutor has asked for a 26 prison term for the murder for Knox and Sollecito, plus another four years for Knox on a related libel conviction.
This is the fourth time Knox faced a verdict on the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher while they were roommates in Perugia, Italy. Knox, now 26, and Sollecito, 29, were convicted in 2009.
After serving four years in prison they were freed in 2011 when an appeals court threw out the murder conviction. But Italy's supreme court ordered another appeals court to rehear the case. Kercher's sister Stephanie and brother Lyle were in the courtroom for the verdict.
Knox, who is sporting a new, short haircut, remained in her hometown of Seattle for the latest trial. Sollecito was in court today earlier today, but was not present for the verdict....
(Excerpt) Read more at gma.yahoo.com ...
This is the same justice system that convicted and jailed a world renowned scientist for manslaughter, for his failure to predict an earthquake.
“There is more evidence against Knox than 90% of people in jail for murder in the U.S.”
Source?
Ann Coulter is often right. Has she made mistakes? Of course. Many of us have.
Amanda testified the bathroom was clean the day before the murder. She testified that she saw the blood drops on the sink when she came to the apartment after the murder to take a shower and thought the drops came from her own pierced ear.
That shower was the one where Amanda says she did not notice the full bloody footprint on the bathmat.
Well according to Rudy there was no sexual assault. He was just “intimate” with her. So he needs to appeal that sexual assault conviction — along with the murder:
http://www.injusticeinperugia.org/Rudy.html
Guede was recorded during a Skype conversation before his arrest telling a friend that the reports on the news were incorrect. He said Amanda Knox was not present the night the crime took place.
His latest story suggests he was being intimate with Meredith in her room when he suddenly needed to use the bathroom.
Come on, tell us the truth. You're Chris Matthews aren't you?
Do not repeat quotes from pulled posts.
Of course she has and that is why she is not creditable source to cast judgment on Amanda Knox...........
Take your choice. The overwhelming majority of articles state Kercher was sexually assaulted.
What are you talking about? How can I quote a post that was already pulled unless I quoted it before it was pulled?
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Not so. If that were true, why, no one would take your opinion seriously.
Dang, I always miss out on all the fun.
I lost respect for Knox when she found Zimmerman guilty and wanted justice to be served and how can we let this happen to Trayvon. Knox is just another know nothing airhead who only cares about herself.
Dum dum de dumdum
This is Italy. They will reverse this verdict next week, then reverse THAT verdict the following week. As screwed up as our “justice” system is, it’s light years ahead of the Italian one.
“Is there anything the Italians don’t make a mess of?”
Know how to tell if a tire were made in Italy? When deigo flat, deigo go wop wop wop...
I think that mod is still stuck in the traffic in Atlanta........that would drive me nuts too.
Well gosh we don’t know who to believe now because Rudy claimed that he was “intimate” with her and then had to go in and use the toilet.
Is there anywhere there that says that he was convicted of rape or was it just murder??
Wow
Excellent slap down of the long serving star wars monikered black avenger cliche dropping crowd
Are they all the same poster u wonder...
I salute u!
I think you mean uninvolved, and Knox made that statement only after 36 hours of intense interrogation by the police.
However, her initial statement was that she spent the entire night with her boyfriend (for the first time). He was being interviewed at the same time and said she did not spend the night with him.
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