Posted on 12/07/2009 12:38:49 PM PST by markomalley
When Amanda Knox returned to the female wing of prison at Capanne, outside Perugia, after her guilty verdict she was comforted by her three cellmates — a Roma woman, a Chinese woman and a woman from Kosovo — who gave her warm milk and biscuits.
According to Luciano Ghirga, her lawyer, “they have facilities to cook together in the cell and watch TV”. She is allowed an hour of exercise outside the cell in mornings and afternoons. Her routine will not change now that she is a convicted murderer.
Lawyers say that Knox has also been befriended by the warders, who have checked on her every 15 minutes since she was detained two years ago. According to Edda Mellas, her mother: “The inmates and the guards are all taking great care of her.”
She also receives regular visits from her lawyers and from the prison chaplain, with whom she reads the Bible. She reads and writes poetry and stories, is allowed books in her cell — though she complains that the lighting is poor — and plays the guitar and sings. Her performances in court show that while in prison she has acquired fluency in Italian. She is also learning Chinese and German.
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That’s nicer than my first apartment! :-)
If a person is unjustly imprisoned, though, (not saying that she is, as I haven’t studied the case in detail,) even a “nice” cell must be absolute hell.
BTW: Have a safe trip.
Now that I have, let me go on record as saying she is welcome to stab me in the neck for calling her promiscuous anytime.
They gave her dog food?
Rough crowd.
A propos de rien. Wazzup with the cartwheels in the police station while her boyfriend was being questioned? Speed freaks?
That’s nicer than my first apartment! :-)
If a person is unjustly imprisoned, though, (not saying that she is, as I haven’t studied the case in detail,) even a “nice” cell must be absolute hell.
Oh crap! Wrong thread. Pay no attention to the poster behind the laptop. Now what did I post on that other thread.
Never mind.
Ummm.... think about the killers of Sharon Tate. Manson wasn't even there and he still got convicted. 3 people can definitely participate in a murder.
well there is one genrall fact which americans will have to realize. you wount get a special trreatment because you are american, we are talking italy europe. this is not a 3rd world basket case where you can just buy laws. they have legal system and miss koxx is free to fight against this “judge” all she has to do is accept the italian law instead of whining how the tried her. you know when in rome do as the romans too.
Do you read Italian local newspapers?
Not from me! I've been trying to follow this case and from the onset it appears to be a typical prosecuting atty. trying to save face and put another notch on his conviction belt........
There is another case that I have seen on FOX where an American father's son was taken back to Italy by his mentally ill wife and the child ultimately ended up in an orphanage. The guy has been trying to fight Italian law for about two years to get his son back but has been unsuccessful........
There is nothing unjust about it. The evidence against her and Sollecitto is overwhelming. Thus, the guilty verdict.
Have you studied the prosecution’s case as presented at trial? There is simply no way she wasn’t involved.
[And with the lack of DNA evidence against her, she probably wouldn’t kill you like some would retort on this thread.]
Lack of DNA evidence? WRONG.
Knox’s DNA was found on the murder weapon handle (victim’s on the blade) found hidden at the boyfriend’s home hidden in a shoe box. Interestingly, when the boyfriend was confronted with this information, he didn’t claim that Meredith’s blood wasn’t on the blade, but presented a lame excuse that he had accidentally cut Meredith’s hand while they were cooking together (how convenient and per Meredith’s friend’s not true). Forensic scientists testified this knife was compatible with the death blow to the neck (as defined in the autopsy). Also note, the knife had been cleaned with clorox.
Perhaps even more importantly, Knox’s bloody footprint (revealed with luminol), found in the roommates bedroom where the break-in was staged (window broken from inside), contained both the victim’s DNA and Knox’s. Note, this is not the bedroom where Meredith was killed and where body was found, but a different room.
A woman’s bloody shoeprint which matched Amanda Knox’s foot size was found on a pillow under Meredith’s body. This shoe size did not match Meredith or the other roommates.
Knox’s DNA and Meredith’s DNA was also found mixed together in a bloody footprint in the hallway of the new wing of the house.
Knox’s DNA was also found mixed with Meredith’s in 3 separate places in the bathroom.
All this was presented at trial and was only the tip of the iceberg where evidence is concerned.
As I said, the case against Amanda Knox was completely damning and overwhelming.
Yum!
I haven’t really been following this. An Attorney buddy of mine say’s she’ll walk on appeal.
Did she kill her cell mates also?
Except for the part where none of those “facts” are correct it would have been a pretty good case. The so-called “bloody footprints” of hers weren’t actually blood, just footprints. She lived there. That’s not evidence. The knife was from their common kitchen. That’s not evidence either. The only actual bloody footprints and fingerprints were those of Rudy Guede, who testified in his case that nobody else was there at the time.
I’m not saying that *I know* she wasn’t involved as I have no more idea than anyone else. But the case against her was very flimsy on real evidence. Without sequestration of the jury and since they were allowed to read all of the salacious media reports about the case, and since juries in Italy only need a simple majority instead of a unanimous verdict... then yeah, I think there’s some major problems with this case.
The knife in fact doesn’t match the wound.
All that proves is that at one time she used the knife.
I am surprised we haven’t heard more about the blood mixing though, for that is decent evidence.
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