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Amanda Knox heads home after acquittal
Reuters ^ | 4 October 2011

Posted on 10/04/2011 4:08:03 PM PDT by bjorn14

American student Amanda Knox flew home free on Tuesday after spending four years in an Italian jail, leaving the family of murdered British student Meredith Kercher racked with anguish that they are no closer to the truth about her killing.

Knox, cleared of the murder by an appeals court on Monday night, left Rome shortly before midday for London where she and her family were boarding a connecting flight to their home in Seattle, airport officials said.

The 24-year-old broke down sobbing and nearly collapsed with emotion on Monday night after an appeals court in Perugia ruled she and her former boyfriend, Italian computer student Raffaele Sollecito, were not guilty of killing Kercher and should be freed immediately.

Prosecutors said on Tuesday they would appeal against the ruling and Kercher's disappointed family said their ordeal and the search for answers about the brutal murder would go on.

"We're still absorbing it. You think you've come to a decision and now it's been overturned," Meredith's mother Arline told reporters at a news conference.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amandaknox; knoxitaly
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To: bjorn14

The best justice daddy’s money can buy.

And what was the role of the State Dept. and the White House in this matter, inquiring minds want to know?


21 posted on 10/04/2011 5:12:58 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Guenevere

It does seem as if to some the girl is guilty of not being home to have been the 2nd victim.


22 posted on 10/04/2011 5:14:50 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

“old-world aristocrats” ?.....

You are obviously a genious and your “new-world” with no values ,no good, no bad, no truth and no wrong...will soon make you regret and understand somethings...
But it will be maybe too late.
Keep being brainwashed by your medias and their big owners. You will be a perfect tool.

What kind of “envy” are you speaking about.
The envy of little american whores and their pathetic lives.

The bad luck for her roommate savagely murdered is to have been with A.Knox apparently.

Your so-called “new-world” is a world of mediocrity and soon of barbaria. You should better watch out.


23 posted on 10/04/2011 5:15:16 PM PDT by Ulysse (a)
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To: Revolting cat!
The best justice daddy’s money can buy.

Her family is flat broke.

24 posted on 10/04/2011 5:21:31 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: org.whodat

Your point? There is a man in jail who confessed to it.


25 posted on 10/04/2011 5:21:45 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Ulysse

Please, never serve on a jury.


26 posted on 10/04/2011 5:22:36 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

The flat broke I’ve known can’t afford a trip to the next county, much less to sunny Italy!


27 posted on 10/04/2011 5:24:07 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yeah, but lets not let that get in the way of reacting on emotion. Its better to be mad that someone accused of a crime is set free than it is to believe the murderer’s own words.


28 posted on 10/04/2011 5:24:07 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Ulysse

Hey, frog. You’re sounding like typical Eurotrash.


29 posted on 10/04/2011 5:24:19 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: caww

Thank you for posting this. FINALLY, a Freeper posts the truth. This information has been available for some years now - but people don’t bother to either: Do research on the subject at hand before opining, or just STFU.

So many Freepers, on this subject, in the last 2 days have been very disappointing. More like a DU thread.


30 posted on 10/04/2011 5:25:01 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: Revolting cat!
The flat broke I’ve known can’t afford a trip to the next county, much less to sunny Italy!

They're flat broke NOW, after spending every cent they had. Even the grandmother gave them $250,000 which at age 72 was all she had.

31 posted on 10/04/2011 5:26:44 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Ulysse

So we should keep her locked up because she “may have a link?” Sounds like good ol European justice to me, forcing them to prove innocence. What exactly did her way of life make easy?

And who said she was a hero?


32 posted on 10/04/2011 5:27:47 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Revolting cat!

Pretty sure her grandmother cashed out her savings and her parents mortgaged their house.

But more to the point, when did we start resorting to class warfare?


33 posted on 10/04/2011 5:29:28 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: bjorn14
This obscure commentator must be 'Eurotrash', 'a lib' and a 'DU member' to boot! Foo!
34 posted on 10/04/2011 5:29:36 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: maine-iac7

Excellent points. And the alleged FReepers who pulled the class warfare card and the “slut” card made me want to puke.


35 posted on 10/04/2011 5:29:44 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Ulysse

I think you believe a great many things that simply are not so.


36 posted on 10/04/2011 5:30:38 PM PDT by Ramius (personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Revolting cat!

Ann has gone off the reservation on several things recently. She’s been sounding like Bette Midler lately.


37 posted on 10/04/2011 5:31:55 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

He’s French, they just use the guillotine.


38 posted on 10/04/2011 5:31:55 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Raider Sam

That does not add up per the story, the dead girl had hair in her hand that did not come from him, it was either planted are another person was there. And who cleaned up the apartment.


39 posted on 10/04/2011 5:32:28 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: bjorn14

“American student Amanda Knox flew home free on Tuesday after spending four years in an Italian jail, leaving the family of murdered British student Meredith Kercher racked with anguish that they are no closer to the truth about her killing.”

Uh, her killer’s in jail. Granted, it’s only for a paltry 16 years but that’s the truth of things.


40 posted on 10/04/2011 5:34:02 PM PDT by Raebie (WS)
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