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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: colorado tanker
Actually she was interrogated for 56 hrs. how would anyone have stood up to that endless barrage without their story changing...especially when police officers already had woven their own story of what happened...and their questions were framed to get the answers they were seeking.

Those familiar with how investigators do their work have stated these tactics used can and do obtain information that they can weave into any scenario they want......Additionally you have a very young gal believing the police are trying to solve a murder....not implicate you....it was a messy job from the beginning.

61 posted on 10/04/2011 6:32:01 PM PDT by caww
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To: Raider Sam

The word “old world” was used by one stupid above, what’s his name, there.And i was just highlighting the stupidity .Try to fix your own problems

She “may” NOT have a link with that affair but she HAS obviously a link since she was the roommate and at least her amoral way of life may have favoured the crime. This doesn’t mean that she is guilty of the crime but this means that the poor Meredith should probably be alive if she didn’t meat with Amanda Knox(like it or not) .
Judicial custody is not opposed to residence assignation....but anyway you don’t seem to care about truth and the behaviour of that A.Knox...A nice icon of american girls?? Huh ?

You released Strauss-Kahn because he was/is a wealthy rotten and powerfull man. I don’t defend Strauss-Kahn because he is french. I don’t care. Cyrus Vance didn’t take in consideration Strauss-Kahn lies and other affairs.
This is , at least , a cheap justice


62 posted on 10/04/2011 6:36:03 PM PDT by Ulysse (a)
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To: org.whodat

The hair ....the hair was Guedas...as was the bloody hand print on the pillow....his DNA was everywhere..inside the victim and out.


63 posted on 10/04/2011 6:37:27 PM PDT by caww
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To: Guenevere
A lot of this has been lost in the vendetta against Knox, IMO

That's exactly right Guen....and they were relentless to paint a picture of Knox as a she devil in every respect.

64 posted on 10/04/2011 6:39:33 PM PDT by caww
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To: Revolting cat!

You might want to check with ‘Donald Trump’ who supported the family throughout this, and continues to do so...also the many who held various fund raisers for Knox’s defense...


65 posted on 10/04/2011 6:41:52 PM PDT by caww
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To: org.whodat
they would not be writing stories asking who kill her, would they.

You're smart enough to know that the European media is almost universally anti-American.

66 posted on 10/04/2011 6:42:06 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: caww

And don’t forget she didn’t speak Italian four years ago. Imagine a rapid fire interrogating in Italian with a stumbling translator getting the questions and your replies out of sequence. With the interrogator asking you to speculate on what could have happened and then calling it a “confession”. This is right out of a bad movie script for a Pink Panther farce.


67 posted on 10/04/2011 6:42:26 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (There's a reason the mascot of the Democratic Party is a jackass.)
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To: buccaneer81

I like when you show your stupidity.

As if morality was a question of “frog” or american.
I was speaking of YOUR morality. I think and i know that there are some smart american people. I met some of them.

But i hope they will prevail.
France as a whole is not a model on the contrary. I assume that


68 posted on 10/04/2011 6:44:24 PM PDT by Ulysse (a)
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To: Raider Sam
when did we start resorting to class warfare?

When the economy went bad and class envy kicked into overdrive.

69 posted on 10/04/2011 6:46:17 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: AmusedBystander

Hopefully she’ll use that money to sue the prosecutor and police officers that railroaded her and manufactured the “evidence” against her. They need to be put away before they do this to other innocents. If not imprisoned, then at least hounded out of public service in disgrace and penniless from paying her awards. The prosecutor, at least, has already been convicted of malfeasance and sentenced to 16 months in jail.


70 posted on 10/04/2011 6:47:35 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (There's a reason the mascot of the Democratic Party is a jackass.)
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To: buccaneer81

Has nothing to do with it.


71 posted on 10/04/2011 6:47:41 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: Ulysse
My mother's side of the family is French-Canadian. I have been aware since birth of how your "culture" operates. It's generally not a pretty sight.

My mother was once asked why she married "an English." She replied, "Because I have more sense than to marry a French clod."

You, sir, are trash.

72 posted on 10/04/2011 6:48:46 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: org.whodat
Has nothing to do with it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

You crack me up.

73 posted on 10/04/2011 6:50:35 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: caww

Not what the story says. What I find more damning than anything is a room, shared by the two only had dna of one. Someone did a lot of cleaning.


74 posted on 10/04/2011 6:51:53 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: Ulysse

You brought nationality into the discussion with your “little american whores” comment.

Had a bad night,eh?


75 posted on 10/04/2011 6:55:09 PM PDT by Mears
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To: bjorn14

I’m sure she is setting up a double-date with Casey Anthony.


76 posted on 10/04/2011 6:56:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kellis91789

LOL, do you know what the convicted girls major was in??? She was a linguistics major.


77 posted on 10/04/2011 6:56:52 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: org.whodat
Someone did a lot of cleaning.

Nobody cleans well enough to remove all DNA evidence.

78 posted on 10/04/2011 6:57:23 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Ulysse

You brought up the whole old world vs America crap.

The rest of your post is just idiotic rambling.


79 posted on 10/04/2011 6:59:21 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: org.whodat
LOL, do you know what the convicted girls major was in??? She was a linguistics major.

You think that makes a person fluent as a 20 year old college junior?

I used to be bilingual. Not anymore, because I didn't use my French after college.

The girl was over in Europe to learn...she wasn't equipped for a life or death interrogation.

80 posted on 10/04/2011 7:01:06 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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