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 ...
Mears, haven't I warned you against arguing with idiots? They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
I think today he asked for a new trial or an appeal.
I swear, for all of the “factual based conservatives” there are a ton of people running around on emotion here.
Misplaced emotion, class warfare and a belief that alleged promiscuity is deserving of being railroaded into a decades long prison term.
He did, so lets see how that plays out.
But he also confessed to doing it, and told his cellmates the same.
My first experience with that poster-——and my last.
Congrats to The Rangers-——Red Sox Nation is falling apart,sadly. Most astonishing September in years.
Org...you really need to see how badly they treated the evidence...from the beginning...tossing it around as if umimportant....as well when they went back 16 weeks later and how they treated it then....it’s truly a major fail on the part of the ivestigators and police...shameful in fact.
Note & Warning: Some small photos of the crime scene are depicted here. No closeups though
http://www.groundreport.com/World/Amanda-Knox-Evidence-Uncollected-by-Forensic-Polic/2941556
check out post 87 Buccaneer...and see how they “abused” the crime scene and didn’t even collect the victims clothes until weeks later... major evidence was dismissed entirely....it’s dispicable what the police and investagators did....
http://www.injusticeinperugia.org/TheBraClasp.html
$/ear may have posted this link previously? Anyway - lots of good information on the whole thing at this site. Well done, lots of information regarding specifics, statements, the trial, etc. The link is just one small part of the site, and discusses in detail the bra clasp. Shows photos of it a day or so after the murder, and then them retreiving it 47 days later in a room that was severly messed up since its original state.
BTW - Merideth shared the apartment with Knox and others, but she had her own room.
I agree.
Amandas guilty,,,, foreigner.
You might want to check all those who who held various fund raisers for the Rosenberg’s and more recently the O.J. Simpson’s defense.
I checked with Ann Coulter, thank you, who has a higher reputation that one sentence keyboard warriors and Donald Trump for that matter.
I repeat, your heroine maybe a murderess but she is OUR murderess, and that is all this case been about on these pages. Shame.
Yes, I thought it was a good site as well. Other’s would do well visiting it to get a handle on what actually went down IMO. They did a good job bringing things together there.
There are also some good articles ‘online’ about the Prosecuter.....wow! The guy is as tainted as the evidence was and explains much of his outbursts and choice of words throughout the trial.
You act like a sleazy drunk.
The parents are deeply in debt with lawyer fees.
Reminds me of the Bible verse where the shepheard will do everything and not quit until the one sheep is found. Or - the legal version of the Dad Liam Niesan (sp?) plays in the movie “Taken”.
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito could not have had anything to do with the murder of Meredith Kercher.
Moreover, one reason that they were falsely convicted was that every rule of good investigation was violated.
I spent years of my life working on cases in the federal courts, from simple murder to mass shootings to weapons of mass destruction..... In the U.S., the totality of the evidence and the hunches of the investigators in this matter would not have been sufficient to get a search warrant, much less take somebody to trial.
The case is completely flawed in every way. The physical evidence against Amanda and Raffaele is wrong, contrived, misinterpreted, and (to put it kindly) misstated..... The other “evidence” is made up of (embarrassingly naïve) hunches and bias.
The “DNA” evidence is particularly inaccurate. The alleged motive and modus operandi of Knox/Sollecito is so tortured (and constantly-changing) that it defies belief.
By ‘Steve Morre’ - Forensic Speicalist - retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after 25 years as a ‘Special Agent’ and ‘Supervisory Special Agent’.
He states.....”My entire investigative experience was in the investigation and prosecution of violent crime, from murder to mass-murder and terrorism.
In my last such assignment, I was the Supervisor of the Al Qaeda Investigations squad, following which I ran the FBI’s Los Angeles-based “Extra-Territorial Squad”, which was tasked with responding to any acts of terrorism against the United States in Asia and Pakistan. I have investigated murders throughout the United States and the world.
Forensic Specialist 25 yrs
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