Yes, American Beauty. The stress of this ordeal took a toll on her beauty but still hot.
Posted on 04/30/2014 8:22:00 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
The former exchange student from Seattle delivered the fatal slash as cohorts restrained victim Meredith Kercher during a 2007 drug-fueled get together, the judicial panel in Florence asserted in a 337-page document.
In their lengthy dissertation explaining the “motivation” behind their guilty verdict, the judges said the evidence shows Knox “lashed the deadly wound to the throat.”
The judges also concluded that Kercher, 21, of Great Britain was stabbed with “two different knives,” including the one wielded by Knox.
The report found Knox’s ex-boyfriend Rafaelle Sollecito and Rudy Guede were equally responsible for Kercher’s death.
Guede, who is serving a 16-year prison sentence for the murder, told investigators that Kercher had accused Knox of stealing 300 euros from her bedroom in the house they shared in Perugia, Italy.
“Meredith was immobilized and was unable to put up any useful resistance due to the fact that she was overpowered by a number of aggressors and simultaneously stabbed with the blades,” the judges wrote in the report.
The report was written to support the panel’s conviction of Knox and Sollecito in January. Defense lawyers now have 90 days to appeal to Italy’s high court.
From her home in Seattle, Knox scoffed at the report.
“The recent motivation document does not — and cannot — change the forensic evidence: Experts agreed that my DNA was not found anywhere in Meredith’s room, while the DNA of the actual murderer, Rudy Guede, was found throughout that room and on Meredith’s body,” Knox said in a statement Tuesday.
“This forensic evidence directly refutes the multiple-assailant theory found in the new motivation document,” she said. “This theory is not supported by any reliable forensic evidence.”
She said she remained “hopeful” that the Italian Supreme Court will “once again recognize my innocence.”
Knox has vowed to fight any attempts to extradite her to Italy, saying, “they’ll have to pull me back kicking and screaming.”
She and Sollecito were initially found guilty in 2009 and both were sentenced to 25 years in prison. An appeals court overturned the convictions in 2011 and released Sollecito and Knox, who immediately returned to the U.S.
In March 2013, Italy’s highest criminal court set aside the acquittal and ordered a new trial. During the retrial, Knox, who remained in Seattle, and Sollecito were convicted.
And socially a complete cluster.
That reminds me of a joke I heard when over in Germany with the AF:
The difference between Heaven and Hell--
In Heaven, the police are British, the mechanics are German, the chefs are French, the lovers are Italian, and it's all organized by the Swiss.
In Hell, the police are German, the mechanics are French, the chefs are British, the lovers are Swiss, and it's all organized by the Italians.
I couldn't agree more. Their "evidence" gets more bizarre with each iteration.
She’s lucky she got out of there. I shudder to think that we would turn her over to this witch hunt.
I don't know where to start.
Apparently everyone outside of the USA (except for a midwife in Tonga and a Botswanan named Nǃxau) believe Knox is guilty.
In the USA, there are websites, movements, legal defense groups, forensics experts, blogs, activists, and dog breeds devoted to proving Knox's innocence. When you read them, you are convinced Knox is innocent.
There are also USA websites, movements, legal groups, forensics experts, blogs, activists, and dog breeds devoted to showing Knox is guilty. When you read them, you are convinced Knox is guilty.
Knox lied. The Italian police lied. The Italian 'justice' system doesn't appear to have anything to do with justice, and prosecutors and judges have changed the legal theories of the crime and Knox's participation in it more often that I change socks. To Americans, the Italian system appears to include multiple bites at the apple by prosecutors.
A man, who was a friend of Knox's, has admitted his guilt, but (a) doing so gave him a reduced sentence and (b) he never claimed to be the sole person involved.
The police lies are plentiful. As for one Knox lie, she repeats the story about an hours-long, intimidating interrogation in a language she didn't know, before a 'forced' confession. However, dates and times show she received a translator within 30 minutes, and signed the confession within 90 minutes. Her interrogation to confession story is a lie.
Italian DNA experts weren't the quality of US DNA experts, and US DNA experts disagree.
Don't even get into the arguments over the alleged footprint of Knox in her roomie's blood near the front door. We'll need to talk about the fruit juice theory, what luminol fluoresces besides blood, whether Knox's USA forensics expert's DNA tests that conclude 'no blood' are correct, or other DNA experts are correct in saying Knox's DNA experts used method that didn't account for dilution of DNA through luminol, and more sensitive tests that show blood.
We need to address the confessed murder's previous crime using means of entry similar to means of entry into Knox's apartment, plus another crime in which he possessed knife similar to one of the knives used to murder Knox's roommate.
Yeah, it's complicated.
Yes, American Beauty. The stress of this ordeal took a toll on her beauty but still hot.
The Italians are making this up as they go along.....common sense is all you need to figure out what happened in this case.
Yes,I'm fully aware of that and oppose that position vigorously...particularly with Canada and Mexico.If it were up to me my attitude with those two countries would be "no deal,if you adore our murderers so much you can keep them".With such a policy in place those two countries would come to their senses very quickly.
If they can make their laws govern whether one of their nationals gets extradited here, then WE can apply the same principle...
Of course we can.As I've suggested,I'd *never* extradite anyone,of any nationality,to Germany for the crime of "denying the Holocaust" because it's a silly law.I'd also never extradite anyone,of *any* nationality,to China because their legal system is a total fraud.But this is murder,not denying the Holocaust....and it's Italy,a civilized country,and not Bangladesh.
And BTW...this girl can appeal her case not only to the Italian courts but to the European Court of Justice...a court made up of judges that make Supreme Court Justice Quotamayor look positively medieval by comparison.
Wow! Thanks for that roller coaster ride through the case.
Well, I, for one, am glad we base our murder convictions on guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and not your idea of “the odds”. Looking at the odds of someone’s involvement may be a good way to narrow down a list of suspects, but if the evidence isn’t there, you don’t continue on and convict someone based on that standard.
“Italy is beautiful beyond words.”
I’ve been to Italy and the camera came out often to capture some beautiful views. But, I had to hold my nose often too. And, the Italians are surly and lazy. And, everything there is utterly corrupt. And, the beauty of Italy is no grander than one can easily find in Carmel CA, Santa Fe, or the Napa Valley, or many other places in the US with similar climate.
The most beautiful Italian city, Venice, made me want to take a shower every 30 minutes with the smells and disgustingly filthy water everywhere. As for crime, being a hundred miles from any serious crime will put you in Switzerland.
Reconsider.
That was 2% of it, or less.
That was 2% of it, or less.
Be you. Beaucoup research on Knox's innocence in January
Be Another Freeper. Beaucoup research on Knox's guilt in January.
Searching, but ? Who was Another Freeper?
Ah. Tired of Taxes.
This woman is so innocent of this crime, it is a travesty that she is still being pursued. Italian criminal courts area joke. They have the killer already in jail.
This is one of the biggest travesties ever. She is totally innocent. They have the killer in jail. Italians run a joke/kangaroo court system.
I’m a Canadian, i.e. outside the USA. I don’t believe Knox is guilty. I don’t believe she’s innocent, either. What I do believe is that I would not be able to vote to convict her on the circumstantial, contradictory, and incomplete evidence available.
I would not send back an innocent person.
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