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Amanda Knox Case: Italian Court Overturns Murder Conviction
WWW.NBCNEWS.COM ^ | 3/27/2015

Posted on 03/27/2015 2:52:26 PM PDT by CaptainK

The highest court in Italy on Friday has overturned the murder convictions of Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend in the sensational 2007 stabbing death of her British roommate.

The ruling was the latest turn in an odyssey of international justice for Knox, who spent four years in an Italian jail after the killing. She has returned to the United States and vowed not to return to Italy.

She and the ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted in 2009, then acquitted and freed in 2011. An appeals court overturned the acquittals and ordered a new trial, and they were convicted again last year. Knox was sentenced in absentia to 25 years in prison. Sollecito was sentenced to 28 1/2 years.

Knox and Sollecito were arrested after the roommate, Meredith Kercher, was found dead in a pool of blood in their apartment in the university town of Perugia, as many as 40 knife wounds over her half-naked body.

Prosecutors argued that Kercher was killed as part of a sex game. Knox and Sollecito said they were alone together on the night in question, watching a movie, smoking pot and having sex.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amandaknox; italy; knox; murder
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To: CaptainK

Good. Always thought she was as innocent.


61 posted on 03/27/2015 4:33:24 PM PDT by Blackirish
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To: Kenny Bunk
she ought to split it with George Zimmerman.

I lost respect for Amanda Knox when she went after Zimmerman...

Quotes:
amanda knox ‏@Amandu_knoxx 22 Mar 2012 How can we let this happen to #Trayvon Martin..it's heart breaking . i pray for justice god bless his family #amandaknox

amanda knox ‏@Amandu_knoxx 22 Mar 2012 my prayers and heart go out to the family of #Trayvon Martin and his family, i hope justice will be served #amandaknox

https://twitter.com/amandu_knoxx

62 posted on 03/27/2015 4:34:07 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: FredZarguna; nickcarraway

i would support a list of people that should never be allowed on a jury, you 2 would be near the top of the list


63 posted on 03/27/2015 4:34:10 PM PDT by Chauncey Uppercrust
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To: FredZarguna
Italy has a system that allows multiple levels of trial. If they don't like it, they have a republican form of government and they can change it. There's nothing dodgy about the process here, just the behavior of the police, Amanda Knox, and her accomplices, only one of whom now will serve time for the crime.

I think some people have the view that judicial systems outside of the US are kangaroo courts. I saw the movie La Scorta, which was about a bunch of bodyguards for Italian magistrates in charge of cases against Cosa Nostra kingpins. My impression then was that Italy mollycoddles criminal suspects. Its justice system is anything but draconian and arbitrary.

64 posted on 03/27/2015 4:35:01 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Boogieman

amen, thank you


65 posted on 03/27/2015 4:35:13 PM PDT by Chauncey Uppercrust
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To: Chauncey Uppercrust

Fortunately, your opinion about that carries as much weight with anyone sensible as all of your other ravings.


66 posted on 03/27/2015 4:36:30 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
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To: CedarDave

Check out that website. The research there is well done.


67 posted on 03/27/2015 4:36:54 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Zhang Fei
Yet they see nothing wrong with the US court system, with its endless opportunities for abuse by criminals, particularly for the most heinous types of crimes, which cost taxpayers millions of dollars and ultimately go nowhere.

Or worse, result in guilty people going free: http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/spare_us_the_lies_about_the_late_hurricane_carter_mulshine.html

The Double Jeopardy clause became part of the Fifth Amendment because of endless abuses of an open-ended process by The Crown, not because one verdict of not guilty is always the best possible outcome there is. The Italian system is not an open-ended arbitrary process. It has well-defined steps and a definite conclusion. And most importantly, if it were really an affront to the Rights of Man Italians could change it. In fact, much more easily than we can.

68 posted on 03/27/2015 4:50:42 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
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To: FredZarguna; Tired of Taxes

That’s a good comparison about Jodi Arias. Completely!

And now, I am down the rabbit hole, reading Tired of Taxes link... about all the lies Knox and her family and boyfriend told...


69 posted on 03/27/2015 4:57:53 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: nickcarraway

Your opinion is surely based on scrutiny of years of evidence. Right?


70 posted on 03/27/2015 5:03:07 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: FredZarguna

You have no genuine argument supporting your accusations so you resort to name calling. How “progressive.”


71 posted on 03/27/2015 5:03:20 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Blackirish

Good. Always thought she was as innocent.


I wouldn’t call her “innocent” but I don’t believe she murdered the victim.


72 posted on 03/27/2015 5:04:34 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: FredZarguna

Reasonable requires reason.


73 posted on 03/27/2015 5:06:09 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill
Therefore, in protest of the horrible Italian legal system, I will refrain from buying.......

Don't forget olive oil and various pastas..........

74 posted on 03/27/2015 5:07:19 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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To: FredZarguna

Probably is not a very astute reason to declare someone guilty.


75 posted on 03/27/2015 5:07:20 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: Borax Queen; FredZarguna

Here’s how the Kercher family is reacting to the overturned convictions:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3272995/posts


76 posted on 03/27/2015 5:13:06 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Chauncey Uppercrust; FredZarguna

Are you Ron Kuby?


77 posted on 03/27/2015 5:24:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Zhang Fei

And besides, the second black guy she accused was actually involved.


78 posted on 03/27/2015 5:50:12 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Television: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover)
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To: nickcarraway

I would bet everything I own that my guy Ted Cruz is thrilled to hear about Amanda being exonerated.


79 posted on 03/27/2015 6:29:56 PM PDT by Chauncey Uppercrust
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To: conservative98

Amazing if that’s really her. Sounds just barely literate.


80 posted on 03/27/2015 6:33:47 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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