Posted on 10/03/2011 12:57:47 PM PDT by montag813
AMANDA KNOX ACQUITTED, TO BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY
Small compensation for spending over 4 years in a foreign prison for a crime she didn't do...I hope she prospers greatly from this travesty of international justice.
Tell you the truth I couldn’t be bothered about her.
Foxy knoxy as the media likes to call her is about to be on every show selling her book, maybe get a TV deal etc.
I’m just changing my batteries in the remote.
You seem to have conveniently omitted the fact that the other man, the African Rudy Guede, was convicted and is serving 16 years because he cut a deal.
You're obviously not that familiar with the case. The ACTUAL murderer has been convicted and is serving a 16 year sentence......his name is Rudolph Guede.
I’d buy the book for sure.
Hey, I like show tunes, especially from "Annie Get Your Gun"...
By that logic, no one who is arrested is ever innocent. There is just not enough evidence to convict....but you're really guilty....never innocent.
The Government is never wrong, right?
You couldn’t be bothered w/her but posted untruths about her because of preconceived opinions and didn’t continue reading to get the truth.
An American college student who was accused of killing one of her roommates while attending college overseas (in Italy, I believe).
SEATTLE - Elisabeth Huff reads the last letter her granddaughter Amanda, wrote to her.
"Don't worry about me, together we can do everything," Huff reads, while holding back tears. "She always writes this at the end, in German 'Here comes the sun, let it be, I know I'm not alone, even when I'm alone. That's Amanda. That's my last letter."
Huff had hoped on this day she'd prepping to cook rouladan, Amanda's favorite Christmas dish. She anticipated holding her first born granddaughter in her arms.
But an Italian jury convicted Amanda of murdering her British roommate in 2007 and sentenced her to 26 years in prison.
"My husband served in Vietnam. I dealt with that easier because I knew there was help, there were people working with him in that situation. This is harder on me on that," she said.
Huff said it's hard to watch from thousands of miles away, Amanda sullen, weak and at times defeated. It's also financially devastating. At 72 years old, Huff is $250,000 in personal debt. Collectively, the family has spent more than a million dollars on attorney fees and travel, and it's not over.
"We lived by what our income let us have. This just blows us out of the water," said Huff.
The brightest spot comes once a week, when Huff recieves a letter from Amanda. Family and supporters also keeps her hopeful.
"That's it, you have to believe. That's the only thing that keeps the neck stiff, your back up, your chin up," she said.
Last night was tough, Huff says she spent the night tossing, turning and crying. Tonight however, her resolve is stronger than ever. As she does every Saturday, Huff will sit down to write Amanda a letter, filled with love and words of wisdom, the kind only a grandmother can give.
"This time I'm going to tell Amanda we're all behind you. We're all going to fight this through, you just need to help us out by being strong and sticking it out," she said.
Amanda's aunt, Janet Huff, says the gloves are now off. The family will be fighting aggressively to get Amanda home through the appeals process. They're not sure how they'll pay for it, but they're thankful for all of the contributions through the Amanda Knox Defense Fund. They're asking supporters not to forget, they need the support now, more than ever.
http://www.nwcn.com/news/washington/Knox-Family-Financiall-Drained-78608472.html
OK, I give up :)
It is very obvious that there are a bunch of people on this thread who have not been following the case, do not know the details of it, and are talking out of their hat.
Um, maybe you can be pro family, pro family values and still have a sense of humor?
Posts like yours shows why the left think we're all so uptight.
Lighten up, Francis.
I do, also, and I’d buy her book if she plans on writing one. This travesty will not be good for Italy’s tourism with a deranged prosecutor on the loose.
I love people who are clueless, Rudy Guede admitted to killing Kercher, he's in jail right now.
You have a rather high opinion of the British tabloids. They're the only ones who used that silly phrase.
She's a psycho-skank who was doing college in Italy where she helped a dude murder some other chick student in some weird drug-fueled sex game.
If you were accused of stabbing someone else and there was absolutely no evidence to support it AND someone else confessed to the murder and is now in jail I would hope you would get the same results as Amanda Knox.
That’s not what the evidence showed. And the killer is serving 16 years. You did realize that, right?
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