Funny, I get the impression that is exactly what the other guy did - Guede. He pleaded innocent, was found guilty and only got 16 years. Sounds a little fishy, no?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8802474/Amanda-Knox-Who-is-Rudy-Guede.html
Meanwhile, from everything I’ve read, Guede is exactly the type of scumbag I would expect to do the crime, compared to a relatively wealthy young American girl who grew up in the land of granola chicks (Seattle).
I mean, the motive was what? That Kercher was a stick in the mud? Like, the kind of stick in the mud that sleeps with Guede???
While, she very well may have been involved because humans are crazy and unpredictable, the evidence was lacking. How can any prosecutor be surprised that trace amounts of Knox’s DNA is on a kitchen knife in her own apartment?
Yeah that guys DNA was all over the apartment—where it did not belong, if he wasn’t involved.
This case stunk from the get-go.
Statistically a white non gang involved woman stabbing another woman is about as rare as an Amish man being arrested for computer hacking.
Meanwhile the guy with the blood and sperm on the murder victim is less of a murderer than the room mate.
And yes, her story changed - Italian police can and do use physical force during interrogations - things that at Gitmo the left would describe as “torture”. Now I don't think it rises to THAT level - but almost anyone can be bullied into making incriminating statements (that they will then have to change back to the truth) after a long enough interrogation and lack of sleep.
Her being ‘somehow’ involved no doubt makes for a better story, a much more implausible story, but BETTER!!!
Often the most obvious answer is the truth. Often when a man breaks into an apartment and rapes and murders a woman - that woman's roommates were not involved.
It was a kitchen knife in the apartment of Rudy Sollecito, her boyfriend. Thay Knox'z DNA was present on it is still not unusual. What was unusual was also present the DNA of Meredith Kercher, who didn't know Sollecito
The poetic justice is Guede, the guy that really did murder her, later accused Knox of being involved in it after the prosecution pressured him and Guede thought he would get a break if he acceded to the prosecution’s suggestion. This is exactly what Knox did before the police finally did zero in on Guede as the actual killer. Knox accused her boss, an innocent person, by saying she witnessed her boss murder her because she thought the prosecutor would release her if she made such a statement.