Amanda Knox

[Cynical Ninja]

Personally I think she is as innocent as O.J.

She just had the bucks to beat the conviction like O.J.

She went crazy with jealously, like O.J.

[Lady Cop]

Personally I think she is as innocent as O.J.

She just had the bucks to beat the conviction like O.J.

She went crazy with jealously, like O.J.

you and i always seem to agree Pud, like the McCann case. i guess we're cynics. but you worked with the police for a long time, and i made a career of it. you develop good instincts and intuition beyond simply the evidence.
she's guilty and served 4 years for it. i can see the evil in that girl's eyes. i've met it before.

[Kip]

Raff and Amanda need each other

They telephone and write each other every day. Barf.

[HairOfTheDog]

This is on the MSN World page this morning.

Italian Court overturns Amanda Knox's acquittal


The high court's ruling Tuesday overturns the appeals court acquittals.

Italian law cannot compel Knox to return from the U.S. for the new trial. The appellate court hearing the case could declare her in contempt of court, but that carries no additional penalties.

It is unclear what would happen if she was convicted in a new appeals trial.

"If the court orders another trial, if she is convicted at that trial and if the conviction is upheld by the highest court, then Italy could seek her extradition," Knox's lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova said Monday.

It would then be up to the United States to decide if it honors the request. U.S. and Italian authorities could also come to a deal that would keep Knox in the United States.

Read more:
http://news.msn.com/world/italian-court-...-acquittal

I didn't follow the case very closely and don't know enough about it to have an opinion about her guilt or innocence. But, Knox's affect always seemed off to me. The Italian high court obviously thinks there's something to pursue.

I think LC was right; good luck getting Knox back to Italy.

[ramseycat]

I heard that on the news this morning. Most likely the US will fight extradition claiming double jeopardy.

[Jimbone]

Double jeopardy prevents prosecution from trying you again for the same crime if you have been found not guilty in the first trial.

Knox had the first trial, was found guilty. She was put in jail. While in jail, she appealed her conviction. Her conviction was overturned by the Italian appeals court. Because the case was overturned, the prosecution has decided to re-try the case.

Definitely not a double jeopardy scenario.

[ramseycat]

I know what it is. GMA reported that this morning.

[Jimbone]

If you knew that, why did you repeat the nonsense about the US fighting extradition? You posted it up there like it was a fact.

[ramseycat]

I said I heard it on the news. It is fact. They can't report things that are not true. Just like they can't put stuff on the Internet that isn't true.

[Midwest Spy]

This case reminds me an awful lot of two of my favorite movies: Jagged Edge (Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close) and Primal Fear (Edward Norton, Richard Gere).

I guess we'll really never know, although Amanda has been freed, but I just can't help but think she had a hand in setting up Kercher (at the least). She may have participated, though you would expect some blood evidence to have been found on/around her.

I've read that her room was almost sterile when police went to collect evidence. That's odd. Also, why throw the red herring out there and falsely accuse the bar owner? Because she didn't want to implicate Guede, who still could've turned on her.

She set up her roommate, who, by the way, was an attractive foreigner, much like Amanda. Competition, anybody?

Again, I very well could be completely wrong here, but I'll never believe that she's completely innocent in this case.

I didn't realize I ever cared enough about this case to make a comment, but, as usual (i.e., 'Walking While Black' thread) I was right on the money.

[Maggot]

She's in Seattle I think and would be nuts to go back to Italy.

[Midwest Spy]

She's in Seattle I think and would be nuts to go back to Italy.

I'd love to see our government ship her ass back.

[Duchess]

My god you're blood thirsty.

[Midwest Spy]

My god you're blood thirsty.

I vvvant to suck your blood!!

[BlueTiki]

If this becomes a major movie, Tom Cruise should play Amanda.

Tell me you don't see a similarity between her picture and his character, Lestat.

[HairOfTheDog]

Never noticed it before; pretty eerie resemblance...

[NightOwl]

If this becomes a major movie, Tom Cruise should play Amanda.

Tell me you don't see a similarity between her picture and his character, Lestat.

Cruise would be perfect in the role

[HairOfTheDog]

Amanda Knox's book is out.

Just so happens that she's doing a major media tour too.

CNN's been promoting her interview tonight with Chris Cuomo, 10:30 pm ET, if any case followers are interested.

I saw some highlights. Unfortunately, based on the article, one of the questions that I would have liked to hear answered was met with, "it's in my book".

I want to know why she blamed her boss, the black bar owner (the one who successfully sued her for libel, not the black man who was actually involved), if she wasn't involved and had no knowledge of what had gone down.

I won't be buying the book.

[HairOfTheDog]

Italy's high court gives reason for ordering new trial

In the 74-page Cassation ruling, the high court judges said they "had to recognize that he (Guede) was not the sole author" of the crime, Italian news agency LaPresse reported. The judges though said he was the "main protagonist."

They said the new appeal process would serve to "not only demonstrate the presence of the two suspects in the place of the crime, but to possibly outline the subjective position of Guede's accomplices." It said hypotheses ran from a simple case of forced sex involving Kercher "to a group erotic game that blew up and got out of control."

The high court faulted the Perugia appeals court for "multiple instances of deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions. The new court must conduct a full examination of evidence to resolve the ambiguities, it said.

Knox left Italy a free woman after her 2011 acquittal, after serving nearly four years of a 26-year prison sentence. Now a University of Washington student in Seattle, she has called the reversal by the Cassation "painful" but said she was confident she would be exonerated. Italian law cannot compel Knox to return for the new trial and her lawyers have said she has no plans to do so. It is unclear what would happen to Knox if a possible conviction from the new trial is upheld on final appeal.

No date for the new trial has been set. Florence's appeals court was chosen since Perugia only has one appellate court.

full story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-5...new-trial/
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I'm suspicious of Knox, but not convinced that she's guilty.

One of the reasons it's hard for me to form an opinion, even knowing the evidence, is that the handling of the case by Italian authorities was such a disaster, imo. Now, the High Court apparently claims the same was true of the appellate case.

Hoping they pull it together by the time this case goes to court, again.

[Carsman]

Do I hear "double jeopardy"?