I swear someone started a thread on this. Cluezo?
Interesting case, weird case, but Jesus Cristo, it's technically not over. Foxy Knoxy? Nah. But did she write a book? "Will ya come back to Italy?" Asnwer: "I don't think so." Fookin' hell no ya won't. Wops could go for extradition, but I think not.
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Originally published Monday, March 25, 2013
Italy high court overturns Knox acquittal
Italy's highest criminal court on Tuesday overturned Amanda Knox's acquittal in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial, prolonging a case that has become a cause celebre in the United States.
By FRANCES D'EMILIO (http://search.nwsource.com/search?searchtype=cq&sort=date&from=ST&byline=FRANCES%20D%27EMILIO)
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Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are awaiting the verdict of their appeal that could see their conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher overturned.
ROME — Italy's highest criminal court on Tuesday overturned Amanda Knox's acquittal in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial, prolonging a case that has become a cause celebre in the United States.
Knox called the decision "painful" but said she was confident in the truth.
The Court of Cassation ruled that an appeals court in Florence must re-hear the case against the American student and her Italian ex-boyfriend for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. The exact issues that have to be reconsidered won't be known until the court releases its full ruling within 90 days.
Knox, now a student at the University of Washington, stayed up until 2 a.m. Seattle time to hear her fate and issued a statement through a family spokesman.
"It was painful to receive the news that the Italian Supreme Court decided to send my case back for revision when the prosecution's theory of my involvement in Meredith's murder has been repeatedly revealed to be completely unfounded and unfair," the statement said.
Knox said the matter must now be examined by "an objective investigation and a capable prosecution."
"No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity," Knox said in the statement.
Kercher's body was found in November 2007 in her bedroom of the house she shared with Knox and others in Perugia, an Italian university town where the two women were exchange students. Her throat had been slashed.
Prosecutors alleged Kercher was the victim of a drug-fueled sex game gone awry. Knox and Sollecito denied wrongdoing and said they weren't even in the apartment that night, although they acknowledged they had smoked marijuana and their memories were clouded.
An Ivory Coast man, Rudy Guede, was convicted of the slaying in a separate proceeding and is serving a 16-year sentence. Knox and Sollecito were also initially convicted of the murder and given long prison sentences, but were then acquitted on appeal and released in 2011.
The high court's ruling Tuesday overturned the appeals court acquittals.
"She thought the nightmare was over," Knox attorney Carlo Dalla Vedova said after the decision was released.
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.
Della Vedova said Knox wouldn't come to Italy "for the moment" but would follow the case from home. He sa
id he didn't think the new appeals trial would begin before early 2014. Asked if she would come to Italy for the trial, he said: "I don't think so."
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
Amanda Knox Trial (again)
RespondQuote Originally Posted by a Stupid Man
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As for the reciprocity, Knox is expendable IMO.
She would be if she wasn't young, female, pretty, 'foxy' and all-American. But her well-funded media machine does rather emphasise these attributes, doesn't it.
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If someone can post up some corroborated evidence against here I am willing to look at it.
How magnanimous of you. How are posters here supposed to come up with such evidence when we haven't sat in court throughout all the various hearings and haven't had the opportunity to read all the evidence? With every respect, you've read partial accounts by those who, like you, have decided that Knox cannot be guilty. The fact is that most judges and jurors who have actually heard the entire case have ruled against her. Are you really sure that couldn't have happened in the US if Knox was, say, British?
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How magnanimous of you. How are posters here supposed to come up with such evidence when we haven't sat in court throughout all the various hearings and haven't had the opportunity to read all the evidence?
The evidence is available.
Ever heard of a google search?
And, the link I provided.
And, the book I am reading that I bought on Kindle for $1.98.
The evidence is all there for everyone to see.
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Ever heard of a google search?
yes.
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Ever heard of a google search?
I've heard of them, but I don't believe they actually exist.
Until someone shows me some hard evidence then I'm afraid I'm filing them with UFOs.
So because the "evidence" is all over google, therefore it must mean that Knox is not guilty.
Stupid man, I respect your point of view, but just because you've read a book and performed a google search doesn't prove her innocence. I'm sure there are google searches that prove Obama is a lizard commie who's part of the illuminati, doesn't mean it's true though.
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Stupid man, I respect your point of view,
[image: http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/images/smilies/laugh.gif] That made my gob snortle.
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The allowing of extradition by the US will be because of reciprocity in the future.
In the future, let's say Italy has an American fugitive or terror suspect. Italy could refuse to extradite as a tit-for-tat. It's all about possibilities
Anything is possible.
But this one is highly unlikely.
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a google search doesn't prove her innocence
They need to prove she is guilty...not vice versa
^^^ I know that, I was referring to stupid mans comment.
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Ever heard of a google search?
And, the link I provided.
And, the book I am reading that I bought on Kindle for $1.98.
The evidence is all there for everyone to see.
Ho ho, stupid by both name and nature. So a google search, a heavily biased (sorry :'inspired') link and a remaindered book on Kindle prove her innocence?
Clearly you want to bang Knox. I mean someone that hot just can't be involved in murder, er, can they? Google's never wrong..
If Amanda does go back to Italy, I hope she can do a scene with Rocco Siffredi. Kill two birds with one stone, as it were.
By the way, stupid, in your extensive google searches have you come across this Dershowitz interview? Interesting points from a US Law professor of considerable experience:
"I would say that there are thousands of Americans in jail today on the basis of far less evidence than there is against Amanda Knox," Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor, said.
"One, she first admitted she was at the crime scene and then denied it. Second, she falsely accused somebody who was totally innocent of committing the murder. Third, she turned off her cell phone during the relative period of time. Fourth, there was DNA found underneath the bra strap and on the knife.
"It wasn't enough to establish conclusively that it was hers, but it certainly pointed in that direction. There was a pool of blood with a footprint and the man who was convicted of the murder blamed it on her, testified against her, the court found that it couldn't have been done by one person, it had to be done by at least two people."
"I have to tell you, in 50 years of practicing law, I had never seen a more one-sided presentation by the media in the United States of the case. Everybody is saying there's no evidence against her and she's totally innocent. It's just not true."
Food for thought!
Dershowitz: I Wouldn't Want My Son Going Out With Amanda Knox (http://www.newsmax.com/NewsmaxTv/alan-dershowitz-amanda-knox-murder-trial/2014/01/31/id/550244#ooid=F4djloazqYsp7SFcecW6Nb6n5TlPCk8A)
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Ho ho, stupid by both name and nature. So a google search, a heavily biased (sorry :'inspired') link and a remaindered book on Kindle prove her innocence?
Clearly you want to bang Knox. I mean someone that hot just can't be involved in murder, er, can they? Google's never wrong..
I do not think Knox is this hot babe. Yes, google has a lot of BS. We all know that. Again, there is evidence in links. Look for links that claim she's guilty. Fair enough.
Jesus.
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If Amanda does go back to Italy, I hope she can do a scene with Rocco Siffredi. Kill two birds with one stone, as it were.
Rocco lives in LA.
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By the way, stupid, in your extensive google searches have you come across this Dershowitz interview? Interesting points from a US Law professor of considerable experience:
Yes, I've read this article and other comments by Dershowitz. Dorwell claims what we know about this case is from the lens of the media - then he posted comments by Dershowitz from - a mainstream media source.[image: http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/images/smilies/adrian.gif]
It's all context, I used Dershowitz as a way to highlight the strange possibility that Knox could be guilty. She could also be innocent. I wasn't involved in the case, and most of the stuff you find on google is a mixture of conjecture, Chinese whispers and bias.
I will try to find evidence that is corroborated that puts Knox at the crime scene tomorrow.
I am open and stand to be corrected. But so far....not yet.
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It's all context, I used Dershowitz as a way to highlight the strange possibility that Knox could be guilty. She could also be innocent. I wasn't involved in the case, and most of the stuff you find on google is a mixture of conjecture, Chinese whispers and bias.
Exactly, I think she knows more about it than she claims, the Italians might have dumb cops but the judges aren't stupid...but I doubt she could be convicted in an English or US Court...just don't ask me about Blacks on trial in Texas.
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I think she knows more about it than she claims
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And,,,,,as me ol' mum used to say,,,,,,, "Wer ther's smoke ther's fire"
...well, considering she had you to contend with...
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I think she knows more about it than she claims
Undoubtedly she does.
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I doubt she could be convicted in an English or US Court
She wouldn't be convicted by a US jury, she's too much like the 'girl next door' especially when she tones down the foxiness and makes her voice tremble thus portraying herself as the much put-upon victim. She's been doing it in TV interviews for years. However, if she was Italian or British she'd be in trouble. Remember she did deliberately finger the conveniently black - and innocent - bar owner after Sollecito withdrew his alibi.
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just don't ask me about Blacks on trial in Texas.
Indeed.
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She wouldn't be convicted by a US jury, she's too much like the 'girl next door' especially when she tones down the foxiness
Jodi Arias disagrees
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