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<p>I hope she really is innocent and that media pressure hasn’t influenced the decision. I suspect the only person who will ever really know is Knox herself. I really hope she doesnt try to profit from this with books, interviews or films - she’s got her freedom, let her be satisfied with that and give the Kercher family some peace.</p>
<p>Thank heavens that Italian “evidence” was reexamined. What a nightmare for both families.</p>
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<p>I know what you’re saying, but if she is innocent, she lost 4 years of her life and her parents went through their life savings all because of a false accusation and shoddy policework. It is every parent’s nightmare. I for one would be interested in hearing how she kept herself sane through all that.</p>
<p>If she was unjustly accused and imprisoned, for the glory of a nutcase prosecutor, and spent four years in prison for something she didn’t do…why should she not have to right to tell her story? Yes, for as much profit as possible. It is intriguing and sad.</p>
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<p>No amount of monetary gain will ever give her those four years back. And neither will her family ever be the same. She was freed based on a closer analysis of the evidence, and had incredible odds to overcome. This case is similar to people exonerated by new DNA testing. The wrongly accused are never really considered innocent by everyone. What a burden to carry for a lifetime. </p>
<p>The best way to find justice for her and for the slain girl is to keep this is in the news. Compared to all the garbage that gets produced in Hollywood and worthless books published, this is one story worth telling.</p>
<p>I think she will be a very rich young woman. Bidding starts at $10 Million for book or movie rights.</p>
<p>I hope she publishes an amazing book, makes a fortune, that changes her name and vanishes from the public eye.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the truth is in this case, but I was disturbed from the beginning by the extent to which it seemed to hinge on the “bad girl” premise. Maybe it’s just reading about women drivers in Saudi Arabia being prosecuted for driving, and the hysteria over the Kaycee/Kaylee or whatever her name was case, but it seems as if there’s an undercurrent of fear of female sexuality and the corollary of the justifiability of suppressing and punishing women re-emerging throughout the world.</p>
<p>I am so happy she was acquited. </p>
<p>I don’t even know how she was convicted with that “evidence.”</p>
<p>I also seriously hope she writes a book, as a warning to others who go to study abroad. Our kids go to these other countries believing in their hearts that the criminal justice system is the same. She went into the police over and over and over and cooperated with them never even considering the possibility she could be a target of the investigation.</p>
<p>The DNA evidence was ludicrous, but then, to find out that part of the prosecutors case was the eye witness testimony of a vagrant that she had gotten off of a bus that night which didn’t even run on the night in question? </p>
<p>The whole time, I thought, this is the worst kind of “salem witch trial.”</p>
<p>So, I actually hope she writes a book, which I mostly dont in this kind of thing, but hers could tell a valuable, cautionary tale.</p>
<p>ETA: I feel horrible for the parents of the victim. Clearly the man whose DNA evidence was found mingled with her blood, who was convicted and will only serve 16 years, was the real culprit. The nature of the media focus on Knox allowed too light a sentence for her murderer.</p>
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<p>And she could have spent close to three decades in prison, slowly wilting away and seeing her parents sinking in poverty. Very easily!</p>
<p>She wasn’t unjustly imprisoned; she served four years, three of which for a crime she was found guilty of. And she’s still facing a slander case - she’s not squeaky clean by any means. </p>
<p>She’s had four more years of life than Kercher; that young girl was killed and Knox did some very stupid and foolish things to arouse suspicion. If she profits from that girls death it would be a betrayal of all common decency.</p>
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<p>It certainly isn’t the same; you wouldn’t be executed in Italy with no DNA evidence and if most of the witnesses retraced their evidence. The American media’s xenophobic attack on Italy’s judicial systems has been shocking and steeped in misinformation.</p>
<p>This is wonderful news. It always seemed to me that the case didn’t hang together. I am really glad she’s free. While the money won’t bring back roommate or the four years Amanda spent in prison, I hope there will be a book and/or movie deal as some sort of compensation.</p>
<p>she does not still face a slander case.</p>
<p>She was convicted for that, and charged 22,000 for it, but it was discharged based on the four years she spent in prison. (the slander case is fined, not prison, normally)</p>
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<p>Just as some opinions do seem to cross the barrier of all common decency. If you cared to respect the initial judgment, you should also respect this one.</p>
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<p>Well, we should all rejoice that the BBC must have provided a more objective coverage to its viewers and shown the prosecutorial behavior to be beyond criticism. It must be so nice to have all the answers and not have to speculate like the rest of the world.</p>
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<p>I understand that the case was covered differently in London than in the US and differently in Italy than in either of our countries.</p>
<p>I do not think a case built on bad forensics and unreliable witness testimony should stand anywhere.</p>
<p>As for the death penalty in the US, which has nothing to do with this particular case, I am opposed to it, 100%, since you chose to quote me, in your post.</p>
<p>ETA: if she does write a book, nobody in the world will be “forced” to buy it.</p>
<p>^^^^^ thank you xiggi</p>
<p>I’m very happy with this outcome.</p>
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<p>Yes she does, she was found guilty of slander against the man she accused. But she faces another slander case from the police who she accused of manhandling her. Whether or not she turns up for it is another matter.</p>
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<p>I do respect it; I’ve not said it was wrong… just that I hope she’s decent enough to not profit from the murder of her friend.</p>
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<p>That’s sort of like saying the Duke lacrosse players should have just sucked it up and be glad they were free even though they were traumatized by the prosecutor, the stripper, and their own school. </p>
<p>I hope Knox makes billions of dollars.</p>