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<p>The slander she was convicted of was against another man who she accused of killing Kertcher; there was no excuse for this other than her own self interest. The slander against the police is a separate issue altogether.</p>
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<p>That’s normal stuff that defense lawyers do - I don’t know if she did it or her lawyers did it but she shouldn’t have said anything - of course it appears that the lawyers and prosecutors encouraged her to talk.</p>
<p>Yes, her family is reported to be in financial ruins, I don’t know if bankruptcy will result or not. Why is that hard to believe? They aren’t people of means, just ordinary people who work in middle class jobs. Amanda had used her own savings to finance her year abroad.</p>
<p>Right. So, do the police now go to jail for the slander of accusing her of murder? No. It’s a ludicrous charge. </p>
<p>In Italy, they can imprison a suspect for one year without even bringing charges.</p>
<p>This prosecutor also has a history of insane conspiracy theories, including the one where he cooked up some satanic ritual theory for a serial murder everyone else believed was the work of one person.</p>
<p>Sounds strikingly similar in my opinion.</p>
<p>Does he go to jail for slander? Twice?</p>
<p>Come ON.</p>
<p>I am so happy for Amanda and her family. I had a hard time believing that a young woman - any young woman - would be involved in a crime like this. Women are much less likely to commit violent crimes than men. Logic didn’t support the initial verdict, much less the DNA. </p>
<p>I do hope the family can earn some money. At some point in the future, life will get back to some version of normal, and Amanda will have to live with the fact that because of her, the family is broke. Of course, it was worth it to the family, but I think the expenditure of money will burden her at some point. So bring on those book revenues.</p>
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<p>The most stupid and foolish thing she did was trust the Italian police. </p>
<p>I’m so glad she was freed.</p>
<p>As for the victim’s family, of course my heart breaks for them. However, they do know who murdered their daughter and I hope they find some measure of peace in that.</p>
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<p>The prosecutors behavior was beyond bizarre. Are you really arguing that that is not true? That it’s xenophobic to take issue with a deeply troubled man? An American prosecutor with the same record would be savaged by the American press.</p>
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<p>Look at Nifong and the City of Durham. He’s disbarred and facing lawsuits. The City is facing lawsuits too. Disbar them, prosecute them for misconduct, whatever.</p>
<p>There was a police officer that interrogated a suspect in a conference room and basically made a statement to him and then denied it in court. The defense lawyer asked him on the witness stand if he made the statement to the defendant and he denied it. Then he asked the police officer if he said A. Then B. Then C. The judge asked where it was going and the defense stated that they had a recording of the conversation. The defendant turned on his MP3 player to record.</p>
<p>The Judge then warned the police officer that he should retain counsel and was charged with perjury.</p>
<p>It just never made any sense at all. It is not a good moment for Italy.</p>
<p>Usually, I groan when notorious people profit from their notoriety but in this case I truly hope she makes a gazillion dollars, shares with her steadfast family and lives happily ever after.</p>
<p>Count me as another one who hopes she makes zillions.</p>
<p>I also hope she makes a bazillion! How many is a brazilian anyway, lol!</p>
<p>And her co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito never gets a mention though he suffered the exact same injustice. Fickle? Or an example of a pervading social prejudice?</p>
<p>probably more that we’re in the United States, and it’s been her story we’ve been watching. And her story the media was watching, as well. But, yes, I’m very, very glad it is over for all of them. I was glad that the jury, who could have either decided there was not enough evidence to uphold the conviction or else that they were innocent of the crime, decided on innocent of the crime.</p>
<p>I saw an interview of the professor who’s work on the DNA in this case led to the eventual decision to allow her to appeal the guilty verdict. He said he was appalled that she was found guilty based on the DNA. He said that the prosecution used an unacceptable standard to test the DNA, that they basically just kept lowering the standard until they got the result they wanted. </p>
<p>I have no problem with her profiting from this terrible ordeal.</p>
<p>In his statement to the court today, I was touched by Sollecito’s remarks about Amanda. It was alamost more about her than himself.</p>
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<p>Well, perhaps we should also rejoice that our xenophobic media does not engage in ultra-creative reporting. Not hard to figure out why opinions diverge on both sides of the pond. Seems that the reporter Nick Pisa might have interned with Nancy Grace! </p>
<p>The Mail’s online site inexplicably carried a story announcing Knox’s appeal against her murder conviction of British student Kercher had been rejected.</p>
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<p>[Amanda</a> Knox Verdict: Daily Mail?s Website Posts Wrong Decision - The Hollywood Reporter](<a href=“http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amanda-knox-verdict-daily-mail-243191]Amanda”>Amanda Knox Verdict: Daily Mail’s Website Posts Wrong Decision – The Hollywood Reporter)</p>
<p>PS You can still see the original page in Google Search. This is the removed link:
<a href=“News Headlines | Today's UK & World News | Daily Mail Online”>News Headlines | Today's UK & World News | Daily Mail Online;
<p>What do you expect from a media environment where hacking into private phone systems is business as usual?</p>
<p>The Mail previously reported that the list of sexual partners that Amanda wrote, were liasons that she had during her short time in Italy. With reporting like that, no wonder people react like Dionysus.</p>
<p>With a name like dionysus…it’s not unexpected to believe in this type of crime, I mean, seriously. The only name that would be more apt would be Bachus. Just cuz he’s roman.</p>
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<p>This is interesting, why do you find it so hard to believe a young woman could be responsible for such a crime? If she was a man would you still have believed so implicitly in her innocence? It seems to me that you and so many others are guilty of the exact same thing for which you blasted the prosecution and Italian press for. She looks innocent so she must be, right?</p>
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