Amanda Knox, ex-boyfriend found guilty in murder retrial

[SLM]

Amanda Knox, ex-boyfriend found guilty in murder retrial

Naomi O'Leary, Reuters

Jan 30, 2014 , Last Updated: 4:51 PM ET

FLORENCE, Italy - American student Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty for the second time on Thursday of the 2007 murder of Briton Meredith Kercher, in a retrial that reversed an earlier appeal judgment.
The verdict, after 12 hours of deliberations, confirmed Knox and Sollecito's original 2009 conviction. Knox's sentence was increased to 28 years and six months and Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. Knox did not attend the retrial, however, having gone home to the United States after the previous appeal.
"We didn't know what to expect. We are still in shock," said Stephanie Kercher, Meredith's sister, after the ruling was read.
Sollecito's lawyer Giulia Bongiorno confirmed that her client would appeal to Italy's highest court, and Knox's lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova said he was "stunned". The court will publish the reasons for its verdict in 90 days.
If final appeals are heard, neither Knox nor Sollecito would face arrest or jail time until a final verdict by the highest court.
Knox is in the United States and would have to be extradited to serve her sentence. The court banned Sollecito from leaving Italy.
Kercher, 21, was found stabbed to death in her bedroom in the apartment she shared with Knox in the Umbrian city of Perugia in 2007, where the two were students.
Investigators quickly pointed to Knox and Sollecito as suspects, building a narrative that the two killed Kercher in a sex game gone awry. Both were convicted in 2009 and spent four years in prison.
They were cleared on appeal, but Italy's highest court last year quashed that verdict due to "inconsistencies" and ordered a repeat of the appeal trial. It was this trial that concluded on Thursday.

Amanda Knox, ex-boyfriend found guilty in murder retrial

For whatever good it does, she's back home now.

 

[karrie]

I'm eager to see why they found this way

 

[WLDB]

One circle complete. Time for another go around.

 

[SLM]

I'm eager to see why they found this way

Me too. I didn't follow it all that closely but seemed to me like the authorities kind of bungled the case from the get go.

 

[gopher]

I am able to read some Italian and followed the case in the Repubblica where Knox was portrayed as a sheep in wolf's clothes. She has cut her hair to give herself a more wholesome appearance but if you'd ask my opinion I'll say she's guilty as sin. This based on all that was said during the days of her trial. It will be interesting to see if she is extradited to Italy for execution of sentence.

 

[damngrumpy]

She will never set foot in Italy and they knew that when they let her leave.
This is little more than window dressing besides they have the boyfriend.

 

[gopher]

I'm surprised that all the law and order people out there aren't demanding that she be arrested and forced to serve out her sentence like everybody else.

the picture of innocence and wholesomeness [not]:

 

[spaminator]

she looked better as foxy knoxy.

 

[damngrumpy]

An Italian court is not the most fair one in the land. or any land. Remember the
former Prime Minister Burlisconi now there was a crook who was guilty of almost
everything never saw the inside of a jail.

 

[karrie]

Unlike canada or the US, where we don't have issues with corrupt politicos and elites. Phew!

 

[gopher]

On another website which I am not going to name there are several rather chauvinistic Americans who believe Knox is the picture of angelic perfection. This despite her pointing the finger at an innocent black man Patrick Lumumba who spent several weeks in jail and was terrorized by white prisoners - so much so that he was in fear for his life. Thankfully he had a alibi (he was the tavern owner and there were plenty of witnesses who testified that he was working at night during the time of the crime) but it still took nearly three weeks for him to be released. He sued and was given financial compensation for the trauma he experienced in prison. But how can anyone say Knox is such an angel when she was so willing to put an innocent man in prison and face death for a crime he did not commit?

SEND HER BACK!

 

[bill barilko]

SEND HER BACK!

They won't-her parents have spent over a million dollars spreading propaganda re : her innocence.

 

[spaminator]

http://abc.go.com/shows/2020/listing/2020-21-amanda-knox-guilty-again

 

[spaminator]

Amanda Knox acquitted of slander charges against Italian police
Reuters
First posted: Thursday, January 14, 2016 04:54 PM EST | Updated: Thursday, January 14, 2016 04:59 PM EST
ROME - An Italian court acquitted American Amanda Knox of slander charges brought after she said police coerced her to name the person who murdered her British flatmate Meredith Kercher, according to her Italian lawyer.
Knox was initially convicted of the stabbing along with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. They were both definitively cleared of the charges last year.
However, Knox was convicted of falsely accusing Congolese barman Patrick Lumumba for the 2007 crime, and was sentenced to time served because she had already spent about four years in an Italian jail.
Knox later said she fingered Lumumba for the crime because police "threatened" her and she was under severe mental strain after many hours of interrogation, which prompted the police officers who conducted questioning to sue her for slander.
"Today she was acquitted of the slander charge," lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova told Reuters by phone.
The brutality of the attack on 21-year-old Kercher, alleged sex games and multiple trials provided fodder for tabloids on both sides of the Atlantic and inspired books and films.
It also shone an uncomfortable spotlight on Italy's judicial system.
Amanda Knox acquitted of slander charges against Italian police | World | News |

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

If you want some insight into the Italian justice system, I would like to recommend a book called: THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE written by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi. Douglas Preston is best known for writing murder mysteries with Lincoln Child, but this book is a recounting of a series of murders committed in Florence by serial killer who was never brought to justice.

Mario Spezi, was a crime beat reporter in Florence who investigated the murders and collaborated with Douglas Preston on an investigative true crime novel. What is fascinating is that the prosecutor and police were exposed as being completely incompetent by Preston and Spezi and so in retaliation they accused Spezi of being the Monster of Florence and Preston of fabricating evidence. Preston would be forced out of the country, while Spezi was held in jail and his home and computers were ransacked. The same Prosecutor who went originally went after Amanda Knox was the prosecutor who accused Mario Spezi and Douglas Preston were a conspiratorial duo with connections to the Monster of Florence killings. Spezi would later be released, but the case remains open to this day.

Fantastic read and an interesting commentary on the Italian Judicial System.