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Italian court convicts Amanda Knox of murder

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I fully support this conviction. I watched the news reports on this trial. They showed Amanda Knox smiling and laughing in the court room. Excuse me? You're on trial for murder and you can't stop smiling? Sorry, but someone who was truly innocent, wouldn't be looking at these charges lightly, IMO. She cried when the verdict was read. Oh brother. I'm not sympathetic.

PERUGIA, Italy - American college student Amanda Knox was found guilty of murdering her British roommate and sentenced to 26 years in prison early Saturday after a year-long trial that gripped Italy and drew intense media attention

Italian court convicts Amanda Knox - Europe- msnbc.com
 
I fully support this conviction. I watched the news reports on this trial. They showed Amanda Knox smiling and laughing in the court room. Excuse me? You're on trial for murder and you can't stop smiling? Sorry, but someone who was truly innocent, wouldn't be looking at these charges lightly, IMO. She cried when the verdict was read. Oh brother. I'm not sympathetic.

Kangaroo court......
The legal system in Italy is stone age compared to ours....;)
There was little if any hard evidence....
Too much was based on her 'character', IMO
Especially for a jury that was not sequestered, given the media hoopla.....;)
 
Was the trial in English or Fascist?

err I mean Italian?
 
Mark the time and the date...I actually agree with my left wing friend aps (Virginia elected a Consvative for Governor, must be killing her).........I have been following this case since day one and Ms. Knox is guilty as hell.......She is a disgusting individual and should have been given the maximum sentence life without parole............
 
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I fully support this conviction. I watched the news reports on this trial. They showed Amanda Knox smiling and laughing in the court room. Excuse me? You're on trial for murder and you can't stop smiling? Sorry, but someone who was truly innocent, wouldn't be looking at these charges lightly, IMO. She cried when the verdict was read. Oh brother. I'm not sympathetic.

1. Chill
2. People who are in fear of bad things WILL find ways to relieve stress -- including laughing!
3. I would like to see the evidence
4. I wonder if she will appeal
 
Mark the time and the date...I actually agree with my left wing friend aps.......I have been following this case since day one and Ms. Knox is guilty as hell.......She is a disgusting individual and should have been given the maximum sentence life without parole............

How do you or your friend know she's guilty?

Have you seen the evidence? Have you interviewed Ms. Knox?
 
How do you or your friend know she's guilty?

Have you seen the evidence? Have you interviewed Ms. Knox?

I have followed the trial from day 1 and the evidence against her is overwhelming my left wing friend......
 
Mark the time and the date...I actually agree with my left wing friend aps (Virginia elected a Consvative for Governor, must be killing her).........I have been following this case since day one and Ms. Knox is guilty as hell.......She is a disgusting individual and should have been given the maximum sentence life without parole............

One wonders from the above statement by Navy Pride whether he has seen and read all the evidence or is he merely joining the Italian band wagon?
 
One wonders from the above statement by Navy Pride whether he has seen and read all the evidence or is he merely joining the Italian band wagon?

Just because she is and American does not mean she is innocent my left wing friend..............
 
I have followed the trial from day 1 and the evidence against her is overwhelming my left wing friend......

1. I am not a lefty
2. I will not believe that until I see the evidence
3. I want proof the chain of evidence was respected
4. I want copies of all Italian police work
5. I want to see EVERY LAST PIECE OF EVIDENCE
6. I want independant lab testing of all evidence

Also ... it's interesting that the seemingly patriotic right .... is so willing to throw an American citizen to the wolves ... based on a verdict in a kangaroo court.

I smell a double standard.
 
They didn't find any of her DNA at the bloody murder scene. How could that be???
 
They didn't find any of her DNA at the bloody murder scene. How could that be???


They did. Along with bloody footprints, and on the handle of a knife with her flatmates' blood on the blade.
 
Just because she is and American does not mean she is innocent my left wing friend..............

Two extremely simple points to make to your statement.
1) I am not now nor ever have been your friend.
Nor would I ever wish to be friends to such a person as bigoted as you.
2) I am not now nor ever have been a follower of Left wing Politics.

I am aware that anyone who may disagree with whatever comment you care to make is at least in your eyes a dyed in the wool communist.

This does not necessarily mean that they are in actual fact.
 
I've been following this. The prosecution's statements sold me on the girl's guilt.

The statement by the senator accusing the Italian justice system of anti-Americanism is way over the top. If you commit murder, you do the time. No extradition back to the U.S. for this one, especially given how heinous the crime scene was.
 
Two extremely simple points to make to your statement.
1) I am not now nor ever have been your friend.
Nor would I ever wish to be friends to such a person as bigoted as you.
2) I am not now nor ever have been a follower of Left wing Politics.

I am aware that anyone who may disagree with whatever comment you care to make is at least in your eyes a dyed in the wool communist.

This does not necessarily mean that they are in actual fact.

Here we go with the name calling and we on the right are suppose to be the intolerant ones.........:rofl
 
The case was almost solely based on circumstantial evidence.

However saying that, the way Knox acted just after the murder and the weeks and months after really put a doubt on her innocence. She did not act like someone who had just found her friend covered in blood. There was a report that she did freaking cartwheels at one point...She also blamed someone else off the bat, which very fast was proved to be an utter lie. On top of that she did actually confess at one point only to take the confession back and blame the Italian police for intimidation.

The Italian judicial system is strange I have to admit. They focused a lot on her character, basically painting her as a slut into hard sexual games. This of course is disputed by the parents and friends from the US who only know the "angel" side of Knox. Who knows, people tend to do different things once away from the control of home/family/parents.

But this is going to be appealed, but as I understand it, the guilty verdict will not change, only the length of the term.
 
I've been following the whole thing for months too and while there are definitely many things that point to all three suspects being involved in this murder, I don't think that the prosecution has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they're guilty. I'm especially doubtful of Rudy Guede's guilt. I think he's a coward and fled for fear he would be thought responsible for her death, but I really don't think he killed her.

As for Amanda and Raffaelle, the truth about their characters lies somewhere between the biased demonic portrayals of them in the Italian media and the even more biased "Amanda is a sweet, innocent all-American girl" in the US media. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Young people often behave very differently away from their families and away from home. These two are not sweet innocent angels. And if they really did kill this girl, their behavior throughout this whole thing is truly chilling.

My theory is that she died by accident. They were playing a dangerous game and it all went to hell in a split-second and they all panicked.
 
Mark the time and the date...I actually agree with my left wing friend aps (Virginia elected a Consvative for Governor, must be killing her).........I have been following this case since day one and Ms. Knox is guilty as hell.......She is a disgusting individual and should have been given the maximum sentence life without parole............

Actually, I'm not horrified by the election result. How much can he do in 4 years? Now, the loss of a bunch of seats in the delegates was disappointing. A smoking ban went through and is effective December 1, 2009, which was passed while a Democrat was in office. That is what I am still cheering about. We never thought a smoking ban would pass in Virginia....but it HAS!

I haven't read all the facts in the case lately. When it first came out, and I was reading the evidence against her, I thought she was guilty.
 
Thisa case was a sham from the Get go but hey what do you expect from Italy. Thi sis the Country that has said it will proscute any current and former CIA/DoD folks.

The United States needs to make it quite clear to Italy that 1. The Verdict needs to be set aside 2.Miss Knox released now not tommorrow or next week

If they don't meet this two then the USA will place a 100% Taffif on all Italian Items.

The so-called Court case was a joke the prosct. in his closing statement changed the murder time back a whole hour that alone should have cause a mistrail in any other Western Country that would have been grounds for a mistrail. The So-called DNA was never introduced nor was their any DNA showing that Miss Knox did the killing.

Whata Bloody Sham time for Mr. Obama to show some leadership and demand thaqt Miss Knox be turned over tot he US Emb.
 
You know what jumped out at me - the family trying to use the famous "that's not HER, that's not the type of person SHE is" as fact for her not committing the murder.

When I got knocked up in highschool my parents were mortified - that was't *me* - I didn't show a permiscuous interest in boys. I couldn't be pregnant!

:shrug: the feelings of family don't mean a damn thing - if it did then quite a few serial killers wouldn't be imprisoned - or dead.
 
Kangaroo court......
The legal system in Italy is stone age compared to ours....;)
Where an OJ Simpson can "walk" ??
There was little if any hard evidence.... That we at Debate Politics have seen.
Too much was based on her 'character', IMO
Especially for a jury that was not sequestered, given the media hoopla.....;)This is a very good point; is the Italian media any more responsible than ours?

How do you know these things?? A conclusion is reached based on what?
I'd love to see sodium pentathol(sp) used and sophisticated lie detectors employed.
And the death penalty must go.
 
Not smiling anymore is she?

I hope the sentence is a measure of comfort to the victims family.
 
Here we go with the name calling and we on the right are suppose to be the intolerant ones.........:rofl
Intolerance, bigotry, disrespect infect both the left, middle and right.
This should not be news.
Its the price a man pays for being a man.
 
You know what jumped out at me - the family trying to use the famous "that's not HER, that's not the type of person SHE is" as fact for her not committing the murder.

When I got knocked up in highschool my parents were mortified - that was't *me* - I didn't show a permiscuous interest in boys. I couldn't be pregnant!

:shrug: the feelings of family don't mean a damn thing - if it did then quite a few serial killers wouldn't be imprisoned - or dead.

I do not understand why some in the US media see her as innocent. There is even a defense fund for her.

She lied in court, her and the BF changed their story many times, apparently 'cheered' when she heard meredith was dead, claimed she was beaten/abused in jail, confessed then took it back and they found DNA evidence of her blood mixed with the victims in more than 3 locations in the scene of the crime and house not to mention her footsteps in blood ....
Oh and lets not forget the best part trying to frame a innocent man, stage a burglary to try and derail the investigation and draw attention away from them :/

She needs to rot in jail and her family ought to shut up and stop making it harder on the victims family by bull****ing about how she is a 'nice person'. Nice people don't kill
 
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