JCC Amanda Knox is Fluent in Italian

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LOL.

 

A UK TV presenter is in trouble for remarks he made on his show regarding Knox

 

how exactly is he in trouble? because some arm chair warriors got pissed off on twitter? lol
Remember this is the same Mathew Wright who "accidentally" revealed the John Leslie rape allegations. These are just randomly funny remarks he made.

 

I asked myself the same question.

The answer was 'yes', btw.

 

i dont understand why this thread needed four pages. it pretty much ended with this first reply

 

It's as funny as 'your mama' joke, or a Dave Coulier stand up routine.

 

I like that this thread got bumped with an Ace Attorney image.

No, seriously, I do.

 

Well, Knox and Sollecito were finally acquitted by the highest Italian court in Rome yesterday. About time. When push comes to shove, there was no physical evidence linking them to the crime, and they were essentially convicted because they behaved "oddly" in the days after the murder. Not exactly the Italian legal system's finest hour

A good summary from the Economist:

Innocente

The overdue acquittal of Amanda Knox exposes glaring flaws in Italy's justice system

Mar 28th 2015 | ROME | Europe
IT WAS every parent's most horrifying study-abroad nightmare come true. The victim was a British student, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, found dead in her room in the Italian university city of Perugia in 2007. Her killer, an immigrant from the Ivory Coast named Rudy Guede, was convicted in 2008 after police matched him with a handprint in Ms Kercher’s blood and multiple DNA samples retrieved at the scene. But before police had identified the evidence incriminating Mr Guede, they had also arrested Ms Kercher’s American flatmate, Amanda Knox, and Ms Knox’s Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.
Instead of simply releasing Ms Knox and Mr Sollecito, police and a succession of prosecutors concocted a string of improbable scenariosattempting to link them to the killing as well. At first the couple were supposed to have joined Mr Guede in a satanic ritual; later it was depicted as an assisted rape that ended in murder. On March 27th, after a pre-trial hearing, a trial, two appeals and a retrial, the judges of Italy’s highest court put an end to the case and to the prolonged mental suffering of the two young defendants. The Court of Cassation in Rome found Ms Knox and Mr Sollecito not guilty on the grounds that they had “not committed the act”. Italian law recognises different levels of acquittal; this is the most categorical.
Ms Knox had risked a sentence of 28 years and six months, while Mr Sollecito faced 25 years. Each spent four years in jail before being released after their initial acquittal, in 2011. Ms Knox has been home in America ever since, fearing an Italian extradition request. She need no longer worry.
If there is a lesson to be drawn from this sorry affair it is that the Italian system of criminal justice urgently needs an overhaul. The former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi,repeatedly said as much. But as a subject of multiple investigations himself, his personal interest in discrediting the courts vitiated his arguments and delayed change.
Italy’s criminal justice system is the product of a reform that stopped halfway. A law introduced in 1989 was meant to replace the country’s traditional inquisitorial system with an adversarial one. But it remains a clumsy mix. Of particular relevance to the Kercher affair was that the reform all but abolished discretion as to which cases should be brought to court. Whatever view is taken of the evidence—and there will always be those who believe that Ms Knox and her former boyfriend were angel-faced killers—the investigation was marked by grave irregularities. In many other systems, the case would never have gone beyond the committal stage.
Pivotal to the evidence against Ms Knox was a statement she made to police in which she said her flatmate had been killed by another African, the owner of a bar where she worked. In the statement, which she retracted soon afterwards, she said she had been in the house at the time and had covered her ears to shut out Ms Kercher’s screams. But her statement was made without access to a lawyer at 5.45am, after hours of unrecorded questioning in a language which, at that time, she barely understood—without the assistance of a professional interpreter.
The statement was ruled inadmissible in her murder trial. Yet it cropped up repeatedly as part of a suit for slander brought by the bar owner that was allowed to be joined to the murder case. Meanwhile, a central piece of evidence in the case against Mr Sollecito was a bra fastener belonging to Ms Kercher on which was found a (contested) trace of his DNA. But it was not discovered and bagged until more than seven weeks after the murder.
When will criminal justice in Italy get the reform it needs? Matteo Renzi’s government is busy with a major judicial overhaul, but of the civil-justice system, not the criminal one. It is also in a dire state, and one can understand Mr Renzi's decision to prioritise it: the civil-justice system's poor condition represents an obstacle to much-needed foreign investment in the Italian economy. The criminal-justice system, however flawed, will have to wait.

 

i don't know a lot about the case but the last time this all made headlines she flat out stated she would never go back no matter what they decided. So had they found her guilty again she might have become a fugitive.