[finton_the_toole]

(02-01-2014 12:12 PM)michelin Wrote:  

relevant:
http://www.philosophersmail.com/310114-tragedy-knox.php

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A terrifying but compelling possibility comes into view: normal people, people like her and people like you and me, are capable of doing very bad things indeed and we do them a little by accident, without quite meaning to.

This is IMV the most likely. She and her boyfriend were probably totally fucked up on drugs, were mucking around, things got heated with her flat mate, and it got out of control.

[DWF]

Here's Knox with her new boyfriend. If the Seattle PD is investigating any unsolved murders, they should start by interviewing this guy.

[roberto]

Chick is fucked in the head. That dude is whacko. He looks like the illegitimate offspring of Osama bin Laden and Vlad the Impaler.

[Capitán Peligroso]

^^^How far the mighty have fallen. I used to think the chick was pretty smooth looking, but then she cut off all her hair, got chubby, and boyfriended Duck Dynasty meets Hannibal Lecter.

[iknowexactly]

[quote='michelin' pid='643176' dateline='1391274726']
relevant:
http://www.philosophersmail.com/310114-tragedy-knox.php

[quote]A terrifying but compelling possibility comes into view: normal people, people like her and people like you and me, are capable of doing very bad things indeed and we do them a little by accident, without quite meaning to,
[/quote]

nah. anyone with any sense/normal, when someone gets the knife out, and is "playing" or "joking" you say "stop." If you don't , you're not the "normal" you're trying to sell.

then again, when some fuckwit lets the knife get near someone's throat, you say STOP again, louder.

The steps to negligent homicide--and certainly to murder 2-- aren't, by definition, blameless.

[Bushido]

Feminist journalist blames misogyny for the verdict against Knox.

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The brutal murder of a young woman in her own bedroom by a sexual predator is horrible to imagine. But the case of the British student Meredith Kercher, who was killed in Perugia more than six years ago, has been followed by one of the most protracted and tormenting legal processes in recent history.
Last week, an Italian court reinstated guilty verdicts on the victim's American flatmate, Amanda Knox, and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and yesterday the president of the Florence appeals court told an Italian newspaper the crime was the result of a series of coincidences. It might not have happened, said Alessandro Nencini, if Knox hadn't changed her mind about going to work that evening. He admitted this would be the most "controversial" part of the judgment.

It's worth recalling, at this point, that someone else was convicted of the murder five years ago. Copious amounts of forensic evidence implicated a young man called Rudy Guede, who left Italy after the attack and was arrested in Germany. He was convicted of sexual assault and murder in a fast-track procedure, and his sentence of 30 years was cut to 16 on appeal.

Most sex-attackers are men; Guede had Kercher's blood on his hands and left other evidence behind; there is no incontrovertible evidence placing Knox or Sollecito in the bedroom; forensic evidence cited by the prosecution was discredited at their successful appeal in 2011. Yet the Italian authorities have stood by an idea formed in the immediate aftermath of the killing, which is that a woman must have been the prime mover. The case long ago become a circus, with some British papers gleefully hailing the return of "Foxy Knoxy" after Thursday's verdict. At her original trial, this femme fatale supposedly had such power over two men who hadn't previously met that she was able to persuade them to take part in a murder influenced by black magic.

These were the fevered imaginings of a rank species of misogyny. Their origins lie in the infamous history of Perugia, described as the "epicentre" of 15th-century witch trials. Both sides in the case made the link, with one hostile lawyer describing Knox as a "diabolical she-devil". Five "witches" were burned to death in Perugia between 1445 and 1501; their male "accomplices" were spared on the grounds that they had been bewitched.

Now the Florence court has replaced the black magic motive favoured in Perugia with a row between Kercher and Knox over a dirty toilet. First it was witchcraft, now it's personal hygiene; if that seems a leap, the appeal judges haven't deviated from the prosecutors' original assumption in one crucial respect. They still seem to believe that a young American woman – not the man who left his DNA all over the scene – bears the greatest responsibility for a savage, sexually-motivated murder.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comm...01549.html

If feminists ever get complete control of the legal system then women won't ever be found guilty of any crime. All men will be guilty until proved innocent.

[samsamsam]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/27/mar...liberates/

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SEATTLE – Despite the murder case hanging over head, Amanda Knox has tried to lead a normal life in the more than three years since she was freed from an Italian prison: She recently got engaged and has started writing theater reviews and other articles for a weekly paper in her hometown.

Mostly left alone by the media in Seattle, the 27-year-old former exchange student completed her studies at the University of Washington and spends time with family and friends, all while observing from afar the legal proceedings that could result in an attempt to send her back to Italy.

An appeals court in 2011 cleared Knox in the slaying of British roommate Meredith Kercher and ordered her released after she had spent four years in prison. But Italy's highest court later overturned her acquittal, and Knox's case has slowly wound its way through the country's judicial system. She was convicted in absentia in 2014.

On Friday, judges on Italy's high Court of Cassation began deliberating whether to affirm her conviction, which could result in an extradition request from Italy for Knox.

She has said she would never willingly return to Italy.

Some woman on the news was blabbing about how the person who was murdered was a victim but Amanda Knox is also one because she still has this hanging over her.

I think that is just the American arrogance that annoys me. I love my country but just because your an American doesn't mean you are above another country's laws and process.

I also can't believe someone wants to marry a fat fuck of an accused murderer.

[Mentavious]

http://wapo.st/1xleuhK

Italian high court overturns her murder conviction!