Amanda Knox is returning to Italy to speak at the Italian Innocence Project,

[pnwmom]

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modeled after the Innocence Project here in America, to which Amanda has devoted herself after being released from 4 years of false imprisonment for murder.

Link to tweet

Amanda Knox
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@amandaknox
The Italy Innocence Project didn't yet exist when I was wrongly convicted in Perugia. I'm honored to accept their invitation to speak to the Italian people at this historic event and return to Italy for the first time.https://

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/24/688133135/italy-ordered-to-pay-damages-to-amanda-knox

A top European court has found faults in how Italian police initially questioned Amanda Knox, an American who was imprisoned for nearly four years in Italy after her roommate was killed, and ordered Italy to pay her damages.

"Ms Knox had been particularly vulnerable, being a foreign young woman, 20 at the time, not having been in Italy for very long and not being fluent in Italian," the European Court of Human Rights said in a statement Thursday.

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Authorities also denied Knox her right to a lawyer, the court concluded, and did not prove that they "had not irreparably undermined the fairness of the proceedings as a whole."

[exboyfil]

1. They have a different attitude

on double jeopardy. I don't think I would ever set foot in that country again.

[pnwmom]

2. I wouldn't feel like going back there, either. Hopefully it will be a healing event. n/t

[tblue37]

15. My sentiments exactly. nt

[pdxflyboy]

3. I have the same feeling.

I keep thinking they will be waiting for her with handcuffs.

[maxsolomon]

5. Depends if Perugia still has the same Prosecutor

I don't think she's going to Perugia, and I presume there has been assurances from the Federal Govt.

[LisaM]

4. I don't think she should go back there; I don't know why she is.

Without in the least excusing the Italian justice system, and the process by which they tried her, I think there's something a little strange about Amanda Knox.

Curious what the Kercher family thinks, too.

[helpisontheway]

7. I have always thought she was a very strange individual

I don’t know if she was guilty or not but something about her bothers me. Regardless, the trial and then retails were ridiculous. There is no way I would ever return. I actually watched a 20/20 episode about her case the other night. She said something about it not feeling full circle unless she returned there. Whatever...she should be happy that she was able to leave and leave it at that..

[pnwmom]

10. She is a genuinely nice, intelligent person. My son took a small class with her.

He said the only thing that surprised him about her was seeing how petite she was.

[Baltimike]

6. This is a very bad idea, and she is stupid to do it. nt

[StarfishSaver]

9. I don't think it's fair to call her "stupid" to do this

We don't know all of the details, so none of us is in any position to know whether this is a "good idea" and we certainly don't know if her decision to do it makes her "stupid."

[LisaL]

14. If Italy doesn't recognize double jeopardy, what else would you call going back there?

[pnwmom]

16. She has already gone through their 3 trial process. The second trial would be considered

double jeopardy in the US. The third was an appeal at the top court in the land -- and they ruled that she was INNOCENT. (They could have ruled that she was not guilty, but they took it a step farther.)

And since then, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy had failed to protect her civil rights by not giving her a lawyer or independent interpreter in the first trial, and Italy will be paying her a small fine.

I think she's safe going back there. I wouldn't want to if I were her, but maybe she thinks this will be healing . . . She didn't blame all Italians for what happened to her -- just the ones directly involved.

[StarfishSaver]

17. I would call it her choice based on information on don't know

For example, we have no idea whether she and/or the State Department have an worked out arrangements with the Italian government to ensure she's under no threat of arrest on her trip.

But calling a woman you don't know stupid because she is doing something under circumstances that you know little or nothing about is beyond the pale.

Considering she doesn't know you (or me, for that matter) from Adam, what we think of her matters nothing to her. But I still think it's a rather nasty thing to say

[StarfishSaver]

8. I heard her speak a few months ago at an Innocence Project event and it completely changed my view

about her. She's very committed to this issue and I was really impressed with her.

[pnwmom]

11. My son took a class with her at the U. He waited till the very last day

of the class to tell me, because he didn't want any questions, LOL.

He said she was one of the most thoughtful students in the class, which didn't surprise me.

[StarfishSaver]

12. That doesn't surprise me

And I was one of those who just assumed that, even if she hadn't murdered her friend, she just was a privileged party girl who got herself in a mess of her own doing.

I was wrong.

[LisaL]

13. I sure as hell wouldn't go back there if I were her.

[MiniMe]

21. I'm with you

[mshasta]

18. why --why

going back to a country where they hate her guts

[pnwmom]

19. To give support to Italy's Innocence Project, just as Amanda works for the Innocence Project here.nt

[Xolodno]

20. I commend her.

Most would probably avoid the country like the plague after that ordeal.

Side note...can we actually believe we are talking about a western European country with a worse justice system than ours? It boggles the mind.