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In reply to the discussion: Amanda Knox will again go before an Italian court [View all]pnwmom
(109,068 posts)People crack under the intense pressure of interrogations, and Amanda's had been going on for 4 days. Yes, in the middle of the night, after 4 days of interrogations, hungry and tired and without an attorney, she finally broke down and signed the statement the police wanted her to sign. Which made no sense because she KNEW that Lumumba was working at his bar that night. And she was NOT drug addled when she signed the paper -- she was drug tested and it had been days since she had had any pot. What she was, was exhausted, hungry, and at the end of her rope.
Is there a reason you mention that statement and not the one a few hours later -- after she'd finally had some sleep -- when she said the first statement didn't seem real to her and shouldn't be relied upon?
And the High Court ruled that neither of her statements were admissible. So they weren't supposed to be part of the evidence considered by the jury -- even though the same jury members were allowed to see them for the concurrent civil trial.
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