Should the United States extradite Amanda Knox if the Italian government requests it?

[DanTex]

28. That depends who you ask.

People in the US think it's debunked because that's what the media says. People in Europe don't because that's what the media there says.

As far as the blade, yes, it was a small amount of DNA, but DNA is DNA, and it does match, so the amount doesn't really matter in terms of guilt, because small amounts of DNA that perfectly match somebody don't just appear on knives. But, it might matter as a matter of admissibility of evidence. The knife matches some of the victim's wounds but not others, but from the beginning the police believed there were multiple attackers.

There's more evidence, but there's none that places her in the room where the murder occurs. The bra clasp places her boyfriend there, not her. It did sit around for 2 months after the investigation. But (there's always a but...) it sat around in a sealed crime scene, so there really isn't any plausible way that would cause contamination unless the boyfriend snuck in and rubbed his hand on it. Unless, of course, it was somehow contaminated second-hand, although even then the duration of time isn't really the issue.

Rudy's DNA was all over the room, and he was found guilty because of that, but in his trial, it was found that he was only one of the attackers. So it's not an either-or thing.


On any of these points, you could go on the internet and find 50 pages of people arguing vociferously for one side or the other. Everything I've said has be rebutted 10 times over, and those rebuttals have been rebutted 10 times over, and so on. So I'm not trying to claim one side is right or the other. Just that there is a debate to be had.