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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Italy's Highest Court Overturns Amanda Knox Murder Conviction [View all]Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)But it ain't all over. On the civil end there are those remaining issues of forced confession/confessions. For example ,the pub owner
who was implicated or said to have had some type of connection to the crime committed as it will appear committed to paper
and introduced as evidence at trial. That means the matters of police corruption/forced confession statements and prosecution's tampering with evidence,fabricating
evidence, misrepresenting facts and statements all of which connect into civil suits.And the cops were servants to the prosecutor.-Not all of them but some of them. The pub owner filed civil suit in Italy years ago.Actually during the first trial.
Those two extra years added on to Amanda Knox's 26 year sentence. Actually at that point in the proceedings it became clear that the prosecutor over there was on a self proclaimed mission which lead to suspicion of police methods of interrogation were most likely terroristic -more-so a likeness to water boarding.Grant it terroristic is a hard choice of words given the political climate regarding
global terrorism ,however fact is she was terrorized.
My suspicion at the time of the charge placed against her for falsifying a statement implicating the pub owner of having involvement
in the crime is that ,that was additional punishment to the charges for not having cooperated with the police forced confession.
That meant the prosecutor had long since decided to make her guilty by every and any means available to him.
The truth is they decided they could not afford the truth be known ,in Italy or elsewhere,so they decided to throw the american under the bus, make her the sacrificial lamb.
Think about it, a known thieving ,drug dealing drifter in a little old Italian collage town with a number of foreign exchange students
coming and going- why who would sent their children to such a place that will allow that sort of thing to go on.
And the Italian people would be at high alarm.
To the prosecutor it seemed a practical political choice. And he must have figured the political winds were with him given the
political/diplomatic standing between the U.S. and Italy. Aside from that Italy is much closer to England or the UK through the EU. Practical it
just must have seemed to them.
She is free now, and it came at a high price.