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In reply to the discussion: Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito lose Meredith Kercher murder appeal [View all]pnwmom
(110,261 posts)Of course she IS suffering. Many legal experts expect that she will be extradited. Why wouldn't that fear cause her to suffer?
And she doesn't have to feel guilty about Raffaele to feel pain over what he's going through because he wouldn't turn on her.
And what about the costs to her family? She'll have years more of legal bills, and she's had to spend most of her advance paying for the legal bills of the past 6 years.
Of course, Meredith's family has suffered, but that isn't Amanda's fault. They didn't attend the appeals trial, so they have no idea what the evidence was that was presented. They've allowed themselves to be completely bamboozled by the attorney they hired, who cares only about his payoff at the end. Remember, he's encouraged them to sue Amanda for millions -- he wants all her earnings forever, basically.
If Meredith's parents are really her advocates, then they should stop fighting to put innocent people in prison (and to take their future earnings) and ask why the person whose DNA was inside and on her body, whose fingerprints were left in Meredith's blood, was able to get a reduced sentence and will only serve 8 years before being released this year?
Everybody knows that Meredith has friends and family who cared for her deeply. But that doesn't give them the right to attack innocent people, or to be purposefully blind. They've made the choice not to learn what happened in the appeals trial. And just today, Stephanie was quoted as saying that they might never know who killed her sister. So why fight so hard to get their pound of flesh from Amanda and Raffaele?