Amanda Knox Not Guilty

[ThomWV]

Verdict just announced.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

1. disgraceful...

maybe I should get my US citizenship so I know the media in this country will exert enough pressure to get me off

Shame shame shame

[catbyte]

2. What made you think she was guilty? The corrupt prosecutor? Tainted DNA?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. self delete

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

5. I am an Italian citizen and I was disgusted by the attitudes by some

on DU against Italy and Italians in general...
Amanda got off simply because of the PR and political pressures. This despite the eyewitness, a homeless guy, who saw her and her boyfriend at 8:30 p.m. in the basketball court near the apartment at the same time they were supposedly in a different place. This despite dear Amanda and Raffaele buying bleach. This despite Amanda accusing a poor immigrant of this crime.

[devilgrrl]

13. I couldn't agree more!

I glad that everyone is pleased that self-centered little puke is free..

[uppityperson]

17. Self-centeredness is a jailable offense? Huh

[devilgrrl]

19. I'm sorry we don't agree on this.

eom

[uppityperson]

27. even assholes deserve to be jailed on the merits, not personalities.

If you disagree, you disagree. Please don't be sorry that I think this though. I might be on a jury some day.

[jberryhill]

22. You are disgusted by the ruling of an Italian appeals court?

Take it up with the Italian legal system, then.

[butterfly77]

33. They were paid off..

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[krawhitham]

23. The Homeless guy that testified in 3 other cases for the corrupt prosecutor

What is he the Forrest Gump of homeless people

[stevenleser]

31. A couple of points...

1. Buying bleach? I dont usually do my own laundry (most folks in NYC use services) but I have on occasion and have bought bleach to do it. I swear to you that none of those times involved covering up a killing.

2. You cite an eyewitness that said they were in the neighborhood at the time. Do you know how notoriously unreliable eyewitness testimony is? The innocence project here in the US is constantly getting convictions reversed from DNA evidence that is completely exculpatory and in each of those convictions there were one or more eyewitnesses fingering the innocent person.

[Horse with no Name]

35. I probably should go into hiding

I had some great coupons and bought a few bottles of bleach and some febreze.

I'm probably on a watch list for that...

[11 Bravo]

8. Do you know something we don't? Because from what I've heard, the entire prosecution stunk ...

from the beginning.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

12. You heard that from the US press perhaps

because if you read the Italian press and the British press and the French press and (insert country here) press, you probably would have gotten a different impression. NO ONE in the US media talked about the homeless guy who saw the two of them in a place and time where they said they were not. NO ONE in the US media discussed how she and Raffaele were desperately looking for shops selling bleach early in the morning.

And why did she accuse Mr. Lumumba????

[MineralMan]

14. Uff da! You really don't like her, do you?

On what are you basing your belief that she is guilty? Were you there? Did you sit through all the court activity. Or do you just know she's guilty because your intuition is never wrong? The court has decided. Case closed. ora basta!

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

20. I read the case facts in more outlets than just the U.S. media

Troy Davis got convicted on faultier evidence than this. In Amanda's case, there was an eyewitness, a homeless guy who saw the two of them near the apartment at 8:30 pm when they said they were watching a movie and using a computer in Raffaele's apartment, which computer forensics proved was not true.

Moreover, Amanda pointed her finger at Mr. Lumumba, an immigrant and her occasional employer, destroying his reputation (she was convicted for slander for this). Why would an innocent person do this?

And before you say I have no intimate knowledge of the Italian judicial system, I do.. a lot. And before you inevitably bring up the "Italians are corrupt" meme, no more so than cops in NOLA or NYC... In other words, you'll find bad apples everywhere, so glass houses/stones and all that.

[MineralMan]

21. So you only have information from the press.

Never mind. I though you had been in court all this time and listened to every bit of evidence. I guess you know no more than the rest of us.

[JuniperLea]

28. But the press wouldn't lead us astray!

My heavens! Everything we know about that case comes from the press!

:rofl:

[jberryhill]

24. You are the one implying Italian courts are corrupt

You seem to have a problem with the fact that an Italian court reached a verdict of not guilty.

So, tell us about the corruption of this court.

[MineralMan]

9. And you know she's guilty how, exactly?

Please fill us in from your extensive knowledge of the case.

[alphafemale]

15. She's an unrepentant sexually active young woman.

Not a thing looked kindly on in some countries.


WITCH!!!!!


Glad she's coming home.

[MineralMan]

16. Sounds like good qualities to me. I've always appreciated

that quality in a woman. :rofl: :hide:

[calendargirl]

25. OH yes,

Because Italians are such Puritans. <eyeroll>

[JuniperLea]

32. Shame on you for casting aspersions on Italians!

I'm not even Italian and I'm seriously disgusted by this comment! What a filthy, bigoted comment!

[calendargirl]

34. Bigoted how, exactly? nt

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[liskddksil]

3. YES! nt

[Bake]

6. Justice is done. Finally.

:hi:

Bake

[qanda]

7. I am so happy for her and her family

There is no way in the world she should have ever been convicted.

[ileus]

10. Free at last, free at last....

[Jacobin]

11. Wow. I didn't see that coming

She dodged a fricking bullet

Good on Italian courts for admitting a mistake. Rarely happens in this country, as prosecutors never/rarely admit to mistakes, even when proven

[B2G]

18. Thank god

Get her on a plane pronto.

[JuniperLea]

26. Unless you were there and heard all of the evidence...

You don't know shit.

This is really bogus and speaks terribly of DU.

So many are so quick to form an opinion based on zero facts. Pathetic.

Edited to say... my comment is not directed at the OP, but at the ridiculousness I'm seeing posted by so many cocksure people who have ZERO information from which to form an opinion.

Jesus God... so fucking stupid.

[butterfly77]

29. She's guilty..

[progressoid]

30. Well great. Now the media has something to talk about since it's been such a slow news cycle.

:eyes:

[Pithlet]

37. Good news! n/t