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12-04-2009, 02:30 PM
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| Amanda Knox Guilty!
Not sure if you guys remember this case, but this chick was in Italy for school and her roommate got murdered and Italy has been saying that she was the cause all throughout this time
American Media has flocked to the defense of the Amanda Knox (typical)
She's been found guilty now along with her Boyfriend, she's going away for a long time
and they also fined her http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/04/...ial/index.html Quote:
Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- An Italian jury has found American student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty in the stabbing death of British exchange student Meredith Kercher.
Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison and Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.
The two were convicted on all charges except theft.
Knox, wearing a lime jacket, her hair in a single braid, began to sob -- her sniffles and sobs punctuating the otherwise silent courtroom -- as the judge read the verdict quietly, without expression.
Few of the eight jurors looked at her. Six of the jurors were wearing red, white and green sashes -- the colors of Italy's flag.
Sollecito's stepmother cried out his name twice as her son and Knox were led from the court.
Both Knox and Sollecito will appeal the verdicts, attorneys said.
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Knox and Sollecito were charged with murder and sexual violence in the November 2007 stabbing death of Meredith Kercher. Knox and Kercher, both studying abroad, were roommates. A third suspect was found guilty in a separate trial.
Watch live coverage of the verdict from Perugia, Italy, on CNN TV and CNN.com.
Prosecutors argued Seattle, Washington native Amanda Knox was a resentful American so angry with her British roommate that she exacted revenge during a twisted sex misadventure at their home two years ago.
They said Knox directed Sollecito and another man infatuated with her, Rudy Guede, to hold Kercher down as Knox played with a knife before slashing Kercher's throat.
Defense lawyers argued that Guede, who was convicted in a separate fast-track trial and is currently appealing his conviction, was the sole killer. On Thursday, Knox took the stand for a third time in the Perugia courtroom, telling jurors that she is not a "killer" who stabbed her former roommate.
"They say that I am calm. I am not calm," Knox said in Italian. "I fear to lose myself, to have the mask of the killer forced upon me. I fear to be defined as someone I am not."
Prosecutors touted an airtight case.
See the evidence that convicted Knox
They argued DNA on Kercher's bra clasp belonged to Sollecito. And the alleged murder weapon, a 6 ½-inch kitchen knife taken from Sollecito's home, had the DNA of Knox on the handle and Kercher on the blade, prosecutors said.
During the trial, the defense cast doubt on the knife evidence, arguing it doesn't match the wounds on Kercher's body.
And they said the bra clasp with Sollecito's DNA on it was left at the crime scene for weeks and is so contaminated that the evidence can't be considered credible.
Knox's family has argued she has been the victim of character assassination.
Members of Kercher's family have declined repeated CNN requests for comment.
Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini accused the defense of "lynching" the Italian police who worked on the case.
Knox and Sollecito have been jailed for more than two years. The trial began in January in Perugia, a university town about 115 miles (185 kilometers) north of Rome.
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12-04-2009, 03:47 PM
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I wonder if they serve spaghetti or pizza in Italian prisons. Might not be so bad.
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12-04-2009, 04:12 PM
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well considering how crazy Italian chicks are.... the ones who are criminals must be insane
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12-04-2009, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by StylinRed  well considering how crazy Italian chicks are.... the ones who are criminals must be insane | ?????
It was an American female and her Italian bf that were convicted for the murder.
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12-04-2009, 04:48 PM
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im talking about what its gonna be like in an italian female prison, in reply to the what food is gonna be like in prison
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12-04-2009, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Roach I wonder if they serve spaghetti or pizza in Italian prisons. Might not be so bad. | QFT
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12-05-2009, 07:59 AM
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if only we get this type of justice from our legal system
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12-05-2009, 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by GLOW if only we get this type of justice from our legal system | Nope. murderers can get set free if they're mentally insane during the killing. 
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12-05-2009, 11:11 AM
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it is a really messed up trial if you look into it
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12-07-2009, 08:16 AM
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The case is about something else, someone under house arrest
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