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Amanda Knox is INNOCENT! Italy SUCKS. (pg. 10)
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| w_ashley |
Can't you keep this bs to the politics forum , total dung fill here.
whan. whan. |
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| Lira |
Hi Nou, I just thought of you:| quote: | Amanda Knox's parents sued by Italian police over abuse claims
The parents of Amanda Knox, the US student convicted of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher, are to face libel charges over their claim that Italian police abused their daughter.
The unusual charge against the US couple stems from an interview they gave to the Sunday Times three years ago, in which they alleged that she had been physically and verbally mistreated during questioning after Kercher's murder in 2007. The police denied harming Knox.
Curt Knox and his wife, Edda Mellas, were charged in their absence by a court in Perugia . They are scheduled to stand trail on 4 July.
A repesentative of the Knox family said there would be no comment on the development.
Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of sexually assaulting and murdering Kercher in the cottage the two women shared in Perugia. Kercher was found semi-naked, with her throat slashed.
Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison, and Sollecito to 25 years. Both deny wrongdoing, and their appeal against conviction has begun.
Another man, Rudy Guede from the Ivory Coast, was also convicted of the killing. Italy's highest criminal court has already upheld Guede's conviction and his 16-year-prison sentence.
Knox's parents are accused of falsely claiming that police officers hit her on the head and threatened her with violence.
The Italian court was told, according to the Italian news agency ANSA, that "they said, contrary to the truth, that Amanda had not been assisted by an interpreter, that she hadn't been given food or water, that she had been abused both physically and verbally", and "that she had been slapped on the back of the head and threatened".
Libel is a criminal charge in Italy, and carries a sentence of six months to three years, as well as a fine.
In their appeal against conviction, lawyers for Sollecito and Knox are arguing that there is no reliable forensic evidence to place either of the appellants at the scene of the knife attack that killed Kercher.
The prosecution at the trial acknowledged it could not supply a motive for the involvement of Knox or Sollecito in the killing. |
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Apparently she learnt something at the school of "We heart Knox", huh? :p |
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| Lira |
| He posted yet another thread? I didn't even bother to look because, for God's sake, that'd be the 3rd thread about this girl already! :wtf: |
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| Lira |
| Nou, keep it all in the same place, it's hard to keep track of the discussion when there are more Amanda Knox threads than bird pics around! :p |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | The 'filthy forensics that taint the case against Foxy Knoxy': Incompetent police 'wore dirty gloves and dropped Meredith's bloodied bra on the floor'
Police scientists involved in the Amanda Knox murder case made a series of glaring errors, an appeal court heard yesterday.
Knox, 24, is serving 26 years for the sex murder of student Meredith Kercher, 21, who was found semi-naked with her throat cut in the house the two shared in Italy.
The American and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 26, were convicted on two key pieces of evidence, a 12in kitchen knife and a clasp from Meredith’s blood-stained bra.
Their trial heard how DNA from Meredith was found on the knife blade and that of Knox was found on the handle, while DNA from Sollecito was said to be on the clasp.
But their appeal in Perugia heard from two independent court-appointed experts who were severely critical of the methods used by police forensic teams.
Professor Stefano Conti showed the court a video clip of two officers collecting the bra clasp, pointing out that it had been found six weeks after the murder and in a different place.
There were gasps from the public gallery as the two officers were seen picking up the clasp, passing it from hand to hand, dropping it, picking it up and then placing it on the floor again.
Professor Conti said that although the police wore gloves, dirty marks could clearly be seen on the thumb and forefinger of one of the officers.
He said the clasp had been subsequently kept in such a poor way that it was covered in rust and further testing would be futile.
Professor Carla Vecchiotti said their tests had showed negative for blood on the knife and that the DNA said to have been Meredith’s was so low it could not be examined again with any conclusion.
The two added that numerous people had been in and out of the crime scene and that objects had been moved, putting all evidence at risk of contamination. |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r.html#comments |
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| montana |
i still say she did it, i hope she never sees life outside of a jail cell.
edit, the article you cited from is from the daily mail. seriously nou, why don't you start using fox news as a source. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
Italy sucks.
| quote: | In a thug move, Perugia prosecutors sent two police patrols to Rome today and tried to seize a DVD from the court-appointed independent experts who testified Monday in the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito appeals trial, according to Perugia-based blogger Frank Sfarzo.
This latest harassment follows threats by police forensic scientist Patrizia Stefanoni to sue the experts for “false statements” supposedly made in their 145-page, meticulously argued report. After a five-month investigation, the experts reject the forensics investigation, call the DNA tests “unreliable,” and identify 54 glaring mistakes that could free the two college students. |
http://blog.seattlepi.com/dempsey/2...nda-knox-trial/ |
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| Trance Nutter |
| that seems like a considered and reasonably written argumentative piece. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Dr Lawrence Kobilinsky, a forensic scientist and DNA expert, told CBS Television at the weekend that it was very easy to contaminate DNA evidence.
"You are breathing over the object...dandruff, hair, anything can contaminate an object. It will confuse the results."
"The problem is, there were very few cells on the alleged murder weapon and if you do the routine DNA procedure, it doesn't work - either you get no results or you get DNA fragments below a certain threshold.
"You really need to use special procedures called high sensitivity testing or low copy number, and that was not done in this case."
He said the review represents Knox's strongest hope yet of an acquittal.
"I think there's more than a glimmer of hope. This piece of evidence (the knife) links Knox to Kercher and if you throw out that evidence, the case is gone. She'll be coming home." |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...e-rejected.html |
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