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  • The Kercher family- the victim's family were totally dignified throughout this horrible ordeal of Meredith's and remain so today.

  • the victim's parents are strange

  • @IH8Top40Music No just happy Amanda Knox was finally given justice! Yayy!

  • @Pinkforestt What justice? A murdered girl? How empty-hearted and unthinking you are. Truly, you must be as heartless, shallow, and unfeeling as Amanda Knox. She's guilty as hell, anybody with a BRAIN knows it, honey.

  • @BabeonToast Maybe if you read the facts of the case, you'd see why nine jurors and two independent, court-appointed dna experts overturned the trumped up crap conviction of 2009, which was orchestrated by a lunatic prosecutor on a witch hunt. Meredith was murdered and her killers in jail. It's time for everyone to move on now and continue their lives!

  • @Pinkforestt I see the strident Amanda groupies are out in full force. My God, to defend a sociopath...grow up and READ the real facts, not the usual dumbed down media garbage fed to the American masses. No wonder the whole world laughs at you. I suppose O.J. and Casey Anthony are just innocent angels as well?

    No, her "killers" (that's plural, stupid!) are not in jail; nobody with a brain thinks pie-faced Amanda and her former fuck partner are innocent.

  • @BabeonToast The Amanda Knox case is not to be compared to the OJ and Casey trial. Every case is different. This is the 2nd case in which Giuliano Mignini wrongfully accused someone of being a satantic sex killer. The guy is a freak, and the whole case was a joke. The Kerchers and those who think Amanda is guilty are heartless wretches who want an innocent person suffer for a crime that she didn't do.

  • let's face reality however harsh it can be -isn't the harshest some times?

    Havent Knoxy shown at any point a disturbed personality in uncontrallable need of attention by others? Hasn't she shown disrgard at any point for the horrible slauther of her flat mate Meredith K? Hasn't she lied and contraddicted herself consistently? Didnt she take a shower on the murder scene with blood around? Didn't she accuse a third man and never withdraw that? Hasn't Mez been hold down and stab with 2 knives?

  • @Pinkforestt Meredith's family has been through enough, you heartless moron.

  • @BabeonToast This family suffered a horrible tragedy, granted but how does making innocent people suffer lessen their tragedy?

  • @Pinkforestt Amanda Knox is no innocent, dearie.

  • Poxy Knox. Getting away with murder. Shame on the Italian justice system. GOT AWAY WITH MURDER!

  • Of course its the black guy. His name is Rudy Guede. They are a savage animal race. What a surprise! A black committing rape and murder of a white? When are you morons going to wake up to reality.

  • @KENA429 You say that the Black people are a "Savage Animal Race." What do you call the "White Men"- John Gacy, Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Paul Bernardo, Scott Peterson, John Chapman, Wesley Allan Dodd, Clifford Olson, Robert Pickton, and so on and so on......??

  • I feel so sorry for her parents...

  • @ruide1966 Only want her behind bars if she did it, if she is innocent then of course I dont want her in prison, but who ever did it needs to be punished dont they?

  • @isolationproblem No worries... Justice will prevail! If Knox gets off and she really WAS involved in the malicious murder of Meredith Kercher, she'll PAY. If not in THIS life, then the NEXT.

  • @ruide1966 How the hell do you know whether or not Sollecito was in the killing room or not?

    Were you a fly on the wall, ruide?

  • Yeah her daughter aint dead but she may have murdered some one else's so she should rot in prison, everytime she went to court she posed like a fucking magazine shoot if she is innocent then she is deffo a candifate for a psychiatric hospital

  • There are so many murder's happing around the world but this one has been so high profile, all america seems to think she is innocent, it would be a diffrent story if Meredith Kercher was there sister/ daughter etc

  • @ruide1966....what are you talking about Lumumba... Lumumba said: ''I have not been beaten. I said that I was very humbled because 'the police took me and then without telling me why my word was worth nothing. But there were no acts of violence''

  • 1966 ruide ... you very naive, no one can predict an earthquake, you can monitor but not predict where earthquakes prevcisely will strike

  • Dear friend Ruide 1966...veri strange story that you tell us, in Italy does not appear that Patrick Lumumba should stand trial for libel .. Daily Mail is a source of crap or bowl shit in other words

  • The American justice system is so efficient that it lets OJ Simpson walk, Casey Anthony go free....

    Now, they are rooting for Amanda Knox.

    Wow

  • @Eaglesfaninca ..it's not a joke.. a young English girl came to Italy to study seriously and not to take drugs and she has been brutally murdered ... is it a joke for you?.. your dear, sweet Amanda , still has faces two trials for libel, for Lumunba Patrick (she was too drugged to remember everything that night?) and the other against the Italian police... ... so ..all my best Amanda and mom knox

  • @ruide1966 All I can say is that I hope that is a joke.

  • It is really sad to see if she is not guilty, but you never know even though the person looks innocent, they may be guilty ... I am sorry that they have lost their daughter and their daughter isn't dead...hm...maybe they can skype next :D that's a good solution insead of going to italy

  • Knox's culpability is an obvious fact, an evidence and all people around the world think she's guilty except..in USA, for some americans it's impossible to accept this, simply because she's a "patriot", not kercher, because it's in Italy so it's "anti-US", if Meredith was american and knox non-american USA would cry for Meredith and ask death penalty for Knox.Again the US show how their patriotism make them blind, agressive, partial, soulless...

  • @mymusicvideos111 Is that the best you can do? Delusional garbage not supported by the evidence. Rudy Guede's DNA was everywhere - but not Amanda? What about Rafaelle? Both of them leave no footprints or DNA or fingerprints, all over a tiny room bathed in Meredith's blood? Mignini is a crook and I believe FBI agent Steve Moore. Now that Mignini is gone, the case collapses and the truth comes out.

  • Hey, Charles Manson wasn't a scary looking guy (for his first two decades). He had many women admirers. Why do we think human beings have to look evil to do evil things? Silly idea. Like a cartoon world...Joker...weird looking so bad....batman...good looking so good?

  • Oh yes, jail isn't easy. How about the other side? Her roommate being stabbed to death isn't easy either. Please show videos on their perspective.

  • @muppetchile See Steve Moore on how it would be impossible for anyone else but Rudy Guede to be at the crime scene. Also, why no motive for the killing? Also, a prosecutor convicted for false prosecution!! Total crap.

  • saddleblazin so you wouldn't blame it on someone else even though someone else is to blame, right?

  • The Beatles give her solace? If I was Ringo Starr I would be pissed.

    Shame on the parents for not reaching out to the Kerchers. Shame on them. I can't believe I ever felt sorry for them.

    The other guy convicted of the crime who's not her boyfriend was the only one to apologize to the Kerchers. Nobody doubted his guilt for a second. Is it because he's black? Nobody seems to care about Meredith Kercher. Is it because she's half-indian?

  • Film posmatrite a patom skajite ubila ili net

  • False accusations in a criminal cases happen every day. Next time it might be you.

  • @mickey0667 You're right. Except when it happens to me I'll make sure I don't do cartwheels at the Police station or concoct absurd lies and try to blame it on someone else.

  • I have read all the evidence in this case and am convinced it was railroading of an innocent girl and her boyfriend by a corrupt (now CONVICTED) prosecutor. He is a wild fantasist who spun bizarre theories on this case and leaked them to the press. Because this girl is young and pretty, the public ate up the stories of her supposed wanton lifestyle and the Italians officials were pressured to convict. Free Amanda and Sollecito now!!

  • People just do not lie their ass off, unless they have something to hide!

  • I do not like anyone who made a stupid comment about Amanda and her family...I forgive you...Because I know for a fact she is Innocent...I hate the fact that you all make me angry and sick...I'm tired of people who don't know what they are talking about and who think they know everything...Its wrong...So please shut your mouth and dont write anymore stupid comments. People like you shouldn't be able to say anything....

  • @emmycampbell1 Exactly what is she innocent of? She tried to ruin Patric Lumumba's life. She's a druggie, by her own confession, she has a herpes, she was so overwhelmed of JOY of another human being death, that she had to express it by doing cartwheels, she can't stop her psychopath smiling, smirking, and flirting at the murder trial. Beautiful fan you have!

  • She is a murderer.

  • Maybe Amanda lied or maybe she did not lie.  What is a fact- the Italian police never taped any of the 13 hour interagation. Now to me that would upset me if I was being questioned and the police did not tape the interview.. In the end, The lives of three young people and thier loved ones have changed for the worse. Esp Merredith's family.

  • what i don't understand , none of u guys know what happened. im not saying that she is innocent, but we don't if she is guilty either. so stop being so judgemental

  • The Knox parents make me sick. I hope this financially cripples them.

    Stay away from the cameras and just write the sick murdering whore off as dead.

  • why do parents allowed their kids leave this country to study in a very far foreign side of the world . why can they just keep them here . there is alot of opportinuties here in the USA . I think u need to put your foot down as a parent , and don't let your kids go . Parents need to step and take care of thier kids.

  • read the testimonial of her. Not the NBC/ABC files, NOT American or Italian Analyst, read the whole transcripts. She lied a lot, a lot of contradictions. In the key questions she began to talked others things. Very very upsetting! You can read the transcripts in Site: Perugia Murder Files

  • @Tasbah Rubbish. She is in jail because Mignini needed a scapegoat!

  • @c0uchp0tat0e1 What the hell was 'the reason' for the Italy to throw their own Italian citizen behind bars, then? Was Sollecito ALSO a SCAPEGOAT for Italy?

    I don't THINK so!!

  • @kimatoz3 As ruide1966 stated, Sollecito was convicted, because Mignini could not convict Amanda without also convicting him. Mignini desperately needed an arrest and conviction, AND FAST, because he was under indictment for his prosecutorial abuse in Florence two years earlier. No Sollecito, no knife, no 'murder weapon', hence no case. By the way, Mignini is NOW saying that Amanda wasn't even in the room ... !!

  • @c0uchp0tat0e1 So what if Knox wasn't in the killing room. Charles Manson did not take physical part in his murders, either - he just master-minded them.

    I certainly do not believe that Mignini was so desperate to arrest someone that he pulled Sollecito in just because he was Knox's boyfriend of the moment. C'mon. Let's get real here!

  • @kimatoz3 That's right - a 20-year-old with absolutely no history of violence "master-minded" the whole murder without entering the room. That makes sense ... not. You may want to Google "Mignini", "Monster of Florence" and "Doug Preston", and you'll see that this prosecutor has tried to frame other people before. Amanda's not the first.

  • @nula1998 You deluded American groupies really don't do well with FACTS like evidence, DNA, things like that? See, dear, in the real world, people are EDUCATED.

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  • @nula1998 My God, you are PATHETIC. See, DEARIE, there IS evidence. More than your obtuse mind could even handle. Don't they have schools in your country, honey? Grow up, your behaviour is to be expected. What's the matter, hate being on the wrong side of decency and reality, toots? Save your attitude for the IDIOTS who raised you. And grow a human heart....no wonder people think Germans are nasty, cold fish. :)

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  • @nula1998 What's the matter, toots, you can message me but can't take a reply? Yes, the DNA, honey. Mandy the Sociopath's is all over. Aren't you in the least interested in how heartless and callous this rotten cunt is? And how many times this spoiled brat changed her story? Get real, toots. and don't message me if you don't have the GUTS to get a reply, honey.

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  • @c0uchp0tat0e1 that is such nonsense if Mignini needed an arrest then he already had one he had Guedre who to all intents and purposes appeared to be positively guilty.so why make more work for himself by going after Amanda Knox and  Raffeile.? Unless he simply wanted the truth and justice and he realized the truth in what Guedre had told him.( whatever that was ) do you really believe that newspaper reporters know it all?As for what Mignini was reported to have said,was it sarcasm perhaps.?

  • I hope she dies there!!!!

  • she deserves to be tortured to death

  • There r so many innocent people languishing in jail! Why is this so important!! Becoz she is a girl!! 

  • If your friend foxy knoxy is innocent,why does she have change her stories more than two times?she was high on drugs and she forgot everything about it

  • WTF, WHY IS THIS VIDEO TRYING TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE SHES A VICTIM?

    OH BOO HOO SHE SITS IN JAIL A ND THATS ALL WELL HELL YEAH SHE KILLED SOMEONE FREAKIN MORONS!

  • She's innocent! ...you all should better check the details...and the faults of the Italian police. FREE AMANDA!!!

  • @starfoxtube she is as innocent as caysey anthony yeah free her!!

  • Lonely? I saw her prison cell in another video. She has 3 roomates, a kitchen, a shower, a tv, and more. Sounds nice. Better than she would get here

  • Knox is guilty as sin, too may lies, too much dispassion, shopping for sexy underwear the day after she killed Knox, only being sorry when she's caught, she deserves to rot in prison and never see the light of day as a free person ever again. The Kerchers cannot travel to Italy to visit their daughter and hug her and talk to her, so Knox needs to suffer horribly for the rest of her hopefully short life.

  • @skylur44 honestly who the fuck gives a shit?! meredith was nothing but a WHORE who would routinely go out the town square EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, get very drunk and high and have sex with any local bozo, often bringing home random guys from the street every night...sadly its painfully obvious how this woman's fate was sealed. It wasnt amanda, it wasn't Raffaele and it wasn't the black guy. It was the doing of some (likely intoxicated) thug from the street. FREE THEM ALL!!!!!!!

  • @geniusin1 What a bunch of BALONEY! Meredith's friends & flatmates said Meredith was not very interested in dating even, because she was so intent on her University studies... and remember~ it was Meredith getting fed up with Knox bringing men home. Let's not turn the tables.

  • @skylur44

    hopefully she has a long life then

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  • suck shit crazy white girl

  • In general European justice is farrrr more lenient than American justice. If this had happened in Texas then she might have got a much worse sentence. It's a very sad story, but if she did murder - there is a consequence. I'm sure she wouldn't have been found guilty unless there was significant evidence against her. If it was committed without malicious intent, then the conviction should be reduced to manslaughter. OR maybe she is innocent, but frankly I think that is doubtful.

  • that was HORRIBLE.when amanda knoxs mother said "MY daughters not dead" it didnt sounds sympathetic at all.

  • i dont no if she's guilty or innocent...but she accused an innocent man of murdering meredith, then said she wasn't in the flat, said she was at her bf's house, HE said he can't remember if she was there, well she just sentenced herself to long time in jail!!!

  • It is crystal clear that Amanda Knox is innocent of this terrible crime. She should be released immediately along with Raffaele Sollecito. FREE AMANDA KNOX AND RAFFAELE SOLLECITO. Their continued imprisonment is a total disgrace. Release them now!!!!!!

  • @kathrynwatersful crystal clear how?

  • @pacificspotted - thanks for your comment . Please visit the injusticeinperugia site and read the true facts behind this case. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion and I to mine. There is no credible evidence linking either Amanda or Raffaele to this vile crime. Please give your opinion when you have visited the injusticeinperugia site.

  • @kathrynwatersful

    that website is dishonest and disingenuous.

    the bra clasp treatment is just staggering. there is no reason at all his dna should have been on the clasp, none. website makes some really half-hearted claims at cross-contamination and then concludes it "proves nothing". what a strange claim. AK and RS had been going out only a short time, his dna shows up on here housemates underwear and it "proves nothing"? was he in the habit of doing laundry for the girls? lol.....

  • @kathrynwatersful

    re "lies and misinformation" section, nearly everything here is irrelevant and serves only to discredit the Italian media etc. The irony is that many of the journalistic devices cited as "lies and misinformation" are actually employed by the website itself . eg re Guede - " It was reported that he had a knife in his possession at the time of his arrest". not "he had a knife" when arrested but "it was reported" he had - just enough suggestion to cast doubt and suspicion....

  • @kathrynwatersful

    re the "Amanda Knox" section. like most of the website there is a focus here on how the media employed a few photographs and a nickname to blacken her. another thing the media hit upon but that this website omits is that Amanda had some sort of literary interest in rape and some of her compositions were so-themed. evidence of murder? hardly, but well worthy of mention in an objective review, way more so than a German Harry Potter book or an interest in soccer

  • @kathrynwatersful

    re Knox's change of story post-interrogation. this is skipped over very quickly and justified by stress. it has maybe 3-6 lines of text covering the fact that Knox initially said she wasn't there, then said she was, then said she wasn't again and even less dedicated to the fact that she tried the ol' "blame the local black guy" tactic. no matter what stress a person is under its simply implausible to "dream" the presence of your boss. no explanation is offered for this....

  • @kathrynwatersful

    the fact that the website states it solved the crime itself only casts further doubts on its credibility. "Rudy Guede murdered Meredith Kercher", it claims, "and he acted alone". Meredith was young and healthy and had earned a yellow belt in karate but as per this site he managed to pin down both her arms and slit her throat at the same time. does Guede actually have three arms? if so that would explain a lot but if not then its pretty much a physical impossibility....

  • @kathrynwatersful

    the site makes much of the fact that the amount of Meredith's dna found on the knife is small. RS's explanation in court for the presence of the dna was an accidental cut he gave Meredith whilst cooking at his apartment, the problem being that Meredith had never once been there. contrasting with his version, the defense again blame contamination. omitted is that RS loved knives, had one mounted above his bed and carried two every day wherever he went (by his own admission)..

  • @kathrynwatersful

    So thank you sister for your respectful advice and comment.

    I've now read your sources as requested.

    Neither you nor I can say exactly what happened that night but heres two things I CAN say with absolute certainty.

    1) that website is absolutely not the definitive source of "true facts" on the case, its really far from it.

    2) there is an abundance of credible evidence that links both AK and RS to the murder of Meredith Kercher.

  • "jai's not easy."

    haha, ya think???

  • and the academy award for best reporter delivering melodrama goes to: elizabeth vargas!

  • Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have been wrongly convicted! Steve Moore, a veteran FBI agent has written several articles for Injustice in Perugia website. He has had 25 years of experience in the investigation and prosecution of violent crime. Steve has researched this case extensively; his opinion is one that must be respected when it comes to crimes of this nature. Please learn the facts about this case from an expert that you can trust. Injustice in Perugia org

  • This bitch deserves death penalty. Sadly, there is no death penalty in Italy, so don´t cry, in 20 years she will be back in the US.

  • @titomanlio75 What's with you death penalty junkies? Prison is high on my list of worst case scenarios. Death (the great equalizer) happens to everyone. In another 50 yrs most people connected with this case will be dead anyway. I would happily submit to peaceful lethal injection, rather than spend decades rotting in a cell as my life slowly fades. As usual, though, most humans never think things through logically. Instead, it's all about emotions and irrational 'eye for an eye' type stuff.

  • All evidence points to the nigger! Everything else is just hearsay! Fuck Italy's justice system and fuck that German pedofile they worship called the" Pope!" Boicott all Italian products!

  • You obviously haven't read the report, have you?

  • my prayers with Amanda's family. I hope that your daughter is soon proved innocent and that your lives can finally get back to the course they were redirrected from.

  • @ibster8 ... my prayers are with the Kercher family; for the tragic and horrific sudden loss of Meredith.

  • Amanda Knox is innocent. Either that or she's the most amazing criminal the world has ever known! How did she get every trace of herself out of the room where Meredith was murdered? There was no hair, no fiber, not a trace of DNA in the room where the murder happened. How do you explain that? Amanda Knox was not there. Injustice in Perugia org

  • "Everything I have said in regards to my involvement in Merediths death, even though it is contrasting, are the best truth that I have been able to think." (Amanda Knox, 6 November 2007).

  • she recites POETRY to the NUNS that VISIT every week! She also won a creative writing competition! at least she can GET bored, rather than in America where she'd be dead before the echo of the gavel had died away.

  • Wow so much free time to chat on YouTube the lawyers I know barely have time to return a personal phone call lol

  • Just FYI Bert - you dont google the law in the "profession" hahaha you are some joke! Legal companies pay thousands upon thousands of dollars to have access to the cases on line! Do you think they would do that if the cases were available online hehehe!

    Once again Bert if you have no idea about law in the real world as a profession!

  • Transactional lawyers google all the time, o petulant Giselle. We don't transact by citing case law, we work with heavily negotiated precedents. The last time I used West Law was when I was clerking in a boutique class action litigation firm. I beg you to have a practicing lawyer vet your comments before you post, the secretarial pool here knows more than you.

  • What strikes a common law trained observor of the Italian system is the way in which guilt does not require a unanimous jury, that character evidence can be introduced by the prosecution prior to the defense doing so, that motive could be drammatized, that judges sitting on the jury have more than an instructional role, but a persuasive influence, that the jury is not sequestered, that the accused can be held without a bail hearing, that the media can influence court sentiments . . .

  • Amanda Knox is guilty of this horrible crime along with Raffaele and Rudy.

    The Knox clan have hired a PR company to suppress and twist the facts. But if one were to look at the evidence it soon becomes clear that all three were involved. That is if you are after the truth! True Justice for Meredith Kercher is an excellent and insightful site. Both sides of the prosecution and defence arguments are available unlike the many one sided sites that are out their for Knox

  • @Giselle1403 maybe you should stop watching into the cristal ball of yours to see the facts and apply a little bit of common sence and then you might understand that innocent or guilty doesn't just work like you wish and is that answering this question is a hard process of uncovering the truth

  • @ibster8 which crystal ball?

    Im looking at the evidence - ALL the evidence from official government websites!

  • For anyone who is interested in the facts behind the media spin, and who cares to learn more about the victim of this terrible murder - Meredith Kercher - there is an excellent discussion board

    Perugia Murder File

    as well as an interesting blog

    True Justice For Meredith Kercher

    These online resources are not for profit. Anyone can read and/or participate and people from around the world do. They have followed this case since November 2007.

  • along with Guede's deposition perfectly according to found evidences , audio surveillance dialogues soon after her arrest and controls of Sollecito & Amanda phones.

    So it's not a single dna fragment that drove into Amanda's charge , like you ridiculously tried to set ....

    My comments of course are not x gregtube88 but for didleybopp , I typed

    the wrong nick , I apologize x that .

  • In addition , dont try to lie about posted statements, REAL circumstances and true facts like your US media have done about this case : I never talked of MINUSCULE ( check if I'm writin' it correctly ) dna fragment as main evidence, you did that ( read back posted comments ) , because who has been watching this murder case since 1st day

    and reading about, knows perfectly that there are tens Amanda's dna fragments and bloody traces all around the home, on Meredith's body, on the knife

  • Amanda's dna was found on Meredith's body? Where, what, how? I am truly curious. I thought that could be explained away by the fact that they were roommates. But was there something unique to the crime that they found? Can you give us the reference.

  • Quite bizarre & ridiculous your accusation

    ag. people like me, living in Italy or UK ( countries in which media reported & analyzed instant by instant this case ) , who in your opinion know little about this murder case, and at opposite your 1 way nationalistic " impartial" US media made you know & get evry issue about ...!

    I call such a funny & pathetic attitude

    a ridiculous sciovinistic one !

    Dont worry x me and people like , we certainly know much more than you !

  • gregtube88 : beyond any type mistake of the word " minuscule " ( so naive pointing to it just to enforce own biased opinions ...) you made a question that should have been asked to you : I live in this country, so I'm supposed to have red and got many more infos than you since the day of murder . So let me ask you : how do you know Amanda Knox is innocent having no knowledge of crime evidences, scene an other things ?

    Have YOU done FIVE HUNDRED HOURS of research ???

  • and there are several different other evidences on her, Sollecito and Guedè as well ! The US attitude in this case looked to be a naive & pathetic one ,more of a 3rd world country rather than a civilized western one .....!

  • @Trulyloyale Has there been an interview on amanda's boyfriend, and the black man who's accused? Have they spoke out yet as to what happened. please explain, cuz I haven't been keeping up with the story. Thanks!

  • so why don't they keep their bloody psycho murders into their borders so they may not come here & make their horrific crimes ??

    If Americans pretend impunity x ev'ry crime made by someone of them, better they stay home !!

    Ps didleybop dont talk nonsenses & bizarre bs if you know nothing about the case or yout know only the 1way lies and ridiculous all the amount of rubbish by the american media , there were many ( and not just a minuscule one ) dna fragments of Amanda all around

  • and they should congratulate with Italian investigators x their excellent , fantastic & fast job ! If it was in their ruined USA, they would have investigated & solved the case by picking out someone from black people, built false evidences on him and just sentenced to death ( something seen so many times in USA ) .

    I know that the well known yank sciovinism & stupid nationalism doesn't make them accept that an american citizen can crime outside the US ,

  • As someone with in depth knowledge of the commonwealth legal system I must say that from the little research that I have done on the Italian system reading about this case. It is slow but infinitely better!

    -the jury has to give reasoning for their verdict (so you dont get OJ style verdicts)

    -if the reasoning mentions anything other than the FACTS ie media BS the appeal overturns the conviction

    -there are 2 judges on the jury panel great because studies show that juries are often confused

  • Giselle, as a non practicing attorney who studies Art History, can you tell us, other than by flitting across google, how you have "acquired an in depth knowledge of the commonwealth legal system"? Do you spend any time practicing criminal law? Do you write peer reviewed articles on criminal procedure? Have you ever even followed a criminal court proceeding from start to finish?

  • I know that you like to say you are a hot shot Italian Lawyer & I have negated this by proving you wrong on simple legal matters

    Now you want to somehow make a mockery of me being a qualified lawyer but you dont know how - I have been through law school and I have passed the bar and trained - I have not written articles on criminal law but I have studied the short comings of the jury system and other procedural issues and on that basis the Italian system appears to be a good model

  • You do not have to attack me with a mistatement. I am not an Italian lawyer, and I have never said I was. You pointed out one aspect of Italian law, that there are no plea bargains in capital crimes, but you even flubbed that, as there are plea bargains involving SOME capital crimes, i.e., in mafia cases (i pentiti). Now why so defensive? You claim to have an "in depth" knowledge of commonwealth law, but you are not a practicing criminal law attorney. I guess in depth for you is relative.

  • YES you did and anyone that has been posting long enough remembers how you tried to say you were a fantastic ITALIAN LAWYER ! a hot shot and I believe you said I would only ever wish to have your job! BERTINOTTI

    Then you disappeared from shame when I caught you out on a very simple legal matter - Bert you were the laughing stock for claiming to be a lawyer! I am pretty sure that many people will remember you outrageous claims to gather credibility!

  • Go ahead and post my statement where I declare I am an Italian lawyer. You are ridiculous. I said I practiced law in Italy. This obviously confuses you because you have never practiced transactionally in an international context. You lost any credibility when you stated "MOTIVE NEVER MATTERS" and the Italian judicial system is "infinitely better than the common law one" (!)

  • Go ahead and post where I said anything of the sort. You can't. You are making it up.

  • I am pretty sure that law school, the bar examinations and training as a lawyer puts be in a position to be able to claim that I have 'in depth knowledge' of the common law on youtube - if I were in a legal forum I would presume myself a junior! Thats not to say no one on youtube is better qualified than me, but I have proven that I am better qualified than one person and thats you BERT

  • no it doesn't, it just provides you with enough knowledge to be dangerous. The law takes 80 hour work weeks for ten years before you can even scratch the surface, and your half assed treatment of the appeal process, intent, motive, and comparative legal systems only reflects poorly on you because you presume to have a clue about what you are talking about. Your last comments on intent were shamefully inadequate, I teach first years who are more prepared. Stick to looking at slides of Monet.

  • Wouldn't you need to go to law school in a civil law jurisdiction, pass their bar, practice in their sytem before you could declare there system to be "infinitely better"? You are a joke, Giselle. Trainees in my firm at least have the humility to recognize they don't know shit. You are like an art school grad who thinks he is a professional painter.

  • oh BERT! I said that it was 'my opinion' that the Italian system was infinitely better and I did mention I have only done minor research on their system

    My statement was qualified and completely subjective!

    You said you were an Italian hot shot lawyer BERT - do you still claim to be good friends with Judith Butler?! I gave you a week to call your good friend and ask her where she was - because as luck had it she was in the same library as me! Pure bad luck but proves you are a big lier Bert

  • Giselle gave me a week to call a friend to settle a point on You Tube? You are kidding, right? Here, I want you to call your mommy to verify you were not dropped on your head. Please get back to us. Oh, BTW, I am also friends with Gianni Vattimo. I have NO IDEA where Gianni is or what he is doing, and I would certainly NOT waste his time verifying where he is, especially as it would do NOTHING to verify whether we are friends are not.

  • @Giselle1403 thanks for pointing out the obvious, that declaring one system as "infinintely better" than another was your subjective opinion (what else could it have been?). How does your declaring it an opinion not make your opinion ill-informed and poorly conceived? Giselle, you continue to disappoint.

  • Actually Bert it is clear to all those who remember your previous posts what is going on.

    Also I would suggest you dont make yourself the laughing stock of the art world as well! Your comment was entirely uneducated (I guess you didnt feel the need to google this one) - just FYI a "professional painter" is a very loose term - although training academically for painting is necessary, many students have talents which surpass 'professional painters' :D

  • Would it be possible for a series of comments exchanged off handedly on a minor backwater of a you tube page allow ANYONE to become the "laughing stock of the ART WORLD" (no less!). You earnestly tried to rebut an offhanded comment and STILL managed to fall on your ass. Nicely done.

  • Oh, so now the Italian system "appears to be a good model" -- but is it still "infinitely better" than the UK's commonwealth system? Do you see any value to setting bail, sequestering juries in high-profile sex-murder crimes, screening jurors for bias, separating triers of fact from triers of law? Your bald assertions exemplify how little real thinking you have done in comparing the two systems. You just like to reach the same conclusion through different avenues.

  • You have no idea the complexities of a jury system Bert.

    There are countless problems with the jury system that is much the same in the UK and US! The study of shadow jurors alone demonstrates that the Italian juror having two judges on the jury panel - can be extremely helpful

    Jurors require some technical guidance on the often confusing procedures !

  • Giselle, please tell us how "technical guidance on often confusing procedures" is NOT provided in the UK or the US? You have just described EXACTLY the role of judges in criminal proceedings -- to provide guidance with respect to procedures, evidentiary burdens, etc. I have almost ceased being dismayed at how much of a novice you are. Only the intellectually lazy and obtuse puff up their gills and make such declaratively wrong statements. Congrats.

  • @bertinotti

    Guidance is provided by judges in the UK and the US - but once the jury are in their room, there is no way for anyone to be sure that they have understood what exactly is expected of them from a legal stand point.

    Bert THINK before you make a bigger fool of yourself. I understand that google does not provide precise answers so you may be confused ;)

  • Please help me on this one, Professor Giselle. Are you saying juries are not allowed and do not regularly rely on clarification, instruction and guidance throughout their deliberations? 2. Are you saying that you would rather have judges guiding jurors, outside of the presence of lawyers, on points of law or ways to interpret the evidence? Hmm, I wonder if you have ever contemplated the implications of jurors charged with deciding on the facts having their conclusions second guessed by experts.

  • @bertinotti

    Its not a matter of Jurors being allowed to seek clarification - its a matter of them understanding that they need clarification!

    The judges that sit on the jury on Italy are able to oversee the deliberations and make sure that hearsay and media gossip is not taken into consideration when they are reasoning

    Also by the Italian system there needs to be a written reasoning of why the verdict was delivered - this means that any mistakes are cause of appeal - US and UK do not have this!

  • The Massei report on the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito case does not refer to any media gossip - this would have been cause for appeal and often the defendant is found not guilty on appeal if that were the case!

    The jury was not sequestered but they did not refer to the media in the 427 pages of reasoning that they provided!

    It was purely based on the facts, the science and the evidence!

    Another FANTASTIC aspect of the Italian system is this reasoning report! The verdict is explained!

  • Giselle if you are willing to lie about my ever saying that I am a hot shot Italian Lawyer, what else are you willing to lie about? Just curious. Are your arguments so weak that you have to invent stuff? If you can point to any post where I ever claimed to be an Italian lawyer I will go to every board related to Knox and publicly acknowledge that I made a false claim. Otherwise, you are simply showing another example of your arguing in bad faith.

  • @bertinotti

    everyone rembers that you claimed to ve a hot shot Italian lawyer bert - get a life not going to rummage through your posts! We all know what you said because you wouldn't shut up about it until you got the law wrong!

    Now you are teaching law! You don't know anything about the law - you google your infor and have obviously watched way too much Hollywood.

  • You google your info, Giselle. And you google badly, at that. There is no shame in googling in the law profession. There is no shame in pulling a book off the shelf. There is no shame in entering into a free ranging conversation. These are some of the necessary prerequisites to lawyering. The truly Hollywood elements to this case were those drammatizations by the prosecution.

  • Why do you feel the need to say nonsense like "infinitely better" -- do you see no value in setting bail, in plea bargaining, in jury sequestering, in separating triers of law from the trier of fact? You do not sound particularly qualified to judge whether one system is "infinitely better" than another.

  • Also the Italian appeal court can review the facts of the case - Im not sure whether I agree with this as it should really only be the jury that decides on facts but in Knox' case this will be to her advantage

    What I most appreciate about the Italian system is that technical errors on behalf of police do not break the chain of evidence putting a dangerous criminal back on the street! these are the loopholes that lawyers use in commonwealth countries to defend their clients!

    & NO death penalty!!

  • US trials & juries ? Ridiculous shows x media that sentenced thousands of innocents to death penalty and in which wealthiest accused who can afford the most expensive lawyers are usually found not guilty by obtuse juries ( and thanks God in Italy we lack in both ! ) .

    So I think that the US justice truly appears to be not worthy of a western world civilized country and the US media should stop complaining, shouting & behaving like brainless nationalistic chickens

  • and not made of competent prof judges,

    cronic abuses & malfunctions & misconducting by different states' crime police who often deliberately manipulate witnessess and evidences to make anyone look guilty , their system of justice is a 3rd world and a shamefull one , an example of how no to do if we want to find the real guilty of a murder and put him on trial.

    US police & crime investigators ?

    Despite all big money & scientific tech available, they're mostly crappy .

  • but they have CSI (las vegas, ny and miami)....

  • USA has such a powerful Army & many weapons , but I wouldn't  put them among best countries in murder cases

    solved classification, despite all the advanced technologies available x their federal authorities .

    The truth is that their system of justice based upon specific state criminal laws, juries made only of citizens who of course have no knowledge of law & evidences and they just trust the lwayers' bad or good oratory ( depending on how expensive he is )

  • The comments directly below show what a good job the Italian prosecution did of character assassinating Amanda Knox with deliberate leaks of misinformation to the press. Most of you don't bother to follow the case or do research to the extent that I do; or you'd see how this image was created. There is no forensic evidence - the whole case is based on a freaky theory. Prosecutor Mignini is obsessed by lurid satanic-sexual murder theories as his recent conviction for abuse of office has proven.

  • This is disqusting, how americans sympathise because she is in prison. Amanda knox is guilty and extremely pathological in her actions. Meredith Kerchers family have the joy of knowing their daughter was murdered by sociopaths in a truted european country. Amanda has this solitude to dwell on her actions, hope time goes very, very slow.

  • @lucyv4534 how do ya know she's guilty?

  • @lucyv4534 The events of that night are easy to piece together. #1. Knox & Harry Potter looking Italian boyfriend wanna have a foursome with their black buddy & Knox's roommate. #2. Knox's female roommate refuses the advances of the black guy. #3. Black guy feels sexually rejected & humiliated in front of 3 attractive white people. #4. Comforts his wounded ego by whacking the roommate. #5. Italian police want to scapegoat the American hottie & employ confusing & intimidating tactics on Knox. duh

  • @lucyv4534

    Uh, excuse me? I'm an American and I do not sympathize with AK's plight in prison. I believe she is guilty and deserves to rot for life. Don't generalize. It would be like me saying all Brits love Cowmilla Porker Bowels and want that tramp to be their next Queen. Ugh.

  • If she had been my daughter, I would have fought like mad for her also. I also would have sat her ass down and demanded to know why she did it, because she did, and is now paying the price. I would sell my expensive home and plan visits to italy for the rest of my life. I would also issue an apology to the Kercher family for their horrible loss.