Amanda Knox found guilty on all charges

I don't know if she is guilty or not. But Giuliano Mignini, the Italian prosecutor, is a nightmare. He is featured in the book "The Monster of Florence," which many posters have mentioned. Every conviction with him seems to be spun around "sex orgies" and "satanic rituals." This young girl did the worst thing possible, which was to speak to Italian authorities without a lawyer in her initial interrogation. Parts of that interrogation, by the way, have been "lost." The DNA evidence appears to be suspect, at best. And several journalists, Douglas Preston being one of them, initially heard the evidence against Amanda Knox and thought she was guilty. Until Preston visited the actual "facts" of the case. There was absolutely no motive beyond the "orgy" gone wrong. And again, Mignini has used this motive in several of the trials of innocent people charged as being "the Monster of Florence." All of those imprisoned were later released, to the best of my recollection. No matter what happened, that guy shouldn't be allowed near a courtroom.

 

He gets headlines and wins cases, however tainted those victories may be. He'll have the job until he decides he no longer wants it. Unfortunately.

 

Not likely. When you're in a foreign country, you're subject to that country's laws and legal system. It doesn't matter how wrong the Italian justice system is by our standards. She committed the crime in Italy, and against an Italian citizen to boot. It's entirely in their hands.

Look at the case of that New Jersey man whose wife took their son to Brazil, divorced him, and took herself another husband who, now that the mother has died, is refusing to let the boy return to the United States. The father's congressman and other people have been pleading with the Brazilian government to let him go and trying to shame the government there into doing so. But the U.S. can't actually force the government to let him go.

 

Seriously? Even though that boy is an American citizen? There's nothing the government can do??

If I were the father in that case, I'd be looking into hiring some mercenaries to go and get that boy one way or the other......

 

There's nothing the government can do because if it did, it would have to bend over every time a foreign government wanted special treatment for its own citizens.

What the family needs to do now, if it wants Knox either brought back or, in a best-case scenario, released, is to shut the fuck up. You solve these things with quiet diplomacy, not by shouting about how corrupt the system is.

 

Ever see "Midnight Express?"

 

Well, well, well. Turns out it was NONE of the people convicted.

See, it was this guy that no one knows, but he was invited over to the house, you know, and while the one guy who was first put in jail for this was in the bathroom, cuz he really had to go to the bathroom. Yea, it was this other guy that was never brought up before because this first convicted guy, see, he'd rather tell that to someone in jail than a lawyer or a cop or anyone else who could help him at trial.

Maybe that guy even has one arm!

I mean, who wouldn't believe the testimony of the convicted child murderer who has this info??

http://abcnews.go.com/International/AmandaKnox/mystery-man-blamed-knox-case/story?id=10028590&cid=ESPNheadline

 

indeed, this could be TREE-MENDOUS screenplay waiting to be written in a couple of years. 8)

 

Not Knox but Clooney will star in an adaption of The Monster of Florence, which had several of the key characters in her debacle of a case.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/01/george_clooney_signs_up_to_pla.html

 

Classic
"Clooney will play Preston, in a part that was once attached to Tom Cruise, but will now be performed with far fewer stunt sequences and no threats of Shia LaBeouf joining the cast."
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Verdict (in appeal) is imminent.

I hope Knox is on a plane home tonight.

 

They said on the news this morning that one of the morning shows has a private jet waiting for her to take her home if she is let go.