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Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2014 21:52:40 GMT
The writer Simon Hattenstone based his extensive piece on correspondence and visits with Knox that began in 2009, two years after the 2007 murder of Knox's British roommate, Meredith Kercher. The piece," Who Is Amanda Knox," by Guardian writer Simon Hattenstone, looks into the infamous details of the 2007 murder case, detailing Knox's many retracted confessions, indicting an innocent man, and her feelings over smoking pot — that worked against her at every turn. "Guilty or not," Hattenstone writes, "Knox made a series of terrible decisions," he said, referring to her seemingly bizarre behavior the night of the murder in Perugia, Italy, where she and Kercher were studying. In an intimate visit into her inner-circle, Knox invites the journalist to her hometown of Seattle, into her home, and he was by her side as she discovered the Italian courts once again ruled her guilty. "She seemed to crave normality," Hattenstone wrote of the now-26-year-old. "She wrote about all the positives of prison, her friendship with the chaplain, jogging around the yard, playing guitar in the church choir … Sometimes she would sound terrified and broken. Knox told the Guardian her innocence is obvious, citing the "circumstantial bull crap" of evidence that Guede, Sollecito and herself were all in the room, but only Guede's footprints were found in Kercher's blood.
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Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2014 22:54:17 GMT
The 26-year-old is shown in a black and white photo protesting her innocence over the murder of British student Meredith Kerhcer Amanda Knox has posed for a black and white portrait showing her holding up a sign proclaiming her innocence over the murder of Meredith Kercher. The 26-year-old is shown holding a piece of paper with the words 'SIAMO INNOCENTI' which translates to 'We are innocent', in a desperate attempt to defend her and former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. The 26-year-old American, who refused to attend the four-month trial in Florence, has vowed not to return to Italy after she was sentenced to 28 years. The former lovers have said they will appeal the verdict. Yesterday the Mirror revealed how the only man currently behind bars for the murder, Rudy Guede, 27, has secretly been given permission for day release to study a history degree. Knifeman: Rudy Hermann Guede
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Post by Admin on Feb 14, 2014 6:02:58 GMT
It’s interesting that this week dedicated to love should be the same week that a hate campaign is established on Facebook. It consists of photographs of various individuals, supposedly Perugian, holding placards reading Perugia Vi Odia (“Perugia Hates You”). They mimic a photograph I posted to my own website and Twitter account that professes Raffaele’s and my innocence to the Italian people despite the latest guilty verdict handed down by the Florentine Court of Appeals on January 30th. The hate campaign was quickly reported in Perugia Today, an online publication also responsible for coining La Maledizione Amanda (“The Amanda Curse”) in a number of its articles, a term referring to the bad publicity Perugia has received due to the prolonged scandal that is the Meredith Kercher murder case, publicity which the publication attributes directly to me. The article claimed the hate campaign hoped their message would reach me and perhaps prompt a response. Usually I don’t respond to hateful messages and rather let them speak for themselves. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last time, that I’ve received hateful messages from proud, irrational people. Proud, because their sentiment is automatic defensiveness against legitimate criticism. Irrational, because criticism of the Meredith Kercher murder case scandal usually has nothing to do with these individuals personally and the hate they feel is the expression of irrational emotional investment that is based on impression rather than objective evidence. There are two reasons I bother to acknowledge these messages of hate in particular. The first is because these individuals claim to represent the feelings of Perugia as a whole. The second is because, while their disagreement with my declaration of innocence is implied, what these individuals choose to explicitly express is not a judgment, but a feeling that is irrelevant, if not impedimentary, to judgment. This is, unfortunately, not a surprise. Nothing is more expected than to be told I am hated because hate reflects the nature of the Meredith Kercher murder case scandal. Hate, in addition to pride, is one of the few things that can explain the prosecution’s biased investigation and persecution of Raffaele and me despite a distinct lack of objective evidence incriminating us and a distinct abundance of objective evidence incriminating a single, separate person: Rudy Guede. Whether they mean to or not, these Perugia Vi Odia people, who bear their emotions on placards, are helping me and the world to understand what has really happened in this case. Colpevolisti (“guilters”) lose their credibility once they reveal that their stance is founded upon irrational emotion rather than objective evidence. Justice cannot be expected to result from thinking tainted by pride and hate. I know for a fact that not everyone in Perugia hates me or believes I’m guilty. My family and I have received tremendous support from many Italians and Perugians in the form of verbal and written messages of sympathy and solidarity, legal and linguistic assistance, generous hospitality, and friendship. Ironically, Perugia Vi Odia simply reminds me of the part of Perugia they don’t represent. My love extends to the clear-headed, compassionate, and generous Perugia that my family and I came to know throughout my wrongful persecution and imprisonment at the hands of certain proud and hateful authorities, empowered by certain proud and hateful individuals.
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Post by Admin on Feb 17, 2014 7:25:54 GMT
People from around the world are showing their support for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito by posting photographs of themselves holding signs proclaiming the pair's innocence to Knox's Facebook page. The sign campaign comes after the re-conviction of Knox and Sollecito for the murder of Meredith Kercher Small but mighty: This tiny child lets her sign do the talking Knox and Sollecito's supporters are flooding social media with images of themselves proclaiming their innocence Knox returned to the United States after the original acquittal in October 2011 and has tried to return to her old life in Seattle. She quickly wrote a memoir and did a tour to promote the book in April last year, but has kept a low profile ever since. She is currently taking courses at the University of Washington but now the conviction poses a possible 28-year sentence that she has vowed to fight.
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Post by Admin on Feb 18, 2014 23:37:20 GMT
A previously unheard audio recording of Amanda Knox being interrogated by Italian police in 2007 over the murder of her flatmate Meredith Kercher has been revealed in a BBC documentary In the clip, recorded in December 2007, Amanda Knox can be heard trying to explain why she had accused Patrick Lumumba, the manager at the local café where she worked, of the crime. The audio was revealed by the BBC as part of the documentary 'Is Amanda Knox Guilty?'. Knox says stress led her to accuse an innocent man, Patrick Lumumba, of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher. “I was stressed,” she told authorities. “I was scared. It was after long hours in the middle of the night. I was innocent and they were telling me I was guilty.” The one-hour documentary Is Amanda Knox Guilty? focused on the latest developments in the Knox case. She was found guilty for the second time by an Italian judge on Jan. 30. The special was produced by filmmakers and journalists Paul Russell and Andrea Vogt, who have followed the Meredith Kercher murder case since it began in Nov. 2007. The documentary included interviews with Stephanie and Lyle Kercher, Meredith's sister and brother, as well as lawyers and experts from the prosecution and defense.
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