Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2014 21:27:15 GMT
Amanda Knox, the American accused of killing her British flatmate Meredith Kercher, has said she will become a fugitive from justice if an Italian court decides later this month to uphold her murder conviction.
She and her co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, are in the final stretches of a second appeal against convictions handed down in 2009. But the Seattle-based student, as is her right under Italian law, has not returned to Italy for the new proceedings at the Florence appeals court, saying she fears being found guilty and sent back to jail.
And, in an interview on Thursday, she appeared to confirm that she has no intention of returning to Italy if the verdict goes against her. Asked by the daily newspaper La Repubblica what she would do if her conviction were upheld, she was quoted as saying: "In that case I will be – how do you put it? – a fugitive."
In her interview, Knox said that although she was reasonably optimistic about the verdict, she was also approaching it with trepidation as "every time that I've thought my innocence would be acknowledged I have been convicted".
She said she badly wanted to talk directly with Kercher's family, but was aware that such a move would not be welcome. "I still want to talk with them, tell them directly that I had nothing to do with Meredith's death, that I cared about her and that we were friends," she was quoted as saying. "But I know that they see me as their daughter's murderer [and] are convinced that it was me who killed her, and so it is still not the moment to speak with them. But that day will come."
To everyone who can speak Italian and/or has the patience to decipher Google translations, here are the transcriptions of the Kercher’s attorneys’ and my attorneys’ closing arguments. These occurred on the 16th and 17th of December 2013, respectively.
16 Dec 2013 - Closing arguments by civil attorneys E. Vieri Fabiani, Serena Perna, & Francesco Maresca for the Kercher family. Original Italian.
17 Dec 2013 - Closing arguments by defense attorneys Luciano Ghirga & Carlo Dalla Vedova for Knox. Original Italian.
Thank you again to everyone who is taking the time to look into this case.
~a
She and her co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, are in the final stretches of a second appeal against convictions handed down in 2009. But the Seattle-based student, as is her right under Italian law, has not returned to Italy for the new proceedings at the Florence appeals court, saying she fears being found guilty and sent back to jail.
And, in an interview on Thursday, she appeared to confirm that she has no intention of returning to Italy if the verdict goes against her. Asked by the daily newspaper La Repubblica what she would do if her conviction were upheld, she was quoted as saying: "In that case I will be – how do you put it? – a fugitive."
In her interview, Knox said that although she was reasonably optimistic about the verdict, she was also approaching it with trepidation as "every time that I've thought my innocence would be acknowledged I have been convicted".
She said she badly wanted to talk directly with Kercher's family, but was aware that such a move would not be welcome. "I still want to talk with them, tell them directly that I had nothing to do with Meredith's death, that I cared about her and that we were friends," she was quoted as saying. "But I know that they see me as their daughter's murderer [and] are convinced that it was me who killed her, and so it is still not the moment to speak with them. But that day will come."
To everyone who can speak Italian and/or has the patience to decipher Google translations, here are the transcriptions of the Kercher’s attorneys’ and my attorneys’ closing arguments. These occurred on the 16th and 17th of December 2013, respectively.
16 Dec 2013 - Closing arguments by civil attorneys E. Vieri Fabiani, Serena Perna, & Francesco Maresca for the Kercher family. Original Italian.
17 Dec 2013 - Closing arguments by defense attorneys Luciano Ghirga & Carlo Dalla Vedova for Knox. Original Italian.
Thank you again to everyone who is taking the time to look into this case.
~a