Posted on 02/01/2014 6:55:33 AM PST by yldstrk
Amanda Knox told Italian authorities that 'they'll have to catch me and pull me back kicking and screaming' following her guilty verdict for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
Her defiance raises the spectre of a long drawn-out extradition battle after the decision of judges in Florence to overrule her previous acquittal and sentence her to 28 years and six months in prison.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I think she has enough baggage to give her a wide berth, but I also remember O.J. had dates after his trial.
The Italian prosecutor could not have been more dirty in the original trial. Should have been dismissed after the first malpractice or life.
She reminds me of St. Pancake.
http://saberpoint.blogspot.com/2011/09/giuliano-mignini-clown-of-perugia.html
The link is just a good place to get warmed up. Giuliano Mignini is a well known crack pot in a justice system known for crackpots. If you are thinking that there is any resemblance to a western court you would be wrong. The prosecutor is part of the judiciary and essentially above the law himself. If I were Knox, I would be bugging out for an unknown country with no extradition treaty. Some of you all like to talk about bug out bags. Well, Knox will be using hers.
Is there any evidence that she ever, under any circumstances, had anything whatsoever to do with the fourth-world Sierra Leone dirtbag?
That is cold, man............But I agree this slinging of a "sociopath" diagnosis by amateurs that have never met the girl is beyond ridiculous.
Pretty interesting article, but there is no mention of how being abused for four years in an Italian jail might cause a person to learn to erase all affectation as a means of self-defense. If I were a Psychologist, I would resist making any kind of evaluation without sitting down with the subject face-to-face over several sessions. To make such an evaluation is to engage in Soviet-style ostracism.
The writer of the article had an obvious bias, considering it was written for a “Justice for Kercher” website.
“no mention of how being abused for four years in an Italian jail might cause a person to learn to erase all affectation”
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Given that one of the first things she did was to lie and put an innocent man in jail, why would anyone believe anything she said?
Much is being made that Knox appears to be “emotionless,” which is a major marker of a sociopath. The entire opening section of the article you linked does exactly that. I am merely pointing out that even a brilliant Psychologist cannot determine if her demeanor is that of a socio- or psychopath based on the TV interviews we’ve seen. That “emotionless demeanor” would be a pretty normal emotional defensive reaction after surviving four years in an Italian prison for a crime one didn’t commit.
I’m with the poster above who says people around here are throwing the “Sociopath” label rather freely when they don’t know Shineola about the patient. That’s what the old Soviets did to justify throwing them into the Gulag.
Meanwhile, the website to which you posted the link is about as emotion-driven and one-sided as I’ve seen. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I freely admit I don’t know enough about the case to asses guilt or innocence in my own heart, because I have no stake in it. It’s not like the George Zimmerman trial, where all of our rights to self-defense were under attack by racists.
marijuana ....’pot’ as you call it is a drug....
Oh, BTW, how do you know the man in jail is innocent?
Most people don’t know that the courtroom video is from what? 2009? She’s at home in Seattle during this process.
I’m referring to recent videos. I don’t know she was like in 2009. I was a little...busy that year.
The U.S. routinely ignores court orders from other countries as well. Name calling and personal opinion does little to forward your argument. I am neither retarded nor a globalist but she indeed could be guilty.
One wrong or unlucky event, and you'll find yourself sat down in court facing a prosecutor accusing you of participating in Satanic rituals in front of a jury of hyper-superstitious Latin grandmothers, or perhaps awaiting trial in a bamboo tiger cage having your head forced into a bucket of stinging beetles by laughing tattooed Macao gangsters, or being slapped awake under non-stop interrogation in France until they're either convinced you had nothing to do with the crime or they charge you with something, or having a New Mexico cop attack your bunghole with a power drill and a garden hose looking for that heroin they're sure you've hidden up there because you were trying to hold in a fart at a traffic stop.
Me, I don't even really like to travel outside of my own state.
And he is absolutely right as far as i can see. The verdict just isn`t final until all appeals have been heared. Ok, so the appeals process is not the same as in the US. So what? Would an Italian be prosecuted in the US according to Italian law? Thought not.
I know nothing about the Italian legal system, but if theirs are kangoroo courts why did the US ratify a bilateral Extradition Treaty with Italy? Probably because they didn`t find anything seriously wrong with it, including the way appeals work.
I don`t think the US can refuse extradition without Breach of Treaty should Knox be found guilty.
I am a heterosexual female, dude, prettier than Amanda
no interest whatsoever in her
“Oh, BTW, how do you know the man in jail is innocent?”
“Knox was ordered to pay Patrick Lumumba, the man originally accused by Knox of murdering Kercher, €10,000 in restitution as a result of her conviction for calunnia and €40,000 as compensation for Lumumba’s legal expenses he incurred to be represented at the first trial. The decision was upheld by the appeals court and Knox was sentenced to three years imprisonment, and ordered to pay a further €22,000.”
“For just a week later, he believes, 20-year-old Amanda took her revenge by framing the 38-year-old Perugian club owner for the murder of her British friend, Meredith Kercher, whose half-naked body was discovered in a pool of blood by police on November 2.
Amanda painted him as a violent sexual predator who had raped the 21-year-old student before savagely slitting her throat and left him to languish in jail for a fortnight for a crime he didn’t commit.
It was only last Tuesday, when police in the picturesque Italian hilltop town discovered DNA found on Meredith’s body belonged not to Patrick but to loner Rudy Guede, that he was finally freed.”
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