Amanda Knox Trial Update

• There are plenty of Americans who speak more than one language. I myself speak three languages fluently, and two others with modest proficiency.  This comment just illustrates European prejudice and stereotypes against Americans.  Although an American, I am no fan of this country.  It has many, many flaws.  And it is fair to say that irrespective of who committed this crime, the entire process was botched horrendously from beginning to end.  In the US, a confession gleaned after 50 hours without counsel, without food or drink, under constant pressure to confess, and in a language of which the person of interest did not have complete mastery would not pass the sniff test, and would be inadmissible, for excellent reason.  Such a confession is completely unreliable, all the more so when the confessor is a 20 year old impressionable child.  The crime scene investigators did a piss poor job collecting evidence, the tape of them handing the bra clasp around and only afterwards putting it onto the floor to be photographed is infamous, and this occurred 47 days after poor Meredith was murdered.  Thanks to the flawed investigation techniques used by the police it is likely the true events of this crime will never be fully elicited.  And to allow a prosecutor to try the case where he has been convicted of wrongdoing in a previous case - and where he has used similar theories of crimes and the same drug-addled eye witness (I understand their so-called witness who placed Ms. Knox and Raffaele Sollecito at the scene has testified in THREE other murder trials, which is curious, to say the least, given the low violent crime rate in Italy compared to big cities in the US... to say that this fellow has witnessed not one, but three, violent crimes is rather singular, to say the least), that prosecutor has no credibility at all.  In my state, he would lose his licence to practice law, as well he should do.  His conduct, and the work of the police investigators, can be directly thanked for ensuring there will never be true justice for Meredith Kercher.  He should be in jail.

• i agree 100% fianlly someone with some sense.

• just because shes american and pretty doesnt mean shit you dont know anything i dont know anything honestly from what ive read shes guilty and trying to play innocent ok well ive been to italy and ive never been treated bad also what does that matter ?? your probly just some redneck who wants to tail amanda knox

• you know amanda knox personally ?? are you serious or just a fan of someones life being ruined

• actually there was evidence against her her shoe print was in the victims bedroom

• i think amanda needs to take a polygraphic test and find out the results, im am shocked that a girl like this after seeing a reading all about this incident, im not sure what to believe, ive been reading up on this story for 6 years now, and i still dont understand why someone would do such a thing, i mean WOW you have some nerve to LIE and kill a poor inicent student, out of what GUILT! im not very happy im acutally very sad about all this for the family who lost a child and the victums who were stagged at the crime scene! MAY GOD BE WITH YOU ALL! I sure hope the truth will come out of one of you very soon. The only person who knows the whole truth about all this IS GOD! He sees all and knows all, Amanda you need to pray right now and ask for gods forgiveness, and some one needs to own up to the responsibilty of this action, of one life who has been taken, and i know it may haunt you for the rest of your lives. But i think AMANDA KNOX IS GUILTY !

• For all of you who "Think" she is guilty go read the "Facts" about why Former FBI agent Steve Moore was fired for speaking out about the case, you may change your mind. And remember not everything you here in the media is the truth, all of you Liberal close minded Dems!!!!

• A few things to note: "Circumstantial evidence" does not constitute "proof" of guilt. This case has nothing but circumstantial evidence against Amanda Knox, whereas things are different for the drifter Rudy, who's bloody fingerprint (matched completely) was found on a pillow under the victim's body). The bra clasp: The boyfriend could have fondled the clasp lying on the floor when visiting. This may be less clear, and he may be involved, but this does by no means constitute "proof". His footprints were not at the crime scene, as testified by an expert witness. The DNA in the sink of the shared bathroom: Amanda used the same bathroom. No surprise her DNA was found -- DNA traces of you are in your bathrooms a-plenty. The fact that she didn't call in the murder immediately: The door to the room where the victim was lying dead was locked from the inside, which means Meredith must have done so herself, or the murderer gone out through a window. Traces of bleach on the knife? Really? You've never cleaned a knife with bleach to sanitize it? Meredith couldn't have visited Amanda's new boyfriend for dinner and helped out? This can, of course, be confirmed or refuted. The media has shown its utter lack of self-restraint and revelled in the same stories of sexual depravation and satanic rituals they always do. This is the mark of religious superstition, not fact. You all have sex (in all kinds of ways), and satanic rituals have little to do with killing people (where are all the alleged satanists?); look up the numerous investigations into this and you'll see the "confessions" of religious youngsters at the heart of all cases. Again, typical of religiously fuled superstition and guilt. You people, though, who buy the newspapers and demand nothing more than drama should grow up. Most of you know nothing about legal practice. What you do have is your common sense, and common sense says Amanda Knox is in prison because of the huge cross hanging behind the judge and all the hysteria that has caused throughout history. A young woman at a jesuit college does not suddenly become a murderer. Doubly-y cromosome men do this, but they practically never get caught the first time, and they kill a whole lot more than 1 before they do. The case is a disgrace, and the judge is a mockery of legal justice in-persona.

• the italisn police have no clue what they are doing and who really killed poor merideth. I would think twice abput visiting. I would never send my child there. They need to wake up let Amanda go and re investigate properly

• amanda knox isnt guilty the italy pigs are framing her and there wrong for making a movie about her. italy pigs are so screwed up they think usa is stupid i dont think she did it.

• Just finishing up my BA in criminal justice....one thing I can say for sure, as many of you already know, labs get it wrong in quite a few cases. Here in the states, that carries a lot of weight and can result in a case being thrown out....that's why labs must get it right. Amanda doesn't have the possibility of leaving it up to a jury(and they call our jury system "ridiculous").

• you people are idiots,there's not one shred of evidence. and they caught the guy who did this and wait wait evidence points towards him, he ran like a scared deer but they stayed. Amanda i hope there is justices for you.

• uh.... What you say stephanie jill galante "medical illness " you make-um- no sence-

• hey people i am sorry meredith kercher family for your loss but i hope you english/ british don not think that i am amanda know becasue im not i was not allowed out of the country(us) california to go to italy and she from washington state i have a medical illness leave me alone she in jail forever stephanie jill galante

• My feelings toward this case is that she will have served a majority of a life sentence when the trial comes to closure. On another note, she is learning alot of culture where she is at. Good luck Amanda on getting to live any normal life....GUILTY as charged....

• Sally: Shut it. Americans have the right to travel abroad, and we take the chance whether or not we are wanted there or not. Regardless we have the right to visit outher countries. I have visited many foreign countries and I got the best treatment ever. Then how about you keep your sorry a** out of my country if that is the way you think about Americans. Perhaps we don't want you here. You come here, then leave; the door is open.

• "The knife" was an ordinary kitchen knife from a kitchen drawer in Raffaele's apartment. There is no evidence that it was ever at Meredith and Amanda's apartment. It was plucked from his drawer because "it looked scrubbed." The knife was clean. The knife had Amanda's DNA on the handle simply because she cooked with it. A sample was swabbed from the knife blade. It was tested for blood with an extremely sensitive test. The result was negative. There was NO blood on the knife blade. NO BLOOD WAS ON THE KNIFE. The rest of the sample was tested in a lab along with large quantities of Meredith's DNA. Cross contamination of DNA samples is a common problem. It happens in every laboratory. It is a fact of life. All of the sample was used for a single, deeply flawed test. The test did not follow any standard protocol. The test can never be checked. It cannot be reproduced. The initial results were negative. No DNA. The machine parameters were then over-ridden, producing results that are typical of contamination, trillionths of a gram of DNA. That DNA came from contamination in the lab, not from the blade. If the DNA had come from the blade, the blood tests would not have been negative. The DNA cannot have come from the blade. NO DNA WAS ON THE KNIFE BLADE. A knife boiled in acid would have given the same test results. There was no blood on the blade. There was no DNA on the blade. The knife does not match most of Meredith's wounds. It was much too large. The knife does not match a bloody knife imprint left on the pillow by her body. The knife had nothing to do with the murder of Meredith Kercher. GUEDE is guilty. Amanda and Rafaelle are innocent

• sam, Just because your wrote this, does not make it so! What is this garbage about Amanda's handprint on MK's neck? If so, why wasn't that presented at trial.The majority of your claims were not admitted as evidence. Tell me how A&R did such a great job cleaning up there own DNA and blood, but not GUEDE's??! That is impossible to do. Guede is guilty here. The one thing that stands out also is lack of motive. There is no motive? SEx games?????-what a bunch of bunk! A&R are innocent. There is No violence or criminal element in their respective pasts. All of a sudden they become sociopathic murderers? come on Sam, get the facts straight. These kids are innocent

• A few very important pieces of evidence that the American media did not post: the chock hold bruising on Meredith's neck fits Amanda's hand, Amanda claimed she tried Meredith's door but the handle was wiped clean of prints, she claims she showered and then dried her hair in Filomena's bathroom but there were no finger prints there either as all surfaces were wiped of prints (also, nobody would have dried their hair in that bathroom and not flushed the toilet because it reeked in there as Italian toilets are dry until flushed, the phone calls that Amanda and RS said they made to the police occured 20 to 25 minutes after the postal police showed up by surprise-- 3 witnesses said Amanda and RS went into her room and shut the door and were in there for 15 minutes while the postal police were looking around and this is the exact time frame of the cover-up calls Amanda made to her mom which stated that she was there alone, and RS calling the crime police, and Amanda calling Meredith's cell and letting it "ring and ring" (record shows 3 seconds only). When comfronted with the phone records, RS told police he lied about everything. Amanda's statement to the court (her chance to tell what really happened and why there were misunderstandings) is a mess of ums and pauses and tells no information-- you can listen to the actual tape. She did not just cover her ears during the attack, she definitey chocked Meredith and she definitely cleaned the hallway and bathroom. She definitely was in Merediths room because her exact size shoe print is in there. The body was moved and the bra was definitely removed after the blood had dried and RS dna on the clasp shows he did this. The power point mm by mm match of the visible bloody foot print on the bathmat to Sollecito was there because they did not have time to clean the bathroom before the postal police came by surprise. The footprint is an exact match to his foot including his inward bent big toe. They were going to clean the bathroom last which makes sence since they had to wash things there. Amanda put in a load of Merediths clothes either to remove their footprints from the clothes that were laying in Meredith's bedroom or to make it look like Meredith had followed through and done her laundry that evening. Again, the surprise visit by the postal police while the machine was still running made it clear that Amanda and RS had started the washer because they were the only ones there in that time frame! Innocent people have innocent answers for things and these two never produced any answers.

• It is clear that the strong evidence against Amanda Knox and RS was not reported in American newspapers. Lots of physical evidence at the crime scene and so much circumstantial evidence that if the court threw 75% of it out you would still be left with proof of their guilt. Please wait for the full report of the evidence before "sending $20 a month" to the save Amanda fund. It is a blessing that this monster was jailed before she killed anyone else. Apparently, the details of the torture/murder crime scene are horrific. Why doen't Amanda submit to a psychological exam by a team of experts to shore up her defence? Because her lawyers and parents know that they will find a very disturbed, criminal mind.

• Today is DECEMBER 25th, 2009. A COMPLETELY "INNOCENT" young American Girl--Amanda Knox & a COMPLETELY "INNOCENT" young Italian Boy---Raffaele Sollecito, are sitting in prison "Falsely Convicted" by a ROGUE PROSECUTOR, who was embarrassed at having the world discover, his "CRAZY SATANIC SEX CRIME" theories would be laughed at by the world. (REMEMBER--this is the 2nd time he has used the SATANIC SEX crimes story in just 1 year) ALL I can say to AMERICAN PARENTS IS:...When you send your kids to any country besides...CANADA, AUSTRALIA, ENGLAND/IRELAND....on Vacation or for School...YOU ARE PUTTING THIER LIVES AT RISK!! UNLESS you are really RICH and POWERFULL....LEARN what "HELL" can happen to those you love. From "Natalie Holliday" (Killed or Sold into White Slavery) while visiting ARUBA, to AMANDA KNOX in ITALY....(AMERICANS) should stop sending thier kids..."Away" to other countries, because the world is an "unbelievably unsafe" place. I hope the ITALIEN JUSTICE SYSTEM (Which is a "joke" with all the MOB/MAFIA people practically running the country) will decide the "bad publicity" against travel by Americans to ITALY is the reason to "void" her conviction. BUT otherwise....I expect the ITALIEN GUARDS are just hoping her parents run out of money...and have to leave Italy...so they can move forward with their plans to "RAPE THE PRETTY AMERICAN GIRL"....!! (Disgusting..but..true) (NOTE--If you are an AMERICAN GIRL in ITALY...they PRACTICALLY CHASE you down the STREET, Trying to get you to have sex, because they think all AMERICAN GIRLS are "Easy".)

• Continueing on; As to your claim Jason, where you say and I quote ("The fact is that you don't know assuming your premis") unquote, you are absolutely wrong in making this claim. It is you who are assuming when you make this claim. Then there's premis, as pertaining to facts in a legal document or deed. so what you were really saying was I assumed my facts were true. why not just come out and say what you mean in the most direct way possible. ("You assume that your facts are true"). would have been a more direct way to express what you mean than ("The fact is that you don't know assuming your premise"). But I guess everyone has to work out of their own shop. Had you and all of Amanda Knoxe's detractors and persecutors took the time out to investigate the evidence thus far put out by both the Prosecution as well as the Defense, you people could not have come to the conclusion that you have unless you had an underlying and biased motive. Depending upon what race you people are, your either a prejudiced bunch of lunitic conspiresy theorists, a racially motivated mob of bigots, or a combination of both. On ("assuming my premise") as said by you, is just one example of someone using big words to get their message across in a manner that they think would make them look knowledgable, you do this throughout your entire comment letter. As I stated earlier in my comment, when one uses big words in statements where big words are unnecessary at getting their point across, that person, or those people who do so then come across as uninteligent and verbose. A perfect example is Jesse Jackson, If Jesse Jackson was being questioned as to his whereabouts during some crime, the jury would have to sit through half an hour of poetry just to hear him say " I can't remember". So, for the jury to hear 2 seconds of testimony they would have to sit and listen to a half hour of poetic crap and bullshit. now this crime testimony with Jesse Jackson is of course Hyperthetical, but the bullshit and crap that jourors in the Amanda Knox Murder trial was allowed to listen to was not. Vicious innuendo, charachter assassination, and outright lies were what Italy, the world and more importently the pool of jurers were aloud to listen to, while they were being published in the name of journalism. this journalistic bile, most certainly had an adverse affect on the Amanda Knox trial and most assuradely prejudiced the entire Jury against her, A jury that would hear testimony for and against Amanda Knox all throughout her entire trial culminating in conviction for a crime which evidence clearly shows she did not commit. I've gone into great detail to show my feelings about this case because I truely believe that the Government of Italy and it's Judicial system did with malice and intent destroy the life of a Young, Intelegent and Beautiful American Woman who had her whole life ahead of her and did so through minipulation of testimony as well as falsefying and omitting evidence, not to mention the use of the media's Character Assassination of her to influence the jury's image of Amanda in negative way thereby ensuring a verdic of guilty at trial. This young woman deserves more than a few lines in a comment page in her defense. That is why I am writing to this extent. Next up the evidence based on fact.

• Amanda and Rafaelle are innocent. There is no concrete proof of any physical evidence. Much of the defense evidence and testimony was disallowed at the trial. This in itself is a crime. What is the possible motive for rafaelle and Amanda to committ murder? Where is even a hint of violence in their past? If Amanda secretly harbored any ill will at all toward Meredith, don't you think there would exist an email, text and/or voice mail that would support that claim? It does not exist because Amanda is innocent. Geude is guilty of this crime. He raped, robbed and murdered Meredith by himself.

• To Jason Law: I see that you read my comment on Amanda Knox, That's good Jason, but before I converse with you on a very important subject such as the Amanda Knox trial and conviction, I would like to touch base with you on one very important issue. First and formost when someone uses a conglomerite of big words to show their inteligence, that someone is accomplishing just the opposite. They are instead showing themselves to be verbose. Jason you stated in your comment to me, and I quote ("MJM, you claim to not have knowledge of anything but you have read, then use that as your basis for claiming Knox was fraimed, this can't be true, based upon Logic. The fact is that you don't know assuming your premis"). I can see from all the incoherent, bigoted, fact dodging "where it suits them" detractors of Amanda Knox, that I now have to deal with, that I have my work cut out for me (as to getting the facts straight), and that I'll have to cross every T and dot every i. First and formost Jason I don't claim anything concerning the persecution of Amanda Knox or her case, trial, and subsequent conviction for murder. I make statements based on fact, facts that I aquire by searching through pertinent information as related to the subject matter of the project in question. I do not make claims. As in the claim you atribute to me, and I quote ("MJM, you claim to not have knowledge of anything but you read, then use that as your basis for claiming Knox was framed, this can't be true, based upon logic. The fact is that you don't know assuming your premis). Now here's what I said! and I quote "To all the people who support Amanda Knox, I am someone who has never met her, had never known her, nor had I ever Known anything about her. What I do now know about her and her past comes from the TV and knews broadcasts, you could say that I really don't know very much about her at all and you'd be right. But then again could any of you good people who support her or any of you dirt bags who condemn her, you who are not family or friend, having never known her, Know more about her than I do? I don't think so?" unquote. Fact number #1, I did not claim to not have knowledge of anything but from what I read and read only. And then use that as your basis for claiming Knox was fraimed. I stated factually that I had never known anything about Amanda Knox past or present and what I now know I got from the Newspapers and the newsmedia. Fact number #2, I did not base my findings on the Amanda Knox case on what I read from where ever I supposedly read it. I based my findings "all my findings" on from whatever evidence I was able to obtain from the Prosecution as well as the Defense in the Amanda Knox Murder case and trial as well as the subsequent conviction. which I obtained from not only what I read in the newspaper as what was sugjested but from TV broad casts and internet as well. Fact number #3, I never claimed nor did I ever state that Amanda Knox was framed, although now that you brought it up that could be a very good possibility from all the evidence that I've read about so far.I'll have to study that further. Fact number #4 "Not true and can be true. You claimed that I said that Amanda was framed, this is not true. Then in relation to your untruthful statement as to my saying that Amanda Knox was framed your claim was that this can't be true based upon logic but after re-examining the evidence it most certainly can be true Fact number #5 This Can't be true based upon logic. Are you for real you and all the other detractors of Amanda Knox would'nt know logic even if it was stareing you square in the face. My searching for and acquireing evidence based on fact is logical, your fishing for dirt, and judging them on hearsay testimony in order to satisfy your politically bigoted agenda is both immoral and illogical and that's fact number on #5. Fact number #6 None of the evidence that I base my support for Amanda Knox on was assumed, it was based entirely on facts that I acquired from reading the reports of the case put forth by the prosecution an the defense exactly where you and all of Amanda Knoxes detractors got them before all of you so conviently decided to ignore them. To be continued.

• I believe the knife was found at Rafaels place and had been bleached, the bleach odour made the police suspecious, how did the victims DNA get on this knife. the knife print on the sheets, the sheets are wrinkled so when you strech them out the print would look much bigger. knife wound, was it made by a slice, a thrust or a carve and maybe with twist, what are the probabilities of finding the right knife for this wound.

• Only very few Americans attacked Italy over this case, Knox family hired a PR company and they did everything they could to present Amanda as a victim. This case is basically lie if you have to and if your caught blame it on policy tacticts and hope that lack of evidence will get you aquited.

• 1) her footprints were not at the scene 2) her dna was not on the bra clasp 3) the knife that had meridths dna did not fit the imprint of the knife in the blood. 1. her footprints were at the scene, according to all the evidence reports I have read. Define "scene"? Amanda's footprint was found outside the victim's door, using Luminol. The bathroom next to the room where the body was found shows a bloody footprint that the prosecution says matches the ex-boyfriend's, but more importantly there are no other footprints that lead to that print. That indicates that the other prints were cleaned, but they couldn't get them off the mat well enough to avoid forensics. There is also a footprint under the head of the victim that the prosecution says matches a woman's footprint, but it's not conclusive. The defense, of course, says it belons to Guede. 2. Her DNA doesn't have to be on the bra clasp, her ex-boyfriend's was. Her bloody footprint was found through luminol outside the victim's door and elsewhere. 3. The smoking gun is the bleach found on the knife with the victim's DNA and Knox's DNA on the handle. It is disputed as to whether the knife matches the wounds, but there also may have been another knife used in the murder. If you read all the reports, carefully, you'll see that it without any reasonable doubt points to the involvement of Knox and the ex-boyfriend. The bleach, the laundry machine running when the police arrived. Knox returning to the scene and showering up and seeing the blood and then not calling the police until after being questioned, then lying about when and what she told her mother on the morning she did call. The cell phones being cut off and cut on earlier than the 10 am that Knox claims she slept in to, before returning to the scene. There was no break in, but one was staged and this was part of Knox's original call when she finally did call the police. The only people who benefit from a staged breakdown are Knox and the ex-boyfriend. Knox also called the other roomate checking to report the victim's door was locked, then hung up after only a few rings and left no message. The lies are to protect the guilty, and the total evidence when combined with lies from both Knox and the boyfriend are overwhelming proof that they participated at some level and lied about it. And the notion that one would have told on the other, in two weeks, that's total nonsense. I've seen a case go over a year before the suspects sang against one another. In this case, the ex-boyfriend's already sung, to a degree, changing his story and saying he doesn't remember if Knox was with him in his aparment at the time of the murder. Their will be more singing, as the appeal paths play out. Also, for those defending sex, it's an entirely different story to give private sexual history (to wit: I slept with him the first time". That's the sign of an ego disorder, and consistent with someone who is capable of particpating in a murder and then lying about it.

• MJM, you claim to not have knowledge of anything but you have read, then use that as your basis for claiming Knox was framed. This can't be true, based upon logic. The fact is that you don't know, assuming your premise. The Italian prejudice conspiracy theory is weak, but a lazy way to claim her innocence. Unless her own written statement and the retractions of both her and her ex-boyfriend's statements are made up, and unless the physical evidence is just made up about the bleach, cell phones turned off, the mother's testimony about the converstaion the next day, this girl is culpbably and participated at some level. Was she lying when she saw blood and though nothing of it? Why was the laundry machine running late that moring when the authorities arrived? One has to assume that the timing of when the crime was reported, the cell phone reports, all of that is made up. There is no way amateur potheads are going to leave a murder scene in a state that does anything but inculpates or exculpates them. Her boyfriend and her were both caught lying, unless the reports are false. I've never read any report from the defense that their stories were not recanted. The details from Knox about "I had sex with him the first time" doesn't reflect an innocent and naive young girl. It reflects a person with an ego disorder, at a minimum. One of them will eventually come out and sing, and the ex-boyfriend has already done that to a degree by admitting he lied based upon Knox's story (unless that's false). When one of them does sing, it will be clear that both participated at some level, but the details of that participation will become much clearer.

• "When she made those confessions, she was terrified, confused and most likely more than a bit inebriated." You don't know what here state of mind was, you are post hoc rationalizing it. One has to look at the total evidence. From that, you have proof that Amanda Knox returned to the crime scene and showered. She then failed to call the police until after she had been questioned on the site. The details of her confession show someone who wasn't coerced. You don't make up details like that, if coerced. You simply say you don't remember, you were intoxicated, and that you admit to being there to get the cops off your back. She says she doesn't remember if her boytoy was there or not. Because the ex-boyfriend and Knox can't possibly get the lie straight, they were both caught lying about where they were at the time of the murder. Knox then reveals intimate details about having sex with her ex-boyfriend, "the first time". This isn't a detail that needs to be revealed, and is a manifest symtom of an ego disorder. There is no way to prove exactly what her participation was, but the evidece is clear that she participated in some way and then lied about it. The same for her ex-boyfriend. Had they simply been silent or told the truth the first time, they probably could have plead to a lesser crime. The bleach on the knife is a smoking gun, unless bleach is the dishwashing liquid in Italia. I doubt that;) Knox's contradiction of her mother's testimony as to when she called and what was said, the entire record shows that Knox and her boyfriend are liars. There is no credible evidence that anyone broke in, yet Knox claims the door was open when she returned the next morning. She was the only one of the three suspects who had a key, yet claims the door was open. She then admits to seeing blood and took a shower. When the first authorities arrived, they said a washing machine was running. The break-in was staged, as the glass was on top of the ransacked bedroom. The evidence shows there was bleach used to clean up at her ex-boyfriends. They both claim they were at his apartment but the ex-boyfriend says he doesn't remember if Knox was there or not. Clearly, he's a liar and admitted he was lying to cover for Knox. Knox, in the diallowed confession says she doesn't remember if her ex-boyfriend was there or not. Smoking pot isn't going to impair your memory to the point where you don't know whether your boyfriend was there. She uses every lie in the book. Says she was doped up and doesn't remember. Then says she knows she was with the ex-boyfriend, but the boyfriend can't remember if she was there or not. She then claims she slept in to about 10 AM, but her cellphone was turned off and turned on again earlier that morning. There is no way to know who did what, exactly, as to the direct cause of the death, but it's obvious that both Knox and the ex-boyfriend had knowledge of the murder and participated before or during or after the fact. When they started telling lies, this was their mistake. Either don't say anything, or tell the truth. That's how the system works, even in Italy.

• Just to square away the sentence on line #40 of my last letter where it states " she was convicted and who has now begun serving what amounts to a life sentance is too much to ask of myself" should have stated "is not too much to ask of myself".

• To all the People who support Amanda Knox: I am someone who, has never met her, Had never known her, nor had I ever known anything about her. What I do now Know about her and her past comes from the newsmedia, from the newspapers and TV broadcasts. You could say that I really don't know very much about her at all, and you'd be right, but then again could any of you good people who support her or any of you dirtbags who condemn her, You who are not of family or friend, having never known her, know more about her than I do? I don't believe so. I do belive however that she is INNOCENT of all charges which she was convicted of do to All the chicanery, lies and deceit that were conjured up and used against her throughout her entire trial by the Italian Government and it's justice system. I am not an expert on crime, I don't have any degree's in criminal history like the special criminal investigators that the prosecutors and defense attorney's hired. But if anyone wants to know just how good or bad these special investigators are or can be just take a look at the lawsuit cases filed against the tobaco companies. On both sides you had the very best Lawyers, Doctors, Special Investigators, scientists and chemists that money could buy. After years and years of so-called Professional, legal, medical, and scientific investigation there was a verdict, The victims of the tobaco indusrty won and the tobaco companies lost. With all the professional expert testimony given and sworn to by Lawyers, Doctors, Scientists and chemists on both sides this became not a case of who won and who lost, But instead a case of who lied and who told the truth. And we're not talking about the plaintifs and the defendants here, we're talking about the Professionals and the experts, the Lawyers, Doctors, Scientists and Chemists of the losing side did'nt just lose they lied. And guess who came out on top, The Lawyers, Doctors, Scientists and Chemists for both the winning and the losing side came out on top they all got paid, so did the US government, But the plaintiffs or victims most of them are still waiting for their money upon appeal This is the same bile that Amanda Knox and Natalee Holloway were up against, corrupt and vile, unlike the victims of the tobaco companies, Amanda Knox And Natalee Holloway also had to deal with vicious lies and unending dehumanizing and perverted inuendo, Racism, Anti Americanism and prejudice purpotrated by a pack of liars, perverts and racists. This letter is in no way shape or form ment to disparage the Italian people of whom many are my good friends. This Letter is to the supporters of Amanda Knox and her Family it was written by a complete stranger who believes fully in her INNOCENCE of the crime that she has been convicted of. The letter is a long one I agree, but it's ment for Ammanda's Supporters and future supporters. This young woman has already spent 2 years in prison awaiting trial and has now begun serving another 26 years in prison for a crime that she did not commit. Therefore I do not believe that for me to take a few moments of my time to write what amounts to a two page letter in defense of a BEAUTIFULL, INTELEGENT, YOUNG WOMAN who is INNOCENT of the crime that she was convicted and who has now begun serving what amounts to a life sentance is too much to ask of myself and I don't believe it is to much to ask of her supporters to read. Just a moment of your time. I'm putting my money where my mouth is I have sent $20.00 dollars to the Amanda Legal Defense Fund, PO Box 47231 Seattle WA 98146. And I will be sending $20.00 dollars a month till she's brought home. I'll be sending more than that from time to time, but The $20.00 a month will be going from my pention account Directly into the Amanda Legal Defense Fund. It's easy to drop one or two line comments to make one feel good about them selves pro or con. Its another to send A few dollars to someone who really needs it. And this poor young lady needs help, send a few dollars she's one of our own. I have absolutely nothing to do with this defense fund but it's there so im going to give to it, that's what it's there for. $20.00 dollars a month is A drop in the bucket "if that" but if what I see in the form of support on the internet and in the news is any indication of whether or not this young woman can be brought home to her loved ones, she can, but it's gonna take a lot of money Hillery Clinton the US justice system nor the Italian Government are going to do a thing to bring this young INNOCENT American home to her loved ones so it's up to you and I. Give what you can she's one of our own.

• to everyone and anyone concerned with this case for whatever reason, there seems to be a pattern here, "I say seems to be" for all you folk out there that are too blind, ignorant, or both to clearly see a pattern. Do any of you people remember a young woman by the name of Natalee Holoway. you remember what happened to her? she was a victom of foul play, "most definately" But the case went no where, why? because everyone was too concerned with condemning the victem who in this case happened to be white, God forbid that anyone should go after Aruba's home boy and his two minority accomplices, not with all the cercumstantial evidance as well as eyewitness testimony against them, no instead the legal system's of holland and Aruba decided, with the help of all the major news agencies all ovar the world as well as all the good old news agencies here in America that they would go after the victom instead. You do remember don't you They trashed the shit out of that poor girl and her family, They the news agencies and all the same shitbags who are now trashing Amanda Knox and her family are at it again. They like to talk about equal justice, well let them take their foot out of their mouth and put their money where there mouth is and give this other victom Meredith Kercher the same justice or injustice that they gave Natalee Holloway. They can start by trashing her life stile and by trashing her parents and family as well, and if they have a problem finding any dirt on Ms Kercher, which I'm sure they wont won't have, they can always make it up just like they've done with Amanda Knox and Natalee Holloway. Personally from The evidence gathered so far, it clearly shows a three way connection not a four way one. It was a threesom gone wrong and Amanda had no part in the crime as far as the rape and murder were concerned. Did she take part in a coverup possibly, she was definately trying to protect her boyfriend, but before she knew anything about her roomate having been murdered. If, and I say "if" she was involved after the fact in unknowingly covering up a murder then she should have been punished. But since she had been so grosely and viciously attacked and denigrated by all who claimed to be seeking justice, but who in the process unjustly accused and convicted her not on Physical and or circumstantial evidence collected at the scene of the crime, but instead by vertue of her race, religion, ethnicity, as well as her National origin, this young woman should be set free and exohonorated of any and all crimes against her, as far as Ms Kercher is concerned she should not have trusted her two friends, the the Ivory coast rapist, and his made in Italy Italian pervert friend. I stated during and after the Natalee Holloway case that if the victim happened to be Black, Jewish, or Hispanic and the alledged murdereror or murderers were white and not from that Island (Aruba) but instead from the United States, that no amount of evidence in their favor could have or would have saved them from a coviction of murder. Fast forward to the Amanda Knox case, A Black(Ethiopian)Jew victom, and A white Christian American "She Devil" The poor girl never stood a chance

• Amanda Knox Is innocent pure and simple, the Italian political, as well their judicial system is full of cowardly and corrupt perverts, Period.

• Amanda is guilty. Italian judges did collected evidences that lead at the final verdict. It's not Salem, it's not unfair it's justice. Despite her angelical face, she is a killer! Ps. In Italy there is not dead penality, but she is rich and comes from upper class, so in America she would be fine. Now a senator and HiLLARY CLINTON are asking Amanda releaase. that's make me sick! I am sure that if Amanda was poor and black nobody in USA would care about her case. But she is white and rich so...

• The Prosecutor - A Prosecutor who is under investigation for misconduct in a previous murder case is allowed to try Amanda Knox. Why? Perhaps the corruption and information on this Prosecutor who is under investigation will come out over the course of the next year. The Prosecutor spent most of the case trying to destroy Amanda's character - basically calling her capable of murder because she had a boyfriend and occasionally smoked pot. In the US her "sex life" would have not been allowed as evidence. In Italy, the Prosecutor made it the major part of the case from day one, making up lies as he went along. They say that he went for the "sex" angle because his physical evidence was non-existent.

• The DNA - The knife that supposedly had Amanda's DNA was not the murder weapon and it was not found at the scene of the crime. The actual knife left behind an impression in the sheets and it shows that a much smaller knife was used. Also, the wound in the victims neck shows a smaller knife was used. This particular knife could very likely have the DNA of both girls because both would have used it - for cooking! This knife would have been laughed at in a court in the US as a joke! Amanda's attorney was never allowed to bring in any experts to look at or challenge this DNA "evidence". The traces of DNA that were found in a sink, were found in a sink that was Amanda's sink, she shared this bathroom with her roommate that was murdered. There is absolutely no physical evidence that Amanda Knox was in any way involved with this crime and expert after expert has said this.

• The cartwheel lies - Amanda was put in a room for 7 hours to wait to talk to the police. During the wait she got up and started doing stretches because she was stiff from sitting for hours. An Italian cop told her "you look like a gymnast". He asked if she could do a cartwheel and she said yes and then did a cartwheel. Amanda Knox went shopping for underwear because she was not allowed back into her apartment to retrieve any of her personal belongings. She was video taped by the press as she was going around buying/replacing the items she could not retrieve from her apartment. So what did the press say? Amanda Knox does cartwheels at the police station and goes shopping for sexy underwear!

• Ok.. first of all.. it is sickening to keep on hearing that there is no evidence against her. And that the State Department will get involved to free her.. are you nuts?? a convicted murderer? are you also smoking up a pot-tree nightly? Actually there is objective evidence - lots, 13 elements READ Limone, who on 5/3/09 writes... "They litterally do not have one SINGLE piece of evidence against her" There are 13 pieces of forensic evidence that link Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito to the crime scene. Patrizia Stefanoni is quite unequivocal about the double DNA knife. She states it is Meredith's DNA on the blade. Dr. Renato Biondo, the head of the DNA Unit of the scientific police in Rome, has provided independent confirmation that this forensic finding is accurate and reliable. It should be noted that the double DNA knife had been cleaned with bleach and DNA was still extracted from a microscopic groove near the tip of the blade, which means the knife must have been saturated with Meredith's DNA. The other forensic evidence is just as damning: There are at least three instances of Amanda Knox's blood mixed with Meredith's blood in the bathroom at the cottage. This will be very difficult for the defence lawyers to explain away. Perhaps, Knox had a bloody earring and maybe a drop landed on a drop of Meredith's blood, but in three different places? An abundant amount of Raffaele Sollecito's DNA was found on Meredith's bra clasp. Patrizia Stefanoni and Dr. Renato Biondo have categorically excluded the possibility of contamination. This key piece of forensic evidence won't be considered in a vacuum, but will be placed into context. Meredith's bra was removed quite some time after she had been killed. It makes no sense for Rudy Guede to have gone go back to the cottage to alter the crime scene in order to mislead investigators. Judge Paolo Micheli rightly concluded that the only person who had an interest in tampering with the crime scene, including staging the break in, was Amanda Knox. Incidentally, Raffaele Sollecito's forensic expert, Professor Francesco Vinci, claimed that he had found Knox's DNA on Meredith's bra. The bloody footprints at the crime scene also implicate Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. Knox's footprint was set in Meredith's blood in the hallway outside Meredith's room. Another bloody footprint in the hallway and the one on the blue bathmat in the bathroom have been attributed to Sollecito. It's blatantly obvious that the two bloody footprints, which match Sollecito's foot size, are not Rudy Guede's. MOREOVER there are Amanda's lies to involve her boss Patrick Lamumba there are the contradictions - huge - I was at the murder scene.."no, i was not at the scene!" There is also her defence council attacking Raffaele Let's stick to reality: She posted on her MySpace page a story about rape, which she signed FoxyKnoxy... Her not so much smarter former lover - of a few weeks - who did NOT live with Meredith and Amanda - had a picture of himself with a meatcleave The two were together for only a few weeks before the tragedy happened His father admitted that he had a "thing" for knives and that he always went around with one in his pocket Enough about he inept italian judicial system... How about OJ?? Amanda had great lawyers.. they could not convince two judges and 4 jurors CNN please stop disseminating inaccurate, biased information;; if you think a certain pressure and animosity against the judges and the trial might have swayed things negatively for Amanda...than I believe you are partially to blame...

• OMG, I can't believe how ignorance people in US are. Even though you speak English you only read and belieave your own local medias. Come on. World is not that simple. US media has been very biased about this case. They have been more concentrade on her looks and a girl-next-door image than actual facts. All rumours have been set up to make Italian justice system look bad, and no one here tries even question if they were real or not. Also, DNA evidence was found. It was small ammount, but italian DNA expert insisted that it is enough to prove that it was hers. Only an idiot, who wants to believe false feel of security tries to pass this with only saying that is not enough to prove anything . She did lie, She did frame an innocent man and she tried to wash off evidences. She lied she didn't know Guede, man first convicted, even phone records proved she knew him very well. Why do you want to be so blind. Yeah she might be nothwestern US girl, but she also is cold bloded murderer, who sadistically killed her English roommate. Just face it. Italy is actually very nice country, and if someone was in need of corrupted system, it was Amanda Knox herself.

• I hope that the US State Dept gets involved to free Amanda. She has been mercilessly misrepresented in the Italian media. The do not have ANY cocrete evidence against her. The knife that they tested was not the correct size to have inflicted those wounds on the victim. If the knife had been a murder weapon, don't you think that they would have destroyed the evidence rather than keeping it? Of course there is DNA of Meredith and Amanda on the knife--they lived together. It is amazing how Amanda is portrayed as some kind of over-sexed ego-maniac. She was an honor student who worked several jobs to save enough money to study abroad. She needed to get some undergarments the following day because her home was blocked from her due to the police investigation, but the media make that out like she was shopping for whorish lingerie? She is hugged and kissed by her boyfriend to comfort her and the Italian press takes that as representing an oversexed unrepentant murderer? Everything has been distorted and fabricated--where did they get the idea of a "sex game?" It is like taking stories from the National Enquirer and treating tabloid scuttlebutt as real evidence. The only thing that we know for certain is that Meredith has sex that night with the man from the Ivory Coast and was found murdered. Amanda Knox is seen (according to the police) doing cartwheels while her boyfriend is being interviewed, so therefore she is guilty? She was stressed out and probably regressing due to the horrendous situation that she was dealing with thousands of miles from home away from her parents. Justice has not been served in this case. Amanda Knox is innocent.

• I think it's sad that so many can come to concrete, unwaivering conclusions when they're mere bystanders ... with only snipets of information from 2nd & 3rd party sources. Were any of you actually present during the crime, or are you getting your information through blogs, newspaper accounts, and online sources? Are the people writing these things 100% correct? If so, do you have 100% of the facts in the case or are just the facts you have 100% correct? Think folks. Try not to allow your emotions prompt you to run to the handman's noose. One day, it might just be your innocent neck that the rope is around with a Salem-like crowd all chanting "Hang 'em, hang 'em, hang 'em."

• <span style="color:red; font-weight:bold>"Knoxy Foxy, Guilty, promiscuous and manipulative.</span><br><br> Not flushing the toilet is a sign she had abandonment issues, she couldn't bear to part with her refuse. Probably stemming from a harsh divorce or too much (or too little) attention from the males in her life during development (father, stepfather, uncles, etc...) In china they execute them right away. It's a shame she wasn't doing Asian studies.

• Found this interesting article. All of the "blood" that the media (daily news) screamed about in the bathroom wasn't blood at all. It apparently was something else. The Daily News apologied in a very quiet way: The website for the daily news, on the same day, explained that the pink-red substance wasn't blood but the ester cyanoacrylate sprayed after inspection and sample collection (just to remind one of the differences in the media).

• &#64;SLV 1. They bought the bleach in the morning. Do you have bleach in your house? I do. What else did they buy? I would like to know that. It sounds like they used bleach to wash the dishes at Amanda's bf's house in the morning. 2. Is it possible Meredith broke the window, trying to raise an alert or get away any way she could? A man raped her and hurt her. She probably was afraid he was going to kill her! Do you think he was there to rob her? No he wanted sex. Do you think the idiot would take anything from the house that would tie him to a woman he killed? NO. 3. When they've been questioned for days and threatened by authority figures. You've heard of the "camps" Bush set up? People were confessing there for everything an anything just to get the authorities to stop torturing them. Long hours of questioning... days of questioning can drive a person mad. 4. I wonder... Did they search Amanda's boyfriend's house for bleach? THE bleach that they bought? Or did the bleach come from Amanda's house (an older purchase). 5. If you've read the news, cleaning supplies (like bleach) cause the same luminol glow that blood does. I wonder if anyone checked Amanda's boyfriends house for signs of recent cleaning? I bet not. 6. God, this sounds like a bad soap opera. I bet the man who ran, a stranger killed Meredeth. This sort of crime happens all the time. I can't beleive people aren't seeing the obvious.

• Poor girl. They hate Americans over there. I know, I saw it when I was there a few years ago. She is a perfect sacrificial lamb for them. Poor, poor Amanda.

• Umm, I'm not 100% on Italian Law, but if guilty beyond a reasonable doubt is in fact solid with Italian Jurors, she will be aquitted. DNA on a knife (even microscopically) that belonged in the house of both Kercher and Knox does not proove she killed her with this knife. While motives the prosecution have put forth may show the situation 'could' have happened, it does not proove it. Nothing in the prosecutioon is concrete enough. Even DNA is not enough. Not in this perspective. Put the knife with Kerchers DNA in the house of another person and as a juror I might believe this as concrete. Unless I'm missing something? More evidence?

• Knox claims in one of her many varying statements to have noticed a couple of drops of blood in the bathroom when she showered, when in truth there was considerably and very noticeably more than this. She then goes on to explain that she saw nothing odd in this, and that she thought Meredith had her period and this could explain the blood. It is absolutely NOT normal to expect people to believe that Meredith was so appalling at keeping herself clean that she managed to smear menstrual blood all around the bathroom. This fact alone sums up how Knox felt about poor Meredith. Knox will go to prison for a very long time and deservedly so. Her lack of honesty will also ensure that her parents are bankrupted.

• S.L.V. (posted on 11/22/2009 at 11:21:53 PM) gave us a highly realistic version of the murder which includes all evidence and probabilities. In contrast, those who believe in AK`s innocence do not have evidences but simply state something like "she could never do something like that" or "deep in my heart I believe that...". Come back to real life. Amanda was the murder or one of them, and her behaviour is proof of that.

• Amanda's boyfriend bought bleach...that makes her guilty? Great evidence. If I ever commit a crime, I want you to be the prosecuting attorney.

• Oh please, Amanda is not "hot, beautiful, seductive" blah blah blah. Meredith, the girl who got killed, was the good looking one, not that dog Amanda. Amanda was jealous of Meredith who was prettier, had the boyfriend Amanda wanted, the job Amanda got laid off of, the good grades, good morals, popularity, refinement, etc. Amanda turned the cottage into a cat house, Meredith dared to complain, and Amanda decided to get a couple of guys and go have some "fun" with Meredith. Amanda Knox is as guilty as they come.

• OMG let her free she is hot as hell!!!

• it is amazing to me the ignorance of many here of the clear and present facts of this case; Knox is clearly guilty, and i come to that conclusion examining all aspects of this case that are in the public domain; but let us review. 1. i know i frequently get up in the middle of the night and go out and buy bleach all the time, dont you? we have a receipt for amandas bf exactly doing this. 2. obviously staged robbery, nothing was taken, window broken from the inside out, not trace of blood/dna on glass shards.. i guess the " robber was very smart not to cut themselves breaking in ay? 3. since when do innocent people change alibi stories several times? even if an innocent person's alibi cannot be confirmed, they rarely if ever change it.. here both amanda and her bf have changed several times.. 4. so we have what looks like a staged robbery/rape, but lets assume it was a real robbery.. did the robber decide to bring a krap load of bleach with them and intend to rape, murder, then wipe the crime scene down? those who beleive amanda is not guilty, can you explain how luminol reveals a crime scene wipe down with bleach, amandas dna mingled with mez's blood? another oj case. the cops planeted this stuff right?? if so i guess the cops planted all the changes in amandas albis as well? the cops also planeted the receipt for 3 jugs of bleach the boy friend bought too right? they also made the person who sold him the bleach lie as well, correct? according to my research, i see the likely events unfold as follows; amanda comes home with her bf rudy is already there downstairs on couch; Mez is pissed off about something and confronts amanda and her bf. amanda snaps or bf or both, the manage to subdue mez.. they then get rudy and offer mez for him to "rape" rudy first has to take a dump, but in haste does not flush to toilet to get to " his biz" he rapes mez, then amanda and bf inflict the deadly wounds.. i do not see this as some sex game gone wrong. i see it as amanda not liking mez being what she perceived as " a goody two shoes", under the influence of drugs, she decides she wants to teach mez a lesson and things go too far, rape and murder occur, rudy flees, amanda and bf attempt to cover up crime scene. the above was only my opinion, however; anyone who can possibly review the "known" evidence and conclude amanda is not guilty i can say this; "I WANT YOU ON A JURY IF IM DEFENDING A MURDER SUSPECT" open and shut easy case here,, not a question in my mind the accused are in fact guilty of this horrid crime.. ill bet again, NONE OF YOU who think they are innocent has reviewed the established facts of this case.

• I have always looked up to Amanda. I know in my heart that she is 100% innocent. Italy needs to realize they have made a huge mistake and have majorly impacted this poor girls life in a negative way.

• this murder is more bloody than any mafia homocide ever committed. I am surprised the guilty even left the body around to be found. It is simply horific.

• Innocent people don't lie about their whereabouts, change their alibi numerous times and behave so totally inapporpriately after the murder. Buying lingerie and talking about sex with Rafaelo, doing cartwheels and splits in the police station, claiming police brutality, accusing an innocent man- incidentally the only other African Italian man she knew, knowing details about the death of Ms. Kercher and the body positioning that only someone who had been there could have known. She is guilty and will go down as one of the mostlying damned accused for this horrific murder.

• "even if she is guilty, this evidence is pretty shaky. the only real evidence were her contradictory statement, in which case she really has dug her own grave. for a smart girl, that was dumb" People only see 2 choices here guilty or not guilty of murder. But it is very possible that she did not commit murder (therefore no DNA proof) yet she had some kind of involvement (hence the contradictory statements she had made). Maybe what she did would ruin her reputation so she decided to cover it up.

• ""OK, I'm having a vision..." then she describes this so called murder that her boss committed. That was what the Italian police were telling her that they already knew. She thought that was what they wanted to hear and that it would be over." This is really disturbing to me. Why on earth does someone who is innocent make up stories? Why? It doesnt matter what police wanted to hear. If she was simply telling the truth she would be fine. Making up stories, giving false testimony is a sign of guilt. When you do something wrong and you want to cover it up you start to make stories up and they often end up being inconsistent and illogical and then in order to reverse these inconsistencies you end up making another story. I believe she changed her story several times. To me she might not be a killer but it smells like she had some kind of involvment in it and wants to cover it up. Maybe it would ruin her reputation.

• Alec wrote "Shout out to all young people,no matter what the threats, do not admit guilt when you are not guilty !!! And that is easier said" Why is it easier said than done? I really don't understand this. If you are not guilty then just speak the truth. Its not hard to tell the damn truth. Its much harder to lie. Just say what you know, what you have been doing on that day ect. Why did she change her story many times, accused some people ect. Thats what guilty people do to cover the truth. I don't know if she is guilty or not but she sure sounds like she is guilty or at least has some sort of involvement in it.

• Amanda KNox and her Italina boyfriend are both obviously and totally guilty of the murder of poor young Merdith Kercher. All the Americans whining about the backward Italian judicial system are just plain ignorant. She is being treated better there than she would be in an American prison. Amanda is a manipulative and dangerous criminal; looks can be deceiving and hopefully she and her hapless boyfriend will serve their time.

• Pleeeze! That woman is guilty, if not of cold blooded murder then obviously of being one of the most self-involved, self-centered & stupid young women out there. IF there is another, then I hope poor little Amanda's story is something you will take in good consideration and remember that the world doesn't revolve around "you" and your "desires". Ms. Wilcox, I'm very sorry about your delimma, I've been there and I know how you suffer, no-one realizes how tragic your predicament can truly be, you are in a no win situation and I know you feel helpless because in all reality you ARE helpless. THIS is the real Hell, not some spoiled brat in jail, she'll do just fine as long as she continues to receive her fanmail about how beautiful & seductive she is as she lanquidly awaits her undue, inordinate fate. Who knows, there may be a book in the future, with pictures!!!

• Rather than "taking sides" (America vs. Italy), let's take a look at concrete and logical facts rather than vomiting emotional rantings. Everyone is of course entitled to their opinion, but I'm targeting this to those that want to fuel the media circus by injecting the quality, or lack of, there citizenry. Judicial systems are plainly different in each country and my suspicians fall on the people carrying out the law, whether it be in Italy or America. With a shoddy crimescene, mere speculations without proof, only selected avenues being investigated, and the integrity of the prosecutor, should not this trial be free of any biasness and moved to a court outside of Perugia but within the Italian jurisdiction. Maybe a fair trial will be the end result?

• Read "Monster of Florence". The Italian investigation system is convoluted and twisted, full of conspiracy theories and invented "evidence". Amanda Knox is innocent. They should be doing DNA on the drug dealer who was discovered washing the blood off in the town fountain on the morning of the murder yelling "I killed her." He's in a psychiatric hospital now, untouchable I guess. That part of the story was squashed by the investigators.

• I know what this poor girl is going through as the same thing is happening to me in the Spanish judicial system. Believe me the southern European judicial systems are still run like they were during the Inquisition. In my own case evidence has been supressed, documents falsified, everyone but me has committed perjury and broken so many laws I stopped counting long ago. And, everything has been tied up in a ridiculous "legal" package. My own case is as follows: In retaliation for having filed a complaint against my ex-husbands repeated threats to kill me if I ever left him the Spanish judicial system has: • illegally abducted my children • embezzled all of my assets ($1,000,000+ including my website (www.global-expats.com) and thrown me on the street destitute, forcing me to return to the USA to continue my custody battle •obliged ME to pay child support to my ex-husband with no funds with which to do so • and now are in the process of initiating criminal procedures for non-payment of said support so that if I ever return to Spain for my children I will be incarcerated. I have repeatedly asked for the American Consulate's assistance in protecting my and my children's constitutional and legal rights under the Convention of Consular Affairs, but have been denied each time, under the contention that it is not their job. Amnesty International reports that foreign women involved in domestic abuse cases in Spain have ¼ of 1% chance of survival and my case explains why. I refer you their report Mas Alla de Papel in English, http://www.amnesty.org/es/library/asset/ASA01/009/2007/es/6d8e6eec-d348-11dd-a329-2f46302a8cc6/asa010092007en.html, which further explains and corroborates that my situation is far from unique. If you would wish further information on my case you may google my name, Quenby Wilcox, or email me at quenbywilcox2@gmail.com. Sincerely, Quenby Wilcox P.S. Other links where you can find articles about my case and judicial proceeding in domestic abuse cases. http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15295.shtml http://stopthetortureandgenocide.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html

• If you want to know about the Amanda Knox case read Preston and Spezi's "The Monster of Florence." The head prosecutor in the Knox case is not in his right mind. In fact he is currently being prosecuted himself for manufacturing evidence and abuse of office, unfortuanetly for Knox the Italian legal system doesn't suspend their officers when they are facing criminal charges. As for the early Datelines covering the Knox case they, like many early reports in the U.S., took Italian reporting at face value. After reading the story of Mario Spezi, an Italian journalist who dared to pursue the truth and question the police, one comes to understand the Italian press - who do not have the freedom of press, U.S. reporters do - genrally just repeat what the police feed them out of fear. Do some serious research of your own!

• I totally agree with Alessandra's comments and amazement that readers call Italy a "backward country". Who can have the audacity to call Italy "a backward country"? I will tell you who - Americans. Americans believe that they and their country are the greatest and everyone else is inferior. In addition, I have seen the behaviour of most (fortunately not all) Americans who are living abroad - and for the most part it is disgusting. I live in China where there are many Americans who come here to "teach" English and end up making fools of themselves with their disgusting behaviour. Fortunately I know a few GOOD Americans - and these people are ashamed to say that they are American. That says something, doesn't it? To the majority of Americans I say this: stay in your own country, for we do not want you in ours!!

• I definitly think she did it, most probably to seem kewwl to her new boy, and fit in....she seems sooo EASY to influence anyway...have you seen her during her trial smiling and laughing? i have pity for her, as a disgusted feeling for her....she only give attention to the letter she receives in jail, telling her how beautiful she is....what kind of people who are in jail for something they did not commit would give some importance to this kind of comments?who cares?I really hope, she enjoyed sleeping with every one, because with a bite of luck, she ll live with violent women for the rest of her life....behind big bars...she is such an evil monster and murderer....

• Please visit this site if you would like to find out more about this case http://truejustice.org/ee/index.php

• good god this sux. i hate crime.

• For all the post i have read here, it seems very few people have actualy researched the case. Proably read one or two articles, made up their mind, then posted. I at least wish people would have the decency to get their information correct. 1) her footprints were not at the scene 2) her dna was not on the bra clasp 3) the knife that had meridths dna did not fit the imprint of the knife in the blood. even if she is guilty, this evidence is pretty shaky. the only real evidence were her contradictory statement, in which case she really has dug her own grave. for a smart girl, that was dumb

• As so many others have said he before. Those of you who are speculating on either innocence or guilt were not there to witness the event and are therefore unqualified to provide anything other than a personal opinion; which should all be recognised as nothing more. The only people who knew what actually happened were those who were present at the time. For anyone who has watched those countless TV shows which demonstrate how cases are rebuilt to provide a picture based on evidence which can prove to be either accurate or in-accurate understands that these are based around forensic evidence and psychological profiling. Myself, I'm keeping an open mind, I'm not in a position to pass a guilty or innocent verdict. However I will say this. If she and her ex were part of this then isn't it time that they faced up to the consequences and put Meredith Kercher's parents out of their pain? If they are truly innocent then at least show some real empathy for what Meredith's family is going through. Whether justice will be served either way remains to be seen. But I've learned this during my time, we put our faith in the judicial system because at present we have no other real choice. If the innocent are convicted, they can appeal, if the guilty are convicted then they need to pay for their actions. Don't forget, the only real victims here are Meredith and her family. In respect to Amanda, her ex and their families, this is a difficult time for them, but at least they still have their children - whether those children are convicted or not.

• "no wall of silence ever lasts this long" "and guilty folks never testify at their own trial" This is completly ignorant and downright stupid. I think you watch too much tv, and following news doesn't make you any more of an expert than joe schmuck down the road who drinks beer and watches tv all day. Do you believe everything you hear or read? People who commit these kinds of crimes are usually egotistical, smug, pompous ***holes, and love appearing in court. I think knox and bundy would have made a great couple! There is a lot of evidence against knox, the defense are fighting back by trying to cause complete confusion, she has been constantly lieing since the start, why should she be believed now? Truth is a friend of the honest. Her only argument is "i'm just a sweet little innocent girl, who got caught up with a lunatic murderer and the big bad italians made me lie repeatedly" One piece of evidence stands out to me, why was it made to look like a break in? The windows were broken out. Only knox and her ex stood to gain from this.

• I guess Italian judge Micheli must have been smokin some cannabis too when he wrote his report about the sentencing of Guede. I do not know why as a Judge he would implicate anyone else if there were not empirical evidence substantiating it. He would really be on thin ice.

• I' can't believe this....how can people who lives in a country where still people get killed if found guilty....and many many innocent has been killed and afterwords found innocent....talk about Italy to be backword....amazing! There is a trial going on and so far there many evidences of Amanda and Raffaele to be guilty but...is only the trial, the court to decide...and not our "impressions" our...""I know she's not guilty..."....If she only wouldn't say so many lies about the circumstances and the people involved....but you don't ever consider this. You better watch the trial on TV to listen to everything and not only Amanda's parents....but...ooops....none of you can speack italian...only we poor backward italian people can speack 2 or 3 languages....you'll never learn!!!

• Helmut, this is from the judges report after sentencing of Guede. How he arrived at this conclusion I do not know but maybe as you say the judge is totally wrong. The judge wrote in his 106 page report that Guede entered the home in Perugia, Italy, which Meredith shared with Knox "because someone let him in and that can be no-one else but Amanda Knox". Knox's trial for murder is due to resume next week along with her co-accused, former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 24. Judge Micheli also wrote that "others were involved in the crime" which he said was "planned to satisfy sexual instincts and which then turned to murder". He added: "Nobody tried to escape or tried to stop the others, no-one tried to get help and no-one expressed disagreement with that criminal progression. There was a criminal accord for sexual violence

• Knox didn't do it. I follow a lot of crime news and no wall of silence has ever lasted this long, let alone one between a xgf/bf. It usually takes about 2-weeks before each implicates the other. And guilty folks never testify at their own trial. Plus Guede would have testified against them for a reduced sentence if there was anything to testify about. That said, there's nothing more annoying than a college co-ed who's pretty hot and thinks she's super-hot. And thinks smoking weed makes her sexier. And it's a little disturbing that she enjoys being on trial for murder. And thinks she's a movie star because she's an accused murderer. (And has a huge herpes soar on her lip.) But there's about a 99% chance that she's innocent. The prosecution can't find any conclusive evidence, because there isn't any, because she didn't do it. She did cartwheels at the police station b/c she's a self- absorbed, cocky, cavaliaric bitch, not a murder.

• Gosh some of you people can't see past "because we're Americans" and calling Italy backwards. I don't believe it's because Amanda is American, her bf is Italian remember and he is also getting the same treatment so how can you blame it on that. It's ridiculous! All you talk about is Amanda, it's not about her, it's about getting justice for an innocent girl who lost her life in a horrific way called Meridith. Meridith is the victim here not Amanda. If Amanda could get her stories straight she wouldn't be in this mess. Also you can't argue with evidence so this girl needs to think good and hard about what she's doing here. RIP Meredith

• If it quacks like a duck? OJ Simpson trial in the US is similar. He acted so irrational at the start with conflicting stories and odd behavior. There was a ton of incriminating forensic evidence against him. However, in his case he had the brothers on the jury watching his back. We all know he did it. My point, that it is really really hard to be that unlucky and have so many conflicting stiuations and evidence that question your innocence. I realize innocent people get convicted but when you have to explain away more incriminating points than presenting innocent ones you gotta ask are they really that unfortunate or is it a duck. Defense motto, It is always best to baffle them with bull so people lose sight of the truth.

• How come they dont offer the convicted black dude a sentence reduction to testify and implicate the couple? I would knock 10 years off for it. He already has been tried and I realize wants to appeal but his case is mighty weak. Finding her dying and running RIGHT. Prosecution must think they have enough evidence or maybe they were not there.

• Don't listen to "K" there is nothing wrong with having sex, whether it be with 1 or 5, it is healthy and natural, there is absolutely nothing "disgusting" about it. There are always people who don't understand, and would rather you don't understand either. There are some people who will try to tell you that a lot of nice things are actually bad. That feeling good should be considered wrong. But thats not true, if only everybody found a way to be happy and content, the world would be a much better place. Don't let miserable people mess with your fun! :) :) :)

• Dude, people... common, it's not that complicated. Those of you who are out to defend her to the death, just answer the following series of very simple questions. And at the end your blinders should finally come off to let some light in: 1. Why were there footprints of both Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox set in the victim's blood imprinted in three separate places in the house? They claim that they found the entrance of the house broken in and the victim's door locked. Knox then allegedly called the police, who soon after arrived at the crime scene, before which Knox and Sollecito never attempted to unlock and enter the victim's room. This is according to Knox's own testimony. Then how did Knox's foot come in contact with the victim's blood, which resulted in the bloody footprint OUTSIDE the victim's room? When did those get there, and how? 2. To respond to #1, some of you may want to say that Sollecito may have committed the crime while Knox was present but she only participated in the cover-up attempt to save her boyfriend, and not the actual killing. You should consider this question then: At this point, even after Sollecito has all but turned his back on her and accusing her of being the "only reason why [they] are here [in this mess]", why would Knox still not come out and say what she knows. Why would she go on protecting him by lying about not being at the crime scene and failing to explain the bloody footprints? If you can't answer the above questions, they you should at least reconsider the level of confidence you have in her innocense. You guys talk like you were there to witness it when it happened that you're willing to come out and categorically declare that she was absolutely not involved. Notice how I have not taken an extreme position or even a belief in either her guilt or innocense. I'm merely stating the fact that there are hard pieces of evidence and questions that just cannot and should not be ignored. Do not blindly defend her innocense just because she's American in a foreign land. Many Americans have committed crime in other countries just as much as many foreigners can and have committed crime in the U.S. Everyone deserves justice, whether they be American or not, including the victim in this case. It's fine to want a fair trial for Amanda, but let's not forget there's another person here who deserves justice just as much, her name is Meredith Kercher. God bless humanity.

• Its clear that this is just a conspiracy against knox because she is american. Everyone is out to get her, the police, the prosecution and the judge. All the evidence against her and the fact that she confessed are irrevelant. Knox is a pretty, white, american, middle-class girl so its hardly possible that she done it.

• I don't believe that she is guilty. Her so called confession was her grabbing her head and saying "OK, I'm having a vision..." then she describes this so called murder that her boss committed. That was what the Italian police were telling her that they already knew. She thought that was what they wanted to hear and that it would be over. They have already convicted the real killer, but in order for him to get a lighter sentence he had to finger somebody else so he chose the roommate. He had probably been watching them both for days, and knew who she was. This is a terrible situation, and I only pray that justice will be served.

• Amanda admitted guilt? C'mon....This is your life we are talking about, and one chooses to be confused and distraught at this time? Better have your wits together. Choose this type of reasoning gets one in a bind....really fast, regardless of lack of evidence. Yes, the Italians may be digging deep here, but that's out of your control. Amanda admitted guilt, now she must explain herself.

• If she is found guilty I am going over there and breaking her out of prison!!!

• at first i think the ex-couple were guilty, but after i watched their whole story at ci, ive realized, that they're not, and iv realized, that planting of evidences, making up stories by the police and poor justice system were not just happening to my country, but even in a successful, well-known country. poor girl&boy, the hell with their sexual lives, even if she's having sex with someone he just knew in a train doesn't mean she's capable of killing someone.unless she's on drugs, they should have put them on drug testing (did they do that?coz i ddnt know.) im just wishing for the truth to come out. coz if they're really innocent, they're wasting the poor innocents lives.

• Whether she was promiscuous or not really has nothing to do with her innocence or guilt. I am sure if you had sex with 5 women no one would call you promiscuous, right? Even though it is still equally disgusting, despite what everyone thinks. Can't be good for your well-being.

• I know her personally and I believe she did this, most likely as a result of influence from her boyfriend or something. She is very impressionable and doesn't think well for herself. She is also very very very promiscuous. I have at least five friends she has hooked up with.

• Good gawd both Amanda and her ex-boyfriend of one week have lied from the start. Both of their bloody footprints have been found at the cottage, their DNA was found on Meredith's bra clasp, and Amanda's DNA found on the knife handle with Meredith's blood on the tip of the knife. What do "Friend's of Amanda" want anyway? A video recording of the murder? Of course they're guilty. Everyone in prison claims they're "innocent"; Foxy and her ex-boyfriend are no different and want to get away with murder. Meredith meant nothing to them, which is why they chose her to abuse and subsequently kill. "Poor Amanda" indeed! What about Meredith?!?

• poor chick, oh please!! have you read her statement made, the girl is claiming she cant remember things and is confused...personally I belive she is enjoying all this attention. I hope she gets life in jail.

• It seems as though Amanda Knox has been tried and convicted in the minds of so many people. We have heard quite a bit of contradictory information, from both the Italian police and the defendants in this case. The Italian police made a snap judgment based on the fact that Amanda Knox is a young, pretty American with a racy nickname who sometimes smoked pot. They decided that Meredith Kercher was murdered by Amanda Knox during some weird sex game (of which they have very little real proof). The only hard evidence they have is against Rudy Guede, but it seems likely that the Italian police are going to push this as far as they can in order to save face. If you live with someone for several months, your DNA and theirs will be mingled everywhere, and smoking pot doesn't make you a murderer/rapist. I believe that Amanda Knox is a very young and immature person who was dropped into the middle of a nightmare. When she made those confessions, she was terrified, confused and most likely more than a bit inebriated. Her behavior afterwords makes me believe that she was in shock and was unable to deal with the situation. I don't think that the statement "Of course she was in pain" proves that Amanda is guilty. I think that it proves that she's upset and not dealing with this well. I truly don't believe that Amanda Knox is guilty of this crime, at least, not in the way that it was presented. I doubt highly that there was any sex game, and that Knox and her ex-boyfriend had much to do with it. The truth is, that we may never know. I hope that justice is served here, and that Meredith's family finds peace and closure because of the veridict, but I don't believe that it's possible due to the ineptitude of the Italian judicial system. I wonder what would have happened if Amanda Knox was the one murdered, and Meredith Kercher stood accused. Would Amanda have been shown in the media as an innocent victim of a sex game gone awry? Would Meredith have been vilified? Or would the media and the police have painted a picture of a naughty little American girl paying the price for her promiscuity and getting her innocent roommate involved?

• After initially reading about the homeless man's testimony solidified by his answer on cross that he was positive of the time, I thought Amanda's goose had been cooked. Then I discovered Meredith had used her cell at 10:13 in an aborted call. That was when the accused pair were on the plaza. He placed them there from about 9:30 until well after 11. He saw them again about midnight before he went off to bed. The convicted killer's DNA and bloody fingerprints were found at the scene and in her body. The prosecution produced a witness whom they hoped would place him leaving the area about 10:30. Her testimony didn't hold up too well, but Guede's friends placed him at the party. Other than very shakey testimony of a convicted Albanian who claimed to have seen them in the street on a day before the murder, no prior connection of the trio has been established. Guede didn't have a cell phone because the police had confiscated it in October. He didn't come close to describing them in his first statement. I don't know what went on that evening, but from what's been produced to date, I couldn't vote to convict, especially on the scenario of sex games.

• Limone wrote: "They litterally do not have one SINGLE piece of evidence against her" There are 13 pieces of forensic evidence that link Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito to the crime scene. Patrizia Stefanoni is quite unequivocal about the double DNA knife. She states it is Meredith's DNA on the blade. Dr. Renato Biondo, the head of the DNA Unit of the scientific police in Rome, has provided independent confirmation that this forensic finding is accurate and reliable. It should be noted that the double DNA knife had been cleaned with bleach and DNA was still extracted from a microscopic groove near the tip of the blade, which means the knife must have been saturated with Meredith's DNA. The other forensic evidence is just as damning: There are at least three instances of Amanda Knox's blood mixed with Meredith's blood in the bathroom at the cottage. This will be very difficult for the defence lawyers to explain away. Perhaps, Knox had a bloody earring and maybe a drop landed on a drop of Meredith's blood, but in three different places? An abundant amount of Raffaele Sollecito's DNA was found on Meredith's bra clasp. Patrizia Stefanoni and Dr. Renato Biondo have categorically excluded the possibility of contamination. This key piece of forensic evidence won't be considered in a vacuum, but will be placed into context. Meredith's bra was removed quite some time after she had been killed. It makes no sense for Rudy Guede to have gone go back to the cottage to alter the crime scene in order to mislead investigators. Judge Paolo Micheli rightly concluded that the only person who had an interest in tampering with the crime scene, including staging the break in, was Amanda Knox. Incidentally, Raffaele Sollecito's forensic expert, Professor Francesco Vinci, claimed that he had found Knox's DNA on Meredith's bra. The bloody footprints at the crime scene also implicate Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. Knox's footprint was set in Meredith's blood in the hallway outside Meredith's room. Another bloody footprint in the hallway and the one on the blue bathmat in the bathroom have been attributed to Sollecito. It's blatantly obvious that the two bloody footprints, which match Sollecito's foot size, are not Rudy Guede's.

• I think everyone should watch the 48 hours special before they comment. They litterally do not have one SINGLE piece of evidence against her. ALL evidence found is associated with the guy they convicted. there is also no evidence that Amanda knew this guy who was convicted. She was the first one to show up at the crime scene, to check up on her friend, which landed her as a suspect somehow. Also, the prosecutor is a freak obsessed with cults and witchcraft and is being charged for corruption himself! After 48hrs, I am convinced she is completely innocent and feel terrible for her.

• The 48 hours documentary was totally biased and one-sided. If you want to see a true representation of the evidence--watch the previous Datelines that have aired. They are looking for the truth, not out to write a book and make millions as the "private investigator" hired by the Knox family plans to do.

• I've been reading everything on this case I can. I want to beleive someone like Amanda couldn't do this but how do you explain the massive cleanup, the footprints, the constant changing of her alibi, the location the knife was found, the numerous liesetc, etc. This doesn't indicate an innocent person. It's the intense cleanup at both Amanda's house and Sollecito's apartment that does it for me, a random killer or even Rudy acting alone would not have the time or inclination to do this.

• She did kill her and she is a cold-blooded murderer, that explains why she was doing cartwheels at the police station just HOURS after meredith had been found

• This is a perfect example to what degree a backwards religion and unfounded beliefs can damage people, this prosecutor is a modern version of the Salem witch trials where the town's preacher called for condemnation of the so called witches and began a hysteria that condemned to death hundreds of innocent people. I am appalled to not have heard the state department voice in this case. We as American citizens should call on our congress leaders and demand that some action be taken to bring back a hostage of a lawless government.

• This is a perfect example to what degree a backwards religion and unfounded beliefs can damage people, this prosecutor is a modern version of the Salem witch trials where the town's preacher called for condemnation of the so called witches and began a hysteria that condemned to death hundreds of innocent people. I am appalled to not have heard the state department voice in this case. We as American citizens should call on our congress leaders and demand that some action be taken to bring back a hostage of a lawless government.

• I too just watched the program on 48 hours and must say that I can't imagin any of our children and family's having to be put through anything like this. The prosecutor if under suspect for criminal activity in any way shold not be allowed to be in his position at this time and should be forced to take a leave until he has been cleared of any charges. How is it that he can be considered as credible in any way. I feel that this is just bullish and I think that she is innocent. My heart goes out to Amanda and her family.

• This "prosecutor" makes the Spanish Inquisition look like a kids play date. He's absolutely twisted by his fictitious religion, following the commands of a woman who speaks to a dead priest. How stupid are Italians? No wonder Mussolini was their leader, yeah, "El Duche Bag". JP

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