I'm with you on this one Anna, wish we could see the circus this one is going to create...

NO KIDDING!!!!!!!!

One of our readers was nice enough to forward me this link about the Amanda Knox case.

This week the victim's family spoke publicly a day before hearings begin to decide if charges will be indicted against Amanda,her Italian boyfriend,and a local man whose DNA was found at the crime scene.

I sure hope they do charge them so they can be tried.If they are innocent,I believe the lack of evidence will bear that out.Unfortunately,I believe they are NOT innocent and they have the forensics to prove that.

MSNBC Dateline did a great piece and that's where the link came from.Take a look at the story and decide for yourself.I feel quite sure you will feel the same.

Thanks to justice4all for the links!   

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26723703/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22332240/

Here's another great email from one of out readers about the Perugia,Italy murder concerning Amanda Knox:

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Hi annarocket,
Wow,and what do you think about Miss Amanda Knox? It seems like you think the same as I do.First she has sex with strangers on the train into Italy,then she starts up with that Sollecito guy,and it wouldn't suprise me if she tried something with poor Merideth,and when she got  turned down,she murdered the poor girl.It's awful,and I hope she gets what she has coming to her if she is  guilty.And I think she IS!
You have a great site,keep it up.
Janelle [last name protected]
Port St. Lucie,Florida
<End message>

Well thanks,Janelle! We love all of you too and that's an interesting theory on the Knox case. I never thought of it like that,but you never can tell!   

One down......looks like Rudy Guedo,the man who asked for a fast track trial in the death of Meridith K. has been found guilty and sentenced to 30 years.

You need to see the video of Raffale and Amanda going into court.I will say he looks mighty well cleaned up. [spoiler]


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/11/01/vinci.perugia.kercher.verdict.cnn

Hellooooooo Everybody!

CNN has a feature on our favorite student/roomate,Miss Amanda Knox.Her trial [and being tried along with her,her Italian ex-boyfriend,Raffaele Solecito].Man I wish I could watch this.Take a look at what CNN's got up.Very interesting stuff.From what I can see I suspect if this had taken place in the States,she'd be in even worse trouble that she is.

PS:Raffaele looks like a girl. 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/16/italy.student.kercher.trial/index.html

The front page section of CNN.com/Crime is saying,"Foxy Knoxy Murder Case Is The Talk Of Italy,"

The accompanying article goes on to report that Amanda has 11 Facebook pages dedicated to her and was voted the "Person Of The Year [female]" by an Italian television station.

Take a look at this article. If I may quote the great Oliver Stone in my very favorite movie,"...The media made them superstars..."  

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/27/amanda.knox.italy/index.html

Saw this video this morning on Nancy Grace [take at your own discretion]

It is a short clip of Amanda Knox's aunt saying Amanda called home the night of the murder and said she couldn't find Meridith. They also talk about the bloody footprints found at the crime scene.

Have a look.   

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/05/11/ng.aunt.speaks.cnn

U.S. student testifies Italian police pressured her

PERUGIA, Italy (CNN) -- American student Amanda Knox, accused of killing her housemate two years ago, testified in her murder trial Saturday that she was intimidated by Italian police during questioning.

Knox, 21, is charged in the death of British student Meredith Kercher, who was her housemate in Perugia, a university town north of Rome.

Kercher, 20, died in what prosecutors say was a "drug-fueled sex game" after suffering a sexual assault. She was found half-naked, with a stab wound to her neck, in her bed November 2, 2007.

Saturday was the second day of testimony for Knox, who is from Seattle, Washington.

The public prosecutor, her defense lawyer, the attorney for her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and the judge asked her about what happened the night of Kercher's death and the following day.

Both Knox and Sollecito, 25, are charged with murder and sexual assault.

Knox tried to explain Saturday why she gave conflicting answers to police when they interrogated her on November 6. She said it was a combination of police pressure, their suggestions, and her confused and frightened state of mind.
When I would say that I was with Raffaele, they would say, 'You are a liar,' and they repeated this," she said, testifying in fluent Italian.

"You will go to prison for 30 years. ... You must remember," Knox recalled the police as saying.

Knox said the police were standing behind her and officers were going in and out of the interrogation room. A policewoman next to her was constantly pressing her to give them a name, and an interpreter on her right said people under trauma tend to forget things, she said.

"I was confused. ... I had so much fear," Knox said. She testified that she thought, "Hell, perhaps they're right and I have forgotten."

Knox repeated Saturday that police slapped her on the back of her head while questioning her. As she spoke, she hit her head a few times with her right hand and gestured broadly.

Knox testified Friday that she was not at the women's villa the night Kercher died, which authorities believe was the evening of November 1. She said she was at Sollecito's house. Watch Knox take the stand »

Knox testified Friday that the couple had dinner, watched a movie, smoked marijuana, had sex and went to bed on the night of November 1. She said she returned to her and Kercher's villa the next morning to take a shower.

That's when she said she noticed "strange things" such as the front door being left open, dried blood in the bathroom sink and on a bath mat, feces in the toilet, and the door to Kercher's room locked. Watch Knox in court »

When Knox returned to Sollecito's house, she said, he suggested they call police in case the house had been burglarized. Police then found Kercher's body.

All cameras were barred from the courtroom Saturday because the public prosecutor said he wanted to avoid "sensationalism." Cameras were allowed at the beginning of the session Friday but then ordered out.

Knox's father, Curt, defended his daughter Saturday.

"What we've seen over the past five months is a character assassination, and now, hopefully .... a different point of view of who she is is coming out," he told reporters.

People are beginning to see that "she is not this dark angel she's been portrayed as," he added.

"Amanda did a great job" on the stand, Curt Knox said. "She was very articulate in her answers. She answered all of the questions truthfully. She was not quivering in her voice. She was looking the judge in the eyes."

Her attorney, Carlo della Vedova, described his client as "very confident."

"She has repeated exactly what happened that night, on the fifth and sixth, when she was arrested. She gave all the information that was requested" during her testimony, he said.

The trial is to resume next Friday, but Knox isn't expected to testify again.

A third person, Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede, was convicted of murder in a fast-track trial in October and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He is appealing the verdict.

 

Everytimes I write about Amanda,I think of that song by the Rolling Stones,"Down and down she goes,our Amanda Jones,I said down and down and down and down...."

CNN put this up,reported from a local station about the state of the case.You  just have to see the pictures of Amanda and the article left me shaking my head going,wow.Just wow.     

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/51025942.html

CNN has an interview with Amanda's parents. I think they want the public to see her in a favorable light now that this is almost over.

They did cop to her smoking the doobage,though!

Have a look. It has a timeline of the case and a gallery of pics from Amanda's childhood.            

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/24/seattle.amanda.knox.parents/index.html

I am not surprised at all.  It seems Italy's justice system sucks even more than ours does.   I heard very little if any actual evidence against her.  I even heard the lunatic prosecutor make statements like "She MIGHT have done this or that" or "She maybe did this."  Since when is that considered hard evidence??? He sounds like he's the one who should be locked up for 26 years.   I know one thing.  As much as I have always wanted to see Italy, I will never travel there.  I don't want to look at someone the wrong way and get locked up for life.

This was on the front of Msn today. I don't know ya'll. I think she did someting....but as to what....that party is really grinding my gears.


I'll let ya'll know If I figure it out!   


http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/34360473#34360473

Haven't thought about Miss Amanda in a while....have you?

But today while reading a piece on the death of Springsteen saxohphone player Clarence Clemons [RIP,blues man] I saw a tiny piece out of the corner of my eye by the AP:

A convicted child molester,Mario Alissi,testified Saturday at the appeal trial of Amanda Knox saying that a fellow inmate told him the American student had nothing to do with the killing of her roomate in Italy.

Knox was convicted of murdering Merideth Kercher a British student and sentenced to 26 years in prison while co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.Allessi was held in the same prison as a third man Rudy Guede who was also found guilty and supposedly told Alessi that Knox and Sollecito are innocent,which Guede denies.

Who knows? There's a song...."It's all about the he said/she said "