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Retrial of Amanda Knox ordered

  • 26-03-2013 09:13AM
    #1
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Rather than drag up the original thread...

    The Italian courts have overturned Amanda Knox's acquittal and ordered a retrial. Dragging this into a whole new level of farce that the Italian court system has become famous for.

    https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/316475869923258368

    Best of luck getting her to leave the US. If I was her I'd make sure I can't be extradited and stay put.


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  • #2
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    But she's pretty?


  • #3
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    While I certainly had major doubts about her evidence and innocence, the Italian courts proved to be beyond daft in their handling of the whole thing.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #4
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    But she's pretty?

    No, she's foxy - apparently.


  • #5
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Good luck to them getting her extradited from the USA. Not gonna happen.

    I'm not convinced she did it btw, but there's so many unanswered questions about the case. The Italian police really bolloxed it up royally.


  • #6
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    That was my favourite murder trial ever.


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  • #7
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    They haven't a hope in hell of getting her back.


  • #8
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Sergeant wrote: »
    That was my favourite murder trial ever.

    It's gotta be OJ for me.


  • #9
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    She's about as guilty as me. The investigation was a farce.


  • #10
    flanna01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 976 ✭✭✭flanna01


    The original trial was dodgy to say the least... without a doubt, she lied from the beginning, and acted 'weird' throughout the investigation.

    Her hands have blood on them - I don't care what anybody thinks. she wasn't as innocent as she portrayed herself to be.

    Realistically speaking - There isn't a snow ball in Hell's chance of her leaving the USA to accommodate another Italian trial.


  • #11
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Excellent.

    Months of more danger **** pictorial material.


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  • #12
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    There is no evidence against Knox except "acting weird", the insane fantasies of the prosecutor, and planted evidence.


  • #13
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭tigger123


    The Italian Justice system is embarrassing itself at this stage. She'll never be extradited, even if the courts want it it would take a whole other level of political and diplomatic effort in order for it to happen.


  • #14
    delthedriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭delthedriver


    Are the Italians for real?
    Another retrial? How many more?
    Berlusconi?
    The leaning tower of Pisa?
    Fiat( fix it again tomorrow)
    What a bunch of jokers!
    Amanda Knox was acquitted, end of .:D


  • #15
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,865 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Eh...do people really believe the US will refuse to facilitate an extradition request? I'm not sure - but why are people so sure they won't?


  • #16
    lintdrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,875 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/breaking-amanda-knox-and-raffaele-sollecito-will-face-retrial-over-death-of-meredith-kercher-8549373.html

    According to this, she doesn't need to be extradited, they can go ahead without her. However that works!

    Edit: the relevant text from link.
    Following today's decision Knox does not have to return to Italy as there is no requirement for defendants to be in court.


  • #17
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,148 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    her ugly cousin's trial got no media attention whatsover. Life just isnt fair sometimes.


  • #18
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    they're like FF with the referendums, keep trying til you get the result you want.


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    delthedriver wrote: »
    Are the Italians for real?
    Another retrial? How many more?
    Berlusconi?
    The leaning tower of Pisa?
    Fiat( fix it again tomorrow)
    What a bunch of jokers!
    Amanda Knox was acquitted, end of .:D
    So despite all the other things you mentioned you for some reason think he acquittal was correct? Odd way of looking at things.


  • #20
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    The prosecutions case was complete fantasy from beginning to end. I'd like to know what has changed that they now feel they can retry the case.


  • #21
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Ah good old foxy knoxy - damn she's hot!
    I also think she's most likely innocent, the investigation was beyond a disgrace.


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  • #22
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I also think she's most likely innocent, the investigation was beyond a disgrace.

    At the start of the last trial I was convinced she was guilty, but when I did a bit of reading that started to fall away.
    Honestly, I think she lacks a lot of social awareness etc and hence acted very oddly in the days after the murder. But a lot of people have that problem and shock/grief/exhaustion can affect folk very differently.


  • #23
    Tazium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Tazium


    Yeah, I still would though ;)


  • #24
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    At the start of the last trial I was convinced she was guilty, but when I did a bit of reading that started to fall away.
    Honestly, I think she lacks a lot of social awareness etc and hence acted very oddly in the days after the murder. But a lot of people have that problem and shock/grief/exhaustion can affect folk very differently.

    People forget that she was a young girl in a foreign country and in an incredibly stressfull situation, of course she's going to act weird.
    I have a 17 year old daughter - she falls apart at the seams if there's a spider in the bath or the wifi stops working. There is no way she could cope with anything approaching a real problem!


  • #25
    Dtp79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭Dtp79


    sbsquarepants wrote: »

    People forget that she was a young girl in a foreign country and in an incredibly stressfull situation, of course she's going to act weird.
    I have a 17 year old daughter - she falls apart at the seams if there's a spider in the bath or the wifi stops working. There is no way she could cope with anything approaching a real problem!
    Taken 3


  • #26
    Caveman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Caveman1


    Does double jeopardy not apply anymore ? or am I watching too much Law & Order


  • #27
    Marsellus Wallace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭Marsellus Wallace


    She is guilty as hell but America will not send her back to Italy, they do not extradite there nationals for trial for crimes committed abroad, but they expect everyone else to send people to them to stand trial.


  • #28
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,557 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    But seriously, if this retrial finds her guilty , can the US refuse an extradition order ?


    I'm not a betting man , but if I had to put money on it , I think she's guilty...


    Why the hell did she accuse a barman ? - desperation ...


  • #29
    delthedriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭delthedriver


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So despite all the other things you mentioned you for some reason think he acquittal was correct? Odd way of looking at things.

    Sure the Italians are incapable of closing their own shoe laces, that is why they have a preference for slip on shoes.

    As regards conducting a murder trial, it was nothing short of a circus

    Odd?


  • #30
    Marsellus Wallace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭Marsellus Wallace


    the_monkey wrote: »


    Why the hell did she accuse a barman ? - desperation ...

    Dare I say it, he was a black man... Always blame the black man!


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  • #31
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,481 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Really cant see the Americans sending her back, maybe they would if it was for the first trial but no way after the garbage thats gone on with this


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