It is Contemptible for American Media people, especially those from Amanda Knox's State of Washington, to raise as "Foxy Knoxy"s PRIMARY and almost sole Defense, to Charge Italian Anti-Americanism in Amanda Knox's Conviction and Sentencing, (also Charging British Anti-Americanism, because the victim Meredith Karcher was British) , when Amanda's then boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, the son of a Prominent ITALIAN Family was given similar Sentence as "Foxy". It is Similarly Stupid !!! 

"Foxy" gave three different stories to Interrogators as to her whereabouts at the time of Karcher's murder, within hours of that time, one of which in attempting to shift the blame to another friend, claimed she had to stand in the Kitchen and cover her ears while Meredith was being killed in her Bedroom. !!!!!!!!!!  The DNA, the Weapon, the Co Conspirators Testimony, etc, etc, 

And if those same "Americans Can Do No Wrong" want to besmirch the Italian Justice System, I would be happy to debate them on the shortcomings of the American Justice System, and it's 2 MILLION Inmates.

And if they are willing to stray away from the evidence, I would be glad to discuss "Foxy Knoxy's Trashy  Reputation, while in Washington, and during the rather short time she was in Perugia, and her Dysfunctional and Divorced Family, and Strained Relations with her Mother, who often "competed" to bed the same men, etc, etc.... 

Candance Dempsy is just trying to sell her book, and will ignore or discount any evidence convicting "Foxy Knoxy". 

Knox's case is on Appeal, which is NOT a Retrial, but Only consideration if the Italian Law has been properly applied.
The Defense has only to prove ONE MISTAKE on the Prosecutors part, and the Prosecutor has to get EVERYTHING Right, so the Reversal on Appeal in Italy is High. 
 

 Amanda Knox's photo popped up in a rogue's gallery in Rome's police headquarters, amid snapshots of Mafiosi and serial killers (see embarrassing footage here and on second video embedded below) not long after her arrest. She's now appealing a 26-year conviction for her British roommate's murder. The question: Was Knox ever considered innocent until proven guilty? Well, that concept has only been on the books in Italy since 2006. As an Italian reporter told me after Knox's 2009 conviction in Perugia, Italy: 

"Presumption of innocence is a new thing for us. We don't really get it yet."

Enough, Roman lawmaker Rocco Girlanda said today. Since Knox is considered innocent until her final appeal, he called upon the Minister of the Interior to strip her photo from the SCO (Serious Crime Squad) hall of shame. He embarrassed Italian cops by pointing to a YouTube video (embedded below) of SCO head honcho Edgardo Giobbi boasting that Italian police arrested Knox sans forensics. No need to wait for lab results, Giobbi says, because his investigations run on pure "psychology" and he can quickly identify the guilty by facial expressions and other quirks during interrogations. 

Giobbi explains how he applied this technique in the Knox case on p. 136-137 of my book MURDER IN ITALY. Alas, his intuition failed him. Within days of the arrests of Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and Patrick Lumumba, forensics would show no sign of Knox in the murder room, dubious traces of Sollecito, and no proof that Patrick Lumumba (then considered a co-conspirator) had ever entered the "house of horrors." Nearly all evidence pointed to drifter Rudy Guede. Police had never investigated Guede, despite the fact that Knox and an Italian who lived in the flat below her had listed him as a visitor to that lower flat. Guede also had a record of burglarizing and breaking and entering through 2nd-story windows. He'd been booted from his adoptive family for lying and drug use. His landlord was looking for him, demanding that he provide a letter of employment for a job he didn't have. Two weeks after he met roommates Meredith Kercher and Amanda Knox, Meredith was brutally stabbed to death in her bedroom. The house had a broken window. Surely, Rudy deserved a chat. Instead, police spent days and days after the crime psychoanalyzing Knox and and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, while Rudy fled to Germany. He was extradited after police found his bloody handprint on a pillow under the victim. 

"Can a police mug shot undermine relations between Italy and the United States?" the Italian news service TG-Com asked today. "The answer seems to be yes." It notes that Girlanda, who raised the ruckus, is president of the Italy-USA Foundation (and author of a book about visiting Knox in prison). Girlanda says the video below (of Giobbi bragging about Amanda's arrest and posted by Injustice in Perugia on YouTube) has caused "irritation and embarrassment" and "fuels accusations against our country, not without reason." It gives the appearance, he says, that Knox was singled out as an American. Police posted her photo on the perp wall and that of Ivory Coast immigrant Rudy Guede, but spared her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, also convicted of the murder. 

"Knox is still awaiting a definitive sentence and yet she has been depicted alongside the worst Mafia bosses, criminals who have been sentenced to several life sentences," Girlanda said. See for yourself:

My Amanda Knox case book MURDER IN ITALY (Penguin/Berkley Books) has been nominated Best True Crime Book of 2010. You can vote for it here until Dec. 31. Called "as terrifying and compelling as any work of fiction," it unfolds like a movie, from Meredith Kercher's brutal stabbing to Amanda Knox's conviction, complete with diary excerpts, wiretaps, court scenes and interviews with key players for the defense and prosecution. 

Here's why I called the Amanda Knox case "a train wreck."

I'll be blogging about the Amanda Knox case until the final appeal. 

http://blog.seattlepi.com/dempsey/archives/233754.asp?from=blog_last3
 

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