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    Amanda Knox

    Interesting article on why "she is completely innocent"...

    http://www.businessinsider.com/why-a...-insane-2013-3


    It's not just that Knox was falsely accused. It's that her entire life was ruined in the process, in the most vindictive and sexist way possible. At one point, Burleigh reveals, a police official posing as a doctor informed Knox she had HIV, and asked her to name all her previous sexual partners so they could be alerted to the risk. She did so, and only found out later that it was a trick — the Italian cops just wanted to know about her sex life.
    ^^ How f***ed up is that?
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    .....Is it wrong that I think she's cute and would hook up with her?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    .....Is it wrong that I think she's cute and would hook up with her?
    I wouldnt bass, i read somewhere she has hiv

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    Do you really think she did it? Part of me wants to think that perhaps, she is innocent... but I don't know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cykotic View Post
    Do you really think she did it? Part of me wants to think that perhaps, she is innocent... but I don't know.
    A shady situation, to be sure, and I certainly didn't pay close enough attention to the whole hulabaloo to say authoritatively, but it always seemed to me that she wasn't completely innocent.

    Either way, she was tried, it was overturned and she was let free. Were I in her shoes, I wouldn't go back to face repeated legal accusations till they manage to get something to stick and put her away for life and I certainly hope she doesn't. The case has taken on way too much international baggage to stake one's life and future on.

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    hang on though, didn't they jail someone in connection with the murder?

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    Yes, two men were convicted in addition to her. One had his conviction overturned on appeal and was released like her, and the other is still in prison. The prosecution theory is that they killed her together.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy View Post
    I wouldnt bass, i read somewhere she has hiv
    Read the quote in the OP!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cykotic View Post
    hang on though, didn't they jail someone in connection with the murder?
    Read the article...
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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    .....Is it wrong that I think she's cute and would hook up with her?
    She's pretty hot, I'd take my chances.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cykotic View Post
    Do you really think she did it? Part of me wants to think that perhaps, she is innocent... but I don't know.
    Honestly, the mediterranean police appear to be real shit kickers across the board...I don't have much trust in their "procedures" and methods at all, so I doubt we'll ever really know.
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    Bass has got his basic instinct kicking in!

    Quote Originally Posted by Legion2213 View Post
    She's pretty hot
    Yeah, she is.

    the mediterranean police appear to be real shit kickers across the board...I don't have much trust in their "procedures" and methods at all, so I doubt we'll ever really know.
    Not to mention the Italian court system is a joke with very little regard for due process.

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    Is guilty, isn't guilty, is guilty!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25969715

    An Italian court has reinstated the convictions against Amanda Knox and Rafaelle Sollecito for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007.
    I'm still confused as to what evidence actually links her to the murder?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Is guilty, isn't guilty, is guilty!
    I'm going to reiterate my stance that the Italian judicial system is a joke.

    I'm still confused as to what evidence actually links her to the murder?
    No conclusive physical evidence, that I've read about. No real motive.

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