Amanda’s boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was wrongfully jailed for four years and finally released this October.
Amanda’s mother, sister and father at the appeal.
confession, and seals her fate; all this done in Italian, a language she can barely read or understand, having then been in Italy for only a few months. Not surprising that she was eventually convicted of murder two years later and sentenced to 26 years in prison. Crime story of the decade? Cruel miscarriage of justice? Definitely, but in feng shui terms also a very major reversal of fortune, a descent into hell. Amanda Knox was portrayed as a promiscuous she-devil prone to indulging in ritualistic sex games. Twisted theories of demonic influence fueled the baroque drama of the killing. To the newspapers of the world, this was tabloid gold! British and Italian newspapers
described “Foxy Knoxy” (a nickname given to her when she was an eight- year-old playing in her soccer league) as a “crazed sex killer.” Headlines described her as a drug addict and a tart. It is every parent’s nightmare that one’s innocent daughter can be so heartlessly tainted and then thrown into a foreign jail this way.
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fateful night in November of 2007; death for one
transforms for them that
lyrical, romantic Italy… all this dramatically
innocents abroad, both beautiful, young ladies out to find love, soak in the magic of Europe, enjoy the adventure of
The drama of two
and a living nightmare for the other.
FIGHTING BACK But her parents, family, friends and University mates, almost all American, fought back. Slowly but surely Amanda Knox’s plight gained momentum. A member of the Senate put the weight of his influence behind them declaring, “the case raises serious questions about the Italian justice system” and asks if
“anti-Americanism” is to blame. Tis leads to eleven Italian lawmakers in Silvio Berlusconi’s coalition demanding a probe of the Prosecutor’s office. Te case comes close to evolving into an international crisis. Her case is brought back to Court!
Te Italian Justice system may be cumbersome but it is not unfair. The Appeal process is more lenient than in many other countries. In Italy, the Appeals Judge can retry the entire case and to the enormous relief of the Knox family, Judge Claudio Hellmann started the Appeal with an assertion of reasonable doubt. “Te only thing we know for certain in this complex case,” he declared, “is that Meredith was murdered.”
Te Judge ordered new analyses of the DNA tests by independent experts — a request that was refused, for no particular reason, during the original
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