Amanda Knox innocent or guilty?

No, marijuana doesn't make you kill, and Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito had nothing to do with the murder. They got caught up in a police rush to judgment that had police arresting them along with another man, Patrick Lumumba, for dubious reasons four days after the murder. Two weeks later the real killer, Rudy Guede, was caught. They should have let all three of them go, but they couldn't bring themselves to admit the bizarre theory that had gotten them headlines all over the world was in fact bunk. So they let Patrick go and tried to pretend Raffaele and Amanda helped Rudy, when there's no reason to think that, either.

Don't forget Italian adults see many American women come into their country and mess around with Italian men to fulfill sexual fantasies the very same way American men do with women in the Philippines. The foreign students in Perugia also have a reputation for hard partying with drink and marijuana, as both Amanda and Meredeth indulged in. (Had Amanda ended up dead would Meredeth be the one being dragged in front of the cameras, pictures of her dressed as a Vampire at Halloween and cavorting around with her Italian boyfriend in his marijuana garden as "proof" she was guilty?) This causes great resentment in Italian women who see the "floozies" stealing their men, and more conservative adults in Italy over the girls behavior. A college age female discovering her roommate murdered would be eyed with far more suspicion there than at a Big Ten school in America where police familiar with a pattern of local men preying on college students with property and sex crimes. This case was not patiently investigated the way the police stood back and built a case against Scott Peterson. Rather they rushed to judgment and psychologically terrorized the two kids whom they assumed guilty into making some conflicting remarks and then declared the case closed. (What nearly happened in the Richard Jewell case, only Jewell being older, familiar with law enforcement, and had a lawyer avoided making Rafaelle's and Amanda's mistakes. We now know Eric Rudolph did it, Jewell stayed out of jail, but did have his reputation ruined and went bankrupt from the false accusations.) Of course two weeks later the evidence came back indicating it was mundane burglary gone wrong by a know petty criminal. But in almost a mass insanity, both the prosecutor and public refused to believe it, preferring to be told "witch" tales about a girl next store gone wrong. Just read up about the burglaries Guede had been caught committing in the weeks before, all by himself, and there is very little reason to believe this was anything other than a simple break in that escalated to rape and murder. Guede had threatened a man who caught him breaking in his house with a knife, was caught inside a school also carrying a knife, and had stolen property from a Perugia break in where the burglar threw a rock through a second story window and climbed in. The exact same thing that happened at the cottage, no need for a "faked break in."

GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY!!

Amanda is innocent. It's impossible to place Amanda and her boyfriend at the scene. There is no evidence that suggests they were there. And if you think the bra clasp and knife are reliable pieces of evidence, you are doing the exact same thing as the corrupt prosecutors that tried to force evidence to make sense of their crazy sex theory. This girl has had a whole country slander her name and reputation so badly that it coerced a whole jury to become blind to the actual evidence and vote a guilty verdict, just like the interrogators coerced a false statement that Amanda was at the flat and the killer was Patrik. In my opinion this whole case is a joke and it steals the attention away from a more serious matter; the death of Meredith. She was a beautiful intelligent girl who had a life of opportunity ahead of her and all the sole murderer recieved as punishment was 16 years. Pathetic. The legal authorities should be ashamed of themselves.

Not Guilty. The whole story is conjecture on the prosecution's part, there is no actual evidence. I can't believe there are people out there who actually think she's guilty based on the sh*tty police investigation and lab work. Now the parents have been indicted for talking publicly about Amanda's treatment while being questioned? Damn.... I guess they don't believe in freedom of speech over there.

I wish Amanda and Raffaele all the best in their appeal.


One more thing.... I think people weighing in here should state what country they are from. I'm from the United States.

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If the case was in an American court, and I was a juror I'd have to rule not guilty. There is just too much subjective evidence and not enough objective evidence, a smoking gun if you will, to rule her guilty. Outside a courtroom, though I do have questions.

What about the store worker claiming to seen them buying cleaning chemicals that morning.

The mixing of blood is curious.

Why no DNA in the room, did they do a great job of cleaning or were they never actually there.

Again motive is fairly weak in this case.

There are other questions I have just can't think of them off the top of my head.

She was totally guilty, too bad she can't be executed.

I think there's a reasonable chance she was guilty. Lets get the facts straight she and her boyfriend both lied to investigators about the night of the murder and she even accused an innocent person. I dont buy the argument that she was pressured into lying.

If you are innocent then you would cooperate and not lie. They asked to be wrongfully convicted if in fact they were innocent.