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Amanda Knox, left, is comforted by her sister, Deanna Knox, during a news conference shortly after her arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Oct. 4, 2011.
Amanda Knox's Italian lawyer has filed an appeal of her slander conviction in Italy, a family spokesman said Monday.
In October, an Italian appeals court overturned the young Seattle woman's murder conviction in the 2007 death of her British roommate in Perugia. But the same court upheld Knox's conviction for slander — for falsely accusing bar owner Diya "Patrick" Lumumba of involvement in the slaying.
Lumumba was freed after two weeks in prison for lack of evidence.
Knox later said she was "manipulated" during her lengthy police interrogation.
Amanda Knox 'loves Italy' and might return
An appeal of the slander conviction was filed Monday, Knox family spokesman Dave Marriott confirmed. He doesn't know when the Italian court might consider it.
Knox returned to Seattle after her murder conviction was overturned. The former exchange student had been in custody since 2007.
In its ruling last fall, the Italian appeals court also acquitted Knox's then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in the murder of Meredith Kercher.
An Italian appeals court throws out Amanda Knox's murder conviction and orders her free after nearly four years in prison for the death of her British roommate. NBC's Lester Holt reports.
A third defendant, Ivory Coast-born drifter Rudy Guede, was convicted in a separate trial of sexually assaulting and stabbing Kercher. His 16-year prison sentence — reduced on appeal from an initial 30 years — was upheld by Italy's highest court in 2010.
In a lengthy court document explaining the ruling that cleared Knox and Sollecito, presiding appeals court Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann wrote that Knox implicated Lumumba after hours of intense police questioning because "she was convinced that was what the police wanted her to do; to name a guilty person."
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About time. This was the most ridiculous charge ive ever heard of.. Must be nice being able to bully people with threats of slander charges if they report police abuse. Did you Italians get that from Mussolini?
Tell the Italians to drop dead. They keep it up, and their tourist season will be a disaster. they can no longer be trusted.
Freedom You arrogance and ignorance in this case is over whelming. There was NO evidence of Police abuse as a matter of fact she was handled with kid gloves. It appears you know nothing about this case. This woman was guilty. She was and most likely still is a dope using tart that was guilty as the day is long. Now instead of counting her lucky blessing she is going to appeal. that is rich.
Mosin ....Now tell us who will win next years super bowl
Wow! what a genius you must be! Talking bad about a country (Italy) because they actually let a possible murder (or at least she was involved in this, they didn't just randomly picked her up while she was walking down the street...) walk free.
Mussolini? Nice stereotype, congrats, now go back to the pub, wear your baseball hat to cover up your bolding head, get drunk and start cheering "U-S-A, U-S-A", how about that for a stereotype?
The truth is the truth and short of severe physical torture an innocent person would not confess or lie simply to stop the interrogation. Only she and her boyfriend know what really happened however no matter what she says, we can consider it a lie, simply to clear her name. The facts are she DID implicate Lumumba and should be held liable.
I hope Lumumba sues and wins all royalties she will earn from capitalizing on this tragedy.
I wouldn't go to Italy for love or money ....... what a circus !!!! why don't they prosecute the cops for being inept . Just goes to show how really vulnerable you are once you leave the country . I hope it does hurt Italy's travel business , they have earned it . Amanda was lucky to ever get out.
The Italian Authrities had plenty of reason to suspect Amanda. This includes proximity, tampering with crime scene evidnece (i.e. the broken window), deceptive lies, changing stories, lack of collaboration between key witnesses, and false accusations against her former employer.
It was her drug dealer that is the primary suspect and most likely perpetrator, but it is also frustrating in that the truth of the incedent is likely known by Amanda and her beau. Perhaps the Italian police were a little rough in their attampt to extract information. As a matter of opinion, I think the perpetrator, Rudy Gede, is in prison, but the accessories are not.
Why did she implicate this innocent man?
The Italian police system is a joke by any standards; they make the Keystone cops , look like the FBI, they blew this case from the start, 7 hours of constant police interrogation, a young immature girl would confess to the killing of JFK, be very careful when traveling in certain country's, remember in the European , Middle-east and Asian systems, you are guilty until you prove yourself innocence!
Why do Americans go abroad, commit murder and think everyone is supposed to kiss their asses?
Poor girl has been through enough with the f'ing Italians railroading her ...
You must know what really happens before write your very unfair considerations against Italy. People think she is guilty and if she is now free that is just because is an American. Anyway if she is a killer, we are happy that she is gone in Usa where you clearly missed her. Next time when she will mix up with sex and drugs, her next crime will happen in your country where, thanks god, there is death penalty. About Mussolini, obviously this is your only knowledge of Italian history, it was indeed a tragical period and Italians paid hard for this, but your country (for the first time in the history) bombed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Europe and drops two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If you are proud of that, I understand your sympathy for a murder.
I don't know ShandiX, is that something you have done?
We are very proud of defending our country from the evils that exist. Don't mess with us and you won't have a problem.
David-717708 are you threatening me?
For all the miss steps and allegations about the Italian Police and the investigation/prosecution of the case, the same could be said about how we treat "Innocent until proved guilty" suspects here in the good old USA. We're no better at making stuff up to fit the crime or the suspect...let's be real.
There are always three sides to a story, Amanda's side, the Italian Police's side and then there's the truth!
That's a ridiculous question.
David, you are wasting your time on someone who cannot write a coherent sentence. Are you threatening me... grow up already. Angela your country is literally filled with garbage. Clean up your own mess and when your country turns around its almost 50% overturn on convictions rate, maybe someone will take you seriously. The judge was so embarrassed by the stupid mishandling of the police department and the investigators, he threw the case out and sent her home. Yes, someone was murdered and that's terrible, but maybe when you stop botching up the evidence, someone will rightly be held accountable. Until then, don't come in here and bash my country when your own leaves a LOT to be desired. Don't be surprised when you get some of your own mean-spiritedness right back. Oh, and you brought up Hiroshima, but I see you conveniently left out Pearl Harbor. How convenient.
@ Freedom4Everyone:
Uh...reading comprehension fail! The slander charge was filed by bar owner, and Knox's former boss, Patrick Lumumba, NOT the Italian police.
Oh is that so, then I stand corrected. I assumed this was regarding the slander charge they hit her with, over her accusations of police abuse. I admit, I didnt read the whole article. But thats only because they made such a huge deal out of the other charge. Yet we heard almost nothing about this case. It was an honest mistake. But, because I didnt read it, it was hardly a lack of reading comprehension involved..
That said, I think its still pathetic they charged her for speaking out about the Police abuse.
And this charge is pathetic too. Unless she gave false evidence, simply saying "maybe that guy did it" is not slander in my opinion. Now as I said, they have hardly mentioned anything about this case anywhere, so im not up on all the particulars on exactly what she said. But from here, It just sounds like more BS bullying, if you ask me.
"Simply saying" is the definition of slander. Where were you when "we heard almost nothing about this case"? An honest mistake? There was so much evidence pointing to her. As you said "they have hardly mentioned anything about this case anywhere", so you are not up on anything. This case has been all over the news all over the world. A very definite reading comprehension fail.
No its not, I can say I think you did it, and its not slander. Its only an opinion. People can have any opinion they want. Including believing the President is a Muslim. They can even say they think hes a Muslim.
Its only slander if she says "he did it".
Like I said, it depends on exactly what she said. Its the same with the President, if you claim that he is a Muslim, its slander.
I know everything about the rest of the case, just not this slander charge. Which has NOT been in the news hardly at all, especially any details. As I said, they also made a huge deal out of the slander charge over the Police abuse, thats why I though this was about that.
But hey, keep trying, I like it. :D
Freedom4Everyone.
Even psychopath roommate killers.
You don't read, and you don't pay attention.
Why the F do you comment?
You will have to explain yourself more, you make no sense..
If you cant form a full sentence, why the F do you comment?
Awwwww, too subtle for you, huh?
I'll just have to hope that the people who can read... will.
By the way, it's can't, not cant.
@ Hot in Pheonix and NoGods,
Don't let F4F get to you, he/she very frequently comments without reading the articles, in fact, from what I have seen he/she rarely actually reads any further than the headline before forming an, (usually incoherent and inaccurate) opinion.
If I was falsely accused I would file slander charges. The fact that she was a suspect being questioned by police did not give her the right to falsely accuse someone else. Those charges should stand it was a crime she clearly committed it and as a result an innocent person was harmed.
NoGods
Take some Prozac and chill!
Dear freedom4everyone:
The laws in the USA are not universal all around the world. Therefore, Knox could be found guilty of slander in the Italian courts despite it not being the same rules and laws here in the states.
BTW: I find it interesting you are raging about people slamming you when it was you who said:
Nice MAD speak there... Just because it didn't happen in the US that must mean everybody else in the world is a bully and wrong...
No wonder your opinion is getting slammed.
Who cares, they are still corrupt.
Freedom you are a typical liberal.....engaging your mouth before knowing your facts.
Black.Knight
Corruption? Can you say White Water?
This was railroading from day one. No evidence, plain and simple. Thankfully, the Italian appeals process stepped it up and exposed the con job perpetrated by the police, prosecutor and trial court.
For whatever reason, it is easy for many of you to hate a beautiful, sexually liberated, rich young woman. But I think it is mostly jealousy and....hate.
I wish Amanda all the best and hope the scumbags that falsely imprisoned her the past few years suffer ingrown toenails and mumps around their genitals for eternity.
You guys need to learn that Freedom makes up his/her own facts.........they have stated so on previous post and he/she will not provide any evidence supporting his/her claim.......as they cannot. As you have seen F4E is usually irrelevant as stated by Mr.Ed, No Gods, Ivan Renko, Rabid Cheese, Hot n Phoenix and others.
Freedom4everyone:
By your own admission, you did NOT read the entire article. To paraphrase a proverb, it is better to be thought a fool than to start typing BS and remove all doubt.
Mosin:
WTF is a "typical liberal"? Why don't you define that for us, or see the above paraphrased proverb.
Not being up on the case as to be able to speak of her innocence or guilt, But for all of you people blasting the italian justice system, If this was in America, If the appeals court in the US made the same ruling the one in italy did, she would still be in jail waiting for a retrial, if the DA chose to do so. And knowing the public here is not so different than that of Italy, public pressure would force him to do so. Unless a judge stopped him. She would not have been freed after an appeal on DNA evidence.
Oh ah this story isn't about the murder trial of Amanda herself it is about Amanda who falsely accused someone else (who was innocent) of the crime and she was subsequently convicted of slander (which it was).
Drewbuddee, She would be free if in the United States. Once you are found innocent of the charges you are set free. Double Jeopardy.
As far as slander is concerned, here in the States it is very hard to convict someone of. You have to prove all the statements are false and usually said out of malice. Made in an intorrogation, and under duress in the States the charge would likely of never been brought up.
I am getting so tired of all the, "liberal this and liberal that..." Very proud to be one - at least I can think for myself. And no I am not a socialist by the way, even though I don't see any harm with wanting to help those that are less fortunate. People spout "liberal" like it's a derogatory thing, when in fact; it's liberating to go against the grain of what society TELLS us how we should live. We think of society as a whole and want everyone to be taken care of. What is so bad about caring for your fellow man? Isn't that what the conservative Bible says to do? Hypocrites...
Opposite is true too. Many love and defend her for the same reasons. Just because she is cute and American she can do no wrong and everyone is out to get her in her defender's opinion.
I think you are all judging Amanda too harshly, she is my classmate and have grown a bit attached to her, she is a loyal person who expirienced a very harsh event in her life and she has suffered from the trauma. So please stop judging if you dont even know her!
NoGods, please mind rule # 1 of the Code of Honor.
Amanda Knox is no angel! everybody seems to forget the fact that she was invovled in a Bizarre group sex with these people including that young girl Meredith Kercher who was murdered, maybe she did'nt actually stab that young girl or maybe she did, of course amanda knox is not going to admit it, someday the truth will come out, Amanda Knox was somehow invovled and she got away with it, people are acting like she is some poor young girl that was railroaded in confessing to the murder, Now she wants to overturn her conviction for slander, she would be wise to let it go, forget about it and count her lucky stars she is not still in prison.
Danny where are you getting your facts from? The sex ritual theory was fabricated by the prosecutor via suggestion by the judge as a way to substantiate the murder charge. By no means ever proven.
Amen! She got away with murder.
atonyharding where are you getting your facts from? The sex ritual was confirmed by the man Ms. Knox is now suing. Fabricated? Substantiate this: All the evidence says she did it. Go ahead & fight science.
Review the cases that have occurred in the past 3 years. There has been a lot of females that have gotten away with murder when on trial. Plus there has been a couple of males as well that have pulled off some "disappearing acts" but has bobbed and weaved to stay out of the light. THis is awful. I cant watch the news when I see someone that obviously made a very poor judgement / decision and it cost someone their life but then they plead their innocence. That is bothersome because now we are surrounded by many whom have done something that they got away with .... and they are living next door to you.....
There was never any evidence that there was any "group sex". You are just repeating the wild theory of the prosecutor.
The only scientific evidence was that of Guede's, none of Amanda's.
Regretfully this appears to be be on the surface anyway yet another case of a "poor" little rich girl who uses her youthful appearance and gender to weasel her way out of a murder charge. She should be happy to plead guilty to slander. The real victim is the one dead girl we should not forget that.
Its about time the Italians leave this young lady alone, if anyone was slandered it was her. Go back to drinking your homemade wine and for the female guards how about trying to shave your armpits for a change. Your all too drunk to be holding anykind of court, so go back to creating your pasta and bending it into any shape you desire, but leave Amanda alone. If your not going to tell the truth about her then shut up. Now you have the boat captain to put through the wringer and make him smell the guards smelly armpits. Torture him and try to figure out how he justa falla outa of the boat. Its no wonder you people are broke, you can't run a country. Go see the pope and get some money from him and while your there see what kind of crimes you can strum up there, but you people are too scare to mess with the pope. He's set all of you straight and then take all of your wine and flush it down the toilet. What a bunch of imbolsols to hold this young lady in prison and even find her guilty of murder? Whatsa a matta you? You people crazy?
Danny, you haven't studied the case at all have you? The Italian legal system is a joke especially the prosecutor and original judge involved in this case. Read "The Moster of Venice" by Douglas Preston, a very prominent crime fiction author. He went through a horrendous ordeal when they tried to connect him to some murders that they said were part of a satanic ritual. He was only there to do research for a book he was writing about the murders and had an opposing view to the investigator. Anyone who ever disagreed with this investigator was automatically put on the suspect list. These people involved in both of these cases act like it's the McCarthy era.
Boy, talk about twisted bigotry and ignorance. Wine, armpits, pasta, captain, pope...What does all that have to do with with the complexity of the case? Please stick to the facts, if you know any. Luckyly Amanda Knox defense team didn't build their successful appeal on ignorant stereotypes. Obviuously the Italian Justice worked when Amanda Knox conviction was overturned on appeal. There are plenty of wrongly convicted individuals in the USA.
The "Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted" is an american non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, advocating for, and exonerating individuals convicted of a crime that they did not commit and to preventing such injustices in the future through education and reform.
Group sex is overrated! I don't buy the story the prosecutor obviously fabricated to make his case. why do they get to make up stories and everyone else has to tell the Truth, what is it with prosecutors.
looking at the pictures of some of the people it gets really hard to believe Amanda would get involved with a sex act with those individuals, ick! and for all you people that know so much you must have been their shame on you. there is one or two people that knows what happened and I believe he is in prison and will never confess, that will blow his chances for appeals, Amanda should do her best to distance herself from Italy. This whole case is a circus, the Italians must watch allot of Jerry Springer to model their court system after his show. but it does keep up their ratings, judging from some of these post!
Don't you people have a life to live! you have to spend your lives over analyzing this case and fantasizing about it, I wonder who the sick ones are here. Amanda may be a tramp, I don't know, maybesome day she will certify herself with a tattoo on her a$$. till then even after who cares. so here it is you were not there, you do not know, you will never know, and you do not have the right to speak! the old saying if you have nothing nice to say then don't say anything at all. and enough with the speculation's your case is as flawed as the Italians case because you are working on the same principlesand have the same bad evidence. and even less knowledge. know it alls are a disgusting bunch, that always do more damage then good.
@Joe; Wine, pasta, armpits, Pope, captain? somebodies been to Italy! The French Riviera isn't any different, you wan't to see some really hairy armpits go to Greece. and uni brows now that'ssexy. I like a natural woman, they are lower maintenance, saves allot of money on those expensive wax jobs, same standard equipment! so they have a harry chest! its no big deal, plus you don't have to wait 45 min for them to pluck their eye brow before you can go out for breakfast, they just don't have that vanity thing American women have. and they are healthier for it. and Joe they do bathe so they don't stink.
@Danny58
Wow, sounds like you've got it all figured out. Good thing you're not the judge, jury, and executioner... people would be sentenced to death left and right, without a shred of evidence if you were running the show. Sure, she allegedly participated in a "bizarre" orgy, that makes her a killer. Put your crystal ball away, nobody cares.
Exactly, and I'm not condoning anything here, but isn't college THE time to experiment sexually??? Isn't Italy really sexually liberated? Remember when we were all young?!? Give her a break in that department! Just because you are kinky doesn't blur the lines of sadism.
Why would she want to go back to italy? I guess she can do whatever she wants but,she better be carefull there are a lot of people over there who are still very upset she was set free.She could come up missing or even worse.I hope her family talks her out of wanting to return aleast any time soon.I think the best thing to do is just let it all go and find another country to visit.
I don't know the repercussions for a slander conviction from so far away - but I think she had better count her lucky stars, keep her butt stateside, and get on with her life. She needs to cherish every inch of dirt from 'sea to shining sea'.
Yesterday, a Mom in Ft Worth, Tx celebrated her win in our courts. After years of litigation, she was finally able to prove with DNA evidence (that wasn't available at the time) that her son was innocent of rape and murder. Unfortunately, he had already been executed by the state.
Justice is not always on time.
I agree with you Mark. Unless there are serious repercussions from the "slander" conviction over here, or if she can fight it without returning to Italy, I think she'd be better to put this behind her somehow and just get on with her life. I have to say, I don't blame her though... I wouldn't be surprised in the least if Italian police/investigators crossed a serious line while interrogating her. Look how much they botched the crime scene. It's not like in the OJ case where no one else has ever been found. They have that Guede in custody.
It is not about repercussions or a sense of Italian legal justice. It is about making people who persecuted her pay for what they did. If the cops did in fact push her to implicate someone else then that is no different than forcing her to sign a confessions. The police who questioned her are still out there investigating other cases. If you were a tourist in Italy and you found yourself caught up in a crime that you were not actually involved with would you want the police to have known habit of forcing confessions and altering evidence to make their jobs easier? And from a personal standpoint if I were her I would want to make sure that the legal system that initially persecuted me wrongfully was beaten into submission and those directly involved were punished severely. If the police did what she says then they should be given life prison sentences. Think that's tough then consider this? How many people have had their lives harmed by their actions? How many crimes have gone unsolved because of their methods? How deep does the subversion of justice for which they are responsible run? And that doesn't just go for Italy. It goes for America too. In fact here the stakes are even higher because we put people to death!
Have you thought she might be fighting the conviction because she is INNOCENT?
How innocent was the girl that was murdered?
WTF How about you find the real killer and bring to trial for the victim???? Or raise funds by starting a charity...or do something other than spew rhetoric...lmfao
Normal Texas justice. hang em and try em later
@Freedom4Everyone - you idiot hypocrite (including your ridiculous screen name), they learned it from the American justice system where they sentence innocent people to death for crimes in which they are later exonerated for via DNA evidence. The Americans evidently learned theirs from the Saudis and Iranians.
mtguide, you are suspended for a day for violating rule # 1 of the Code of Honor.
Amanda Knox has no idea how lucky she is. She should be thankful that she literally got away with murder. Maybe she won't get away with slander, but that would definitely be the lesser of two evils for a female who is rather evil herself.
She didn't "get away with murder" she was released from prison after two years because the police investigators didn't have actual evidence linking her to the crime. It was Guede's DNA all over the crime scene, her fingerprints were found because she was the victim's roommate. All the evidence against Amanda and Raffaele, her boyfriend, was hearsay and circumstantial.
Broad abroad? Do you even KNOW Amanda Knox? I mean, do you personally know her or did you base your opinion on what the media has told you? If it is the latter of the two, you're a puppet because the media spins what sells stories and you just took it all in. Yes, she should be thankful to be free because she was a victim of a corrupt system in Italy. Are you aware that the Italian court system hovers around 50% for overturns on convictions? How would YOU like to be on the receiving end of that? She made some mistakes yes, what 20 something kid hasn't? That in no way makes her a murderer. Her conviction was thrown out by the embarrassment of that judge at how badly it was all handled, let's not forget that.
This little Ho needs to stay in America and bang lonely dudes for free. Enough of her international whooring ways.
Hey, have any of you idiots who demonize Knox ever spent any time in Italy? The answer would be "no" because if you had you'd know that Italy is one of the most corrupt countries in the western world -- from the fruit seller on the corner -- all the way up to the Prime Minister. I wouldn't trust an Italian official to judge a cake walk let alone a persons' guild or innocence of the charge of murder.
I think the people who are most heated against Amanda Knox are basically morons who seem to have issue with any woman who might be attractive. I would wager if she were unattractive or not wealthy enough to study abroad then these same people would flock to her side as if she were an innocent dove tainted by the cruel world. Plus, I would wager than a lot of people who get their information from facebook and twitter posts probably have difficulty in separating Amanda Knox from Casey Anthony. After all both are moderately attractive and seem to enjoy life so if the level of scrutiny runs no deeper than what Kim Kardashian says in a three words on her Twitter then the mistake can be forgiven, if not the underlying stupidity behind it.
Italy being corrupt or not is irrelevant she should be happy that she got away with being involved in a murder and soon will be rich for her side of the story. One way or another who really cares? Us? who post our own narrow minded opinions.
Now that is one of the most truthful statements on this site. I would rank them up there with the Mexican government.
Black.Knight, your Wall Street stock market sold trash titles all around the world and your rating agencies made possible this stealing with their fake reports. This is big corruption indeed and it happened not in Italy but in your country. Now sniff less and perhaps you can save the four neurons still surviving in your brain
Bar owner Diya "Patrick" Lumumba is a murderous slime bastard who belongs in jail.
ms.knox should be very happy. she would have never gotten away with that crime here . she had too many things going against her. she was very lucky!
actually if anybody read up on the news of this case the reason she was able to appeal and win was that the supposed edvidence was proven false by an independant DNA analasys. It would seem that somehow the prosecution thought it was possible for knox and her boyfriend to get rid of all their DNA edvidence and not any of rudy quede's (the ivory coast guy who actually killed that girl), who by the way never testified against the other 2, and anybody knows a criminal will do anything to lesson his or her sentence.
I just hope that whoever has sway with her that they don't ever let her go back to Italy, I would hate to see some vindictive prosecutor refile the charges against her.
Frightening, the conclusory chasms that some seem willing to jump here, without a shred of experience to support their leap. Until you have been through "intense police interrogation" you have no idea how you are likely to react or what you might be coerced into saying. I've represented many who have been put through that wringer, done for the sake of a conviction, without regard for the truth. The investigation shows every indication of being horribly botched by inept investigators who violated just about every rule we know of. The Italian legal system, as applied here, was an embarrassment and she is damn lucky to have gotten out of there. Write a check to Lumumba and stay out of Italy. There are too many idiots there willing to emotionally embrace a belief in her guilt, despite a clear lack of proper evidence to support a conviction, sort of what I am seeing expressed here.
habeas17 Well I am inclined to take your side in all this hoopla.. The appeals court found the girl not guilty,, Iam not saying that she was innocent,. But you can bet your last dollar that if she was to ever make another appearance in Italy it will be a long time before she gets out of there.
Freedom isn't a 100% guarantee.
Calling someone a Muslim isn't slander unless it damages their reputation or costs them $$$. I think it says a lot about the person's bigotry if he thinks that is slander. Similar, saying someone is gay isn't slander but it could be if they're married to a woman and hurts the relationship.
for the first time, I am deeply shocked at the comments in this posting...Amanda was cleared of murder charges in an Italian court... and that's really quite amazing...
now she is being tried and convicted (in this posting) by fellow US citizens who have absolutely no direct knowledge of anything involving this trial...nor of how the judicial system works in Italy
seems to me that Amanda has more to fear from her own people than Italians who have most likely had a few bottles of wine & moved on to the next creative court challenge (using their wild imaginations) ...and yes, I am of Italian decent...plus I have no idea who is right or wrong in this instance...
Now I seriously wonder if some people posting here might pick up a gun and "do this girl in"...wouldn't be the first time vigilante, red-necked "justice" folks thought themselves above the law
jungle justice...born of ignorance and fear...this thinking threatens lawful civilizations more than anything else
you make the most sense to me.. couldn't agree more
I think Amanda should stay in the good old USA...do a spread in Penthouse or Playboy to help future book sales....
Not a bad idea. Maybe she could have her own "The Girls Next Door" show with Hef.
She likes to keep the devil dancing!!!
This gal better keep her cute ass in the USA-or she will end up like OJ Simpson-getting off on the charge and doing the equivelant of life for a nonsense issue.......and her parents will likely encourage her to go back to clear the family name!!!!!!!!!! I only hold out hope that the State Department invests nothing in extracting her from Italy or interceding in anyway if she chooses to go back to Italy for any reason ever..!!
She probably pooded her pants when she was accused of slander.
I am curious as to how many of the "American" jurors commenting on this thread were actually present to hear all the evidence presented at the trial? Have any of you actually lived in Italy and dealt with the "most corrupt" system in the Europe so you can present evidence to substantiate your accusation, or did you just slander the Prime Minister? Seriously, if you haven't read the transcripts of the trial then you're passing judgement on individuals, the judicial system, and the Italian government with no evidence other than what you heard on the news or read in the paper. I guess that is acceptable since the press isn't influenced by personal bias!
So you agree with my take on this-right??
I agree with the part about the State Department. I don't know her parents so it would be a guess as to whether or not they would want the family name cleared. O. J. Simpson...I vaguely remember him being convicted of armed robbery or something like that and I don't consider that a "nonsense issue".
I am fairly amazed at the nonsense concerning this alleged trial going back and forth. However, it did define one thing for me: A really hot, bad place will freeze over and thaw back out before I ever set foot in Italy! I don't know what is going on with their "justice system" (or whatever it is) there, but only an idiot would consider taking the risk to find out. Who needs it?
Wah wah. Isn't it about time this whiny little b*tch grows up and starts to accept some of the challenges that come along with so-called maturity? She seems to have a ton of money to pay attorneys to do her talking for her.