I knew it! She was too cute to be guilty!!

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B!tch is guilty, she's a classic narcissist.

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Attractive white American girl dates Italian boy = Italian women may not be happy with American girl. In Italy, the Italian women are known to walk up to Americans and spit at their feet FOR NO REASON AT ALL. Amanda made the mistake of traveling to a country inhabited by Romans and Roman courts of law.

I recently spoke with a gentlemen who recently traveled to Italy. He told me the drivers will come up on your tail and honk and flash their headlights madly even with a clear lane to pass!! He said that when there is an auto accident in Italy there are normally ALWAYS fatalities because of the way they drive. Another interesting thing he told me was when there is a fatal accident, the car(s) are left on the side of the road forever.

Congratulations Amanda, you survived Rome!!

I have always wondered about this. Why is there so little support for a court decision that goes against one's personal belief but yet when the court decision goes along their lines of thought, it is the right decision? Sounds like a fair weathered friend to me.

It's like OJ. If the court had locked him up, it would have been the right thing and the court was good. That he was acquitted, the court is bad. Another example is the 2000 Bush/Gore decision. To many liberals, it was a bad decision. To many conservatives, it was a good decision. Had it been reversed, liberals would hail the court and conservatives would want the courts lynched.

I think it would be fair to say that we only respect a court that sides with the way we think and if they don't, they are wrong, bad, stupid, etc, etc. So what is the point of the court if we won't respect it's decision ESPECIALLY WHEN it goes against what we believe? Can we really say that we respect the court and not just the decisions that go our way? I think not.

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similar to the recent Casey Anthony case in Florida. Most people didn't bother to listen to the follow-up statement made by the prosecutor. "This is a bare bones case"; i.e. they got to the body too late which meant all the evidence had literally deteriorated, no DNA, no fingerprints to process through a crime lab, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH. Though there were a lot of smoking guns, there wasn't enough evidence to convict so the jury did what juries are required to do....acquit.

It's because the law is the mechanism by which we attempt all to imperfectly to achieve justice which, as a lawyer relative of mine once told me, is only remotely connected to the law if you're lucky.

Same reason people take "the law" into their own hands, to achieve "justice".

Jurys do indeed have to abide by the letter of the law. But having been on a jury myself I will say that happily for me it was a minor case and I would hate to be stuck on a major one like the Anthony case for example. There's no way in hell I could pretend to myself shes innocent just because she managed to get away with it. Same with this one.

- Peter.

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I think Casey Anthony did it, but then again I wasn't sitting in the Jury Box to hear ALL of the evidence though I did watch most of the trial on television. Still, there wasn't enough direct evidence to convict her and thus the juries' acquittal. Had they gotten to the body much earlier there would have been plenty of DNA, fingerprints, etc.

I believe Amanda Knox is innocent. She was caught up in a case in a country inhabited by people who tend to base decisions soley on emotion, not facts.

Never been on a jury myself so IDK but why do you have to pretend? If you hear the evidence presented and you feel he/she is guilty, vote that way. Argue that way if you have to but why pretend?

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I wonder who will play her in the movie?

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Because there are plenty of cases where one gets off on a legal technicality. That has nothing to do with wether or not you are guilty. The jury has to be guided by the legality of the issue, not the justice. The Anthony case being a prime example.

As I said earlier, the law and justice are only marginally connected in many cases.

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I'd hit it.

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She arrived home yesterday in Seattle. Congratulations Amanda, and welcome home!!

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Good looking, long protracted gory sordid story full of dope and kinky sex and murder to tell. She's got it made.

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When judging guilt.

OTOH, it someone is guilty according to the letter of the law but the jury doesn't agree with the law, there's that little right called jury nullification. And fortunately, an innocent verdict is basically impossible to appeal in the US.

(I'd always vote not guilty in a drug case, so long as other crimes are not involved. At very least, I'd hang the jury.)

But if you start with guiding your actions with what YOU perceive as justice, aren't you part of opening the floodgates for the next few people to go with what they see as justice? Where will it end? Obviously if we can simply go what our own perception and it is always right, sure. We can't make that claim, can we? If we take it further, I might feel that it would be just to send this guy off to prison since he probably is guilty of other crimes and this might at least pay him back for his past. It is a slippery slope when we each go off on our own ideal of justice and not follow the legality.

I know, the system isn't perfect but it is about as good as we are going to get sort of an omnipotent being that can render true justice.

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