Amanda Knox

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I see there is another Amanda Knox series out on Hulu/Disney. I've always followed the case closely. But I have mixed feelings. At first I thought Amanda was involved in the murder but as time has gone on, there isn't a shred of proof (from a DNA pov) against her. But should she continue to make money from the case? I feel deeply sorry for Meredith's family. As her sister Stephanie said, Meredith is the 'forgotten victim' in this. I understand she did spend 4 years behind bars and wants to be vindicated - and she does help other innocent victims who have been jailed - but I feel it's too much now and that Meredith is being lost in it all. What do you think?

She spent about 30 hours sitting on a plastic chair in the station, and was also a bit of a woo American, so yes lots of people would

Where’s your source that she straddled her boyfriend?

I dont know, I've never been interrogated. I can well imagine stretching after a long day in a stressful environment, and at 19 I can well imagine many have a less considered view of what is appropriate pda in that situation.
She was a teen, by all accounts sheltered, naive and spoiled, in a foreign country, pulled into a horrendous situation and initially, in her mind, interviewed as a, witness. I expect the spectrum of "normal response" ranges wider than most people think.

Still not normal imo.
Anyway, it has nothing to do with whether she's guilty or not. She was found not guilty.

I assume you mean straddle, not ‘straggle’?

Yes, at the time her defence (as in the media, not her actual defence) explained it as a cultural difference. Maybe Americans do gymnastics in formal intuitions, I don't know....

Yes, obviously.
What was the point of your correction since everyone would understand?

I thought it was yoga, not gymnastics?
After sitting on a hard plastic chair for 30 hours I’d want to stretch too.

They weren’t interviewed together IIRC.

She pecked her BF on the lips while she couldn’t go in her home and the media captured it. Like sensationalised stories (fuelled by woman hating American hating unhinged police officers) things get exaggerated and people don’t bother checking their sources.

The Italian justice system thing is effectively the reason why newspapers got away with false reporting. They don’t have the restrictions the UK have for example. It was also all pre-Levenson.

I always knew the Italian justice system was dodgy AF (look up the only relatively recently repealed rule about how women in jeans couldn’t be raped) and I remember watching the prosecutor saying he knew Amanda killed Meredith because Meredith’s body was covered by a bed sheet and “That’s only something women do”. Fucking nutjob

The straddling was mentioned by another poster and I replied that I don't find that normal. I don't know if she did it or not.

In any case, I would never do a cartwheel in a police station in front of other people so I stand by my opinion that it's odd. I also argue that it has nothing to do with whether she is innocent or guilty.

Can you say what you think a normal response is please?

How else is she going to make a living? She can't work anywhere now without being recognised all the time.

She didn't just lose four years of her life behind bars. She lost the potential to have any kind of normal life. She is notorious. Everyone knows her face. Her family went bankrupt to pay her legal fees.

Everyone will remember that she was convicted. Far fewer people will remember that she was eventually acquitted.

Personally, I think I was vaguely aware that she had been released from prison, but I hadn't grasped until just now that she was completely exonerated. Mud sticks.

A cartwheel is gymnastics isn't it?

She didn’t do gymnastics.

Though every American I have ever met has been VERY different to any Brit I knew and quite ostentatious. Doing yoga really isn’t that surprising. Or odd. Should she have been self flagellating instead?

The media made everything she did at the time sound absolutely evil.

I rememeber they reported that she went to a sex shop to buy sexy knickers with her boyfriend right after meredith died.

Her boyfriend said later that as the house was sealed off as a crime scene, she was not allowed inside to get anything, and she simply had to shop to buy new underwear.

She got £16k compensation for 4 years in prison - she deserves every penny she can make

Only time I’ve ever been to a police station was the day after my dad’s death to give a statement about a few things due to the circumstances. I was only there for 3 hours but fuck me it’s uncomfortable, and cold, and unpleasant, and grim. I’d have done whatever it took to make myself comfy.

But because she’s not ‘the perfect victim’, people still try and make out that she was somehow in the wrong. It’s mind blowing!

You took that she was straddling as gospel?

she didn’t do a cartwheel. As stated many times, she didn’t yoga

Let’s face it, she was a pretty American who spent the last few days smoking weed and shagging. The police would have said she was suspicious if she was weeping wailing and crying hysterically

And with the greatest of respect, you have NO idea how you’d act in that situation.

It was widely reported that she did cartwheels, which is part of gymnastics.
Of course, the media may have been lying, but we can only go on the information we have.

I think it is strange that Amanda got charged at all, let alone convicted.

Not only was her DNA not anywhere in the crime scene.

The DNA of the actual murderer was all over the crime scene.

"You took that she was straddling as gospel?"

No, I just answered the point that I don't think straddling your boyfriend in a formal environment is normal.

"And with the greatest of respect, you have NO idea how you’d act in that situation."

As an un-athletic middle-aged woman, I know I wouldn't be doing cartwheels because I can't do them and wouldn't be straddling my even older boyfriend!

She didn’t do any gymnastics

She didn’t, nor did she do cartwheels.

She stretched and did yoga which is incredibly normal after sitting for so long.

I would and have done the same.