to think that the people on here who were condeming Amanda Knox should apologise?

[margerykemp]

Some of the language used by some people on here was really appauling.

Hang your heads in shame!

Yes, make money from a murder, what a good idea.

That's a rather passive agressive non comment. She's making money out of spending 4 years in prison for a murder she did not commit. Should she just accept this injustice and go off and live quietly on the dole? Can you even imgine how much debt her parents have got themselves into in the last 4 years? Why should they have to pay all that back?

How else do you propose that she earn the money to repay debts accrued because of being wrongly imprisoned for murder?

I don't know what she wanted to do before this happened and I don't know what plans she has now for a career but I had the impression that she has huge support in the US where she is generally considered an innocent victim of a miscarriage of justice. Isn' t that the case? It is the impression I get from American media at least.

I think she could still get a good job, don't see that route closed to her. If she is considered innocent, finishes a good degree, speaks fluent Italian, she can regain control of her life.

What they need to do is get Amanda Knox on the Jeremy Kyle Show. He'll find out the truth with the use of his pesky lie detector.

If she is innocent as has been decided then after all she has been through and with the attitudes as seen on this thread which will follow her for the rest of her life I wouldn't blame her for trying to make enough money for her to repay her parents and make her life comfortable. Why shouldn't she? And if her parents truly believe she was innocent what would you have them do about making sure she wasn't forgotten or released. You can't blame Knox for the celebrity she has become - that wasn't her doing.

It's not a non comment at all . She spent four years in prison, but as I stated up thread, legally speaking, only one of those years was undeserved. To me, it is morally abhorrent to make money from a brutal murder. If she feels the need to get publicity, the money should go to charity. And not that I feel it terribly relevant, with all the support she's had, I really doubt there is much in the way of a legal bill to still be paid.

But, er, that's how the legal system works. You want a defence, you pay for it.

And by the way, I don't necessarily believe she was guilty, I just don't entirely believe in her innocence either.

You don't think some of the support she's had has had strings attached come her release?

I doubt it, not in the majority. I believe she had a lot of fundraisers held.

It's not a normal defence, her family had to
pay for all the travel, translation- I remember Reading after she was convicted their house was mortgaged to the hilt, as was other close family, to pay for it. Maybe the fundraising came after they ran out...

I don't pretend to know the ins and outs of how they funded the defence, but I still find it sickening that money is made from the fact that there was a murder.

Maybe I'm wrong and it'll be one interview and that's that. I hope that proves to be the case. But I doubt it. I think this will be milked for all the money it's worth.

Tidy, why can't you see that she wouldn't be making money because of the murder, and that she would be making money because of her wrongful imprisonmnet instead.

She was, according to the Italian justice system, wrongfully convicted of murder, not of perverting the course of justice or whatever they would call it. So that is what she would be making money from.

If your it were your child in her early twenties that had been convicted of murder on flimsy evidence, had been questioned in a foreign language, with no legal representation, and sentenced to 26 years in prison, do you really think you would respectfully sit back and do nothing because another family had had their daughter murdered? Or would you do the same as most people and do everything you could to support your daughter?

Because there was a murder, and it all stems from that? I would've thought that was reasonably obvious.

The family can make whatever decision they want to, and as I said I think this outcome will be milked for money. I am fully entitled to my opinion and I stand by it. Money will be made from Meredith Kercher's death and it feels really icky.

Where did I say I would do nothing? Or that the Knox family should've done nothing?

I don't mind debating this, but please don't put words in my mouth.

I don't mean to put words in your mouth, and I'm sorry if you feel that's what I was doing.

I took my opinion from your agreement with this post

However I do think the Knox family had no consideration of what the Kercher family was going through when giving many interviews on the media

Of course this all stems from Meredith's murder. And you are obviously entitled to your opinion. But the point is that if Amanda is innocent, which is what has now been decided, then Meredith's murderer made a victim out of Amanda too. And as her life has been hugely affected by what has happened to her, she has every right to do whatever she wants with her own story.

To all those saying she got off on a technicality and may still be guilty: the judge today clearly stated that they had not committed the crime. There was no solid evidence against them, but much against Guede, who is in prison for Meredith's murder.

Of course today is all about AK and RS. It is their appeal against an unjust conviction. Being falsely accused, convicted and imprisoned for a murder you did not commit should not condemn you to live forever in the shadow of the murder victim.

What happened to Meredith was horrific, and it is a tragedy for her family. But that doesn't make AK or RS guilty.

As for making money, AK will have to pay a considerable sum of money to Patrick Lumumba (she was found guilty of defamation). She's going to need to make money.

Well thank you for your apology, and I'm sorry if you didn't really mean it and it just came off that way.

If she is innocent, I would honestly hope that her freedom is enough for her. Of course her life has been hugely impacted by this, and again if innocent, the year she wrongly spent in prison is crap.

But if she is to tell 'her story' (I still maintain I hope she doesn't), then I hope it is just 'her story' and she talks about her life in prison, etc. Not that I would watch, but I don't want to see her raking up the murder. I suspect that won't be the case though. The media will want it all, and I think she/her family will oblige.

I agree, I think she can talk about her story at the same time as being respectful to Meredith's memory and her family.

Goodnight

wrongful imprisonment? She lied and implicated an innocent man, who was then imprisoned himself based on her lies. She was not 'wrongly imprisoned' at all. Her 'ordeal' hasn't entirely been as a result of the so-called 'corrupt' italian police or judicial system or wicked media, has it?

Goodnight to you too! :)

signofthetimes, of course it was wrongful imprisonment. The only crime she committed was against Patrick Lumumba, for which she was sentanced today to 3 years in prison (already served). The rest of her time was done for a murder she did not commit.

Sweet, innocent wrongly accused people don't go around trying to frame other people in my book.

I also note the non-white, non-wealthy, non camera friendly guy is still guilty though. Justice has clearly been seen to be done.

When this story first came about i had a gut feeling she was innocent and that Rudy guy was to blame.

The "non-white, non-wealthy, non camera friendly guy" left a bloody handprint at the scene. Which sweet, innocent people do not often do.

By the way, why does AK need to be sweet to be innocent? It's a big leap from 'she's a bit of an arse', to 'she viciously attacked and murdered her roommate'. I mean, without evidence other than a 'confession' extracted from a sleep-deprived and rather dense person.