The sad case of Meredith Kercher

[FreeGeorgeJackson]

I feel for her parents. The trial seems to have gone on for ages doenst it?
I cant see ( form what i read) how kNox will get off.

I hope that her poor family feel that justice has been done. RIP Meredith.

Ted Bundy was just as good-looking.

And Roman Polanski is a convicted child molester.

These are facts.

Just as Knox's and Sollecito's verdicts are.

I hope they all rot (well, obviously Bundy's already there).

If I were Miss Kercher's mother, I'd be hard-pressed not to do it myself, tbh.

Some people are just low-life scum. Some people there is no saving. They just deserve all they get and then some.

then no-one can keep you in a country you don't wish to stay in!

Apparently CNN seem to think that there has been 'a serious violation of justice'.

Yeah, cos no Americans are ever guilty abroad. The press in the States has been disgraceful from the things I've read online today. Oprah Winfrey had her booked to co-present a show, according to one thing I saw.

I don't expect much of CNN but this is pretty low even for them.

Blimey expat - hoping that's professional experience rather than personal...

Good.

Quote CNN woman. 'Italy is a lovely place to visit but do not do anything naughty because you will automatically be assumed guilty.'

'naughty'?

I'm quoting from another forum there but others confirmed that's what she said.

There's this gem on Twitter too
'Amanada Knox trial just shows how other countries are out 2 seek revenge on Americans and evidence does not even matter in murder trials.'

oh dear shame on cnn

It's a case of My Country Right Or Wrong for much of the media over there though. They seem to have put patriotism before evidence.
I'm sure there'll be an appeal though.

From the comments page on CNN.

'I will only pray that I am able to sit on a jury someday in future and sit in judgement of some Italian. I wont care what the evidence is, I will just remember this trial when I vote guilty.'

It's amazing just how incredibly stupid people can be. It never fails to surprise me.

that leaves me incredulous

expat, what do you mean about 'the type of killer that I have known many times in the past '?

I think expat worked in thr courts.

Not seen you about for a bit, ex.

Well if I was on this jury I'd have been totally baffled. Ok we read the reports and what everyone says but it all seems very odd somehow.

BTW I am not Bonsoir Anna, I just think something isn't quite right here. No idea about the rights and wrongs of it, but how the hell does a jury make up its mind in a couple of hours after a trial like this?

I worked for years in the criminal courts. First in Texas, then in Colorado.

She's been found guilty.

Therefore, she's guilty.

Personal?

I have two daughters, too.

And Amanda Knox is just the type of sociopath even the drug dealer downstairs is frightened of.

I should know, I gave a pretty good impression of her and he's not given me any bother past 11PM in donks.

I am Amercian by birth.

Lived there 31 years.

Reserved all judgement, as evinced by this thread, till the verdict, because really unless you sit in the court you can't know.

A verdict is a verdict.

She's a convicted murderer.

I've commented on CNN myself.

Watch it not get through moderation.

FFS, she didn't bump off some drug dealer or rapist who broke into her house whilst she was sleeping.

This was a 21-year-old woman who was butchered.

I can say that now, as am still in contact with a very high-up at ABC who was a close friend in high school.

That woman was slaughtered.

By a sociopath and her boyfriend called Amanda Know and Rafaelo Sollecito may they both rot in prison!

well clearly she is, expat.

That's the verdict.

but the whole system seems odd somehow and how does a jury make its mind up so quickly? I hold no candle for this girl but something doesn't feel right. maybe she was an american abroad who thought normal rules didn't apply (?) or who got into weirdo sex games but it doesn't somehow gel. Are there appeals from this decision? Presumably there might be.

Ted Bundy, do you know what he went to the death row for?

He wanted to get caught, that's why he started behaving like that.

He went to death row for the brutal rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl called Kim, whom he abducted.

No, not the two Chi Omega girls, they were the backup if he weren't sent to death row for Kim's murder.

I remember the morning of his execution by electric chair, nicknamed in Florida 'Old Sparky'.

I was a school girl myself, getting ready for high school in Houston with my headphones turned to the news radio.

The Houston DJ had remixed the 80s hit 'I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight' to 'I Just Died in the Chair This Morning'.

'but the whole system seems odd somehow and how does a jury make its mind up so quickly?'

Because of the evidence they've been presented with.

I've seen juries take 30 minutes in capital murder trials (in Texas, that means murder in conjunction with rape, robbery, kidnap, murder of a law enforcement officer, paramedic or fire service, or murder of a child aged 10 or under) and juries take days.

Different for every case and every jury, especially as in capital murder the jury needs to be unanimous as in both CO and TX the maximum sentence is either death by lethal injection or life without the possibility of parole.

A guilty verdict is just that no matter how long the jury deliberated.