Amanda Knox

So justice, morality and ethics have rules consisting of whatever you make them up to be in your head?

It is often said, "Live by the sword, die by the sword" (re inflammatory statements that divert threads.)

... but, OTOH, your particular brand of vitriolic attacks and thread diversion are morally acceptable.

And you pull the plug on the diversion when and as you see fit? I'm just sayin' - trying to understand the rules.

oralloy wrote:

I suspect you are not able to understand right vs wrong

So..let's see...how can you question legitimately whether or not I understand right from wrong when I've made no statement that could indicate otherwise?

Knox boyfriend maintains innocence
(By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press, 9/11/2012)

Raffaele Sollecito, whose budding love affair with American exchange student Amanda Knox helped land him in an Italian prison for four years, maintains the couple's innocence in a new book but acknowledges that their sometimes bizarre behavior after her roommate's killing gave police reason for suspicion.

The pair was imprisoned for the November 2007 death of Meredith Kercher at Knox's apartment in Perugia, north of Rome. An appeals court overturned their conviction and freed them last fall, issuing a 143-page opinion that blasted the utter lack of evidence against them. Rudy Guede, a petty criminal who was convicted separately, remains imprisoned and is serving a 16-year-sentence.

Sollecito's book, "Honor Bound," is due out Sept. 18. The Associated Press purchased a copy Tuesday.

In it, he describes how the early days of their relationship became a nightmare: the horror of Kercher's slaying; the misunderstandings that swept them up in the case; their tabloid portrayals as two suspects unrecognizable to themselves.

Knox became "Foxy Knoxy" and received the brunt of the attention as she shopped for underwear after the killing and turned cartwheels in front of investigators. While police investigated the crime scene, Sollecito caressed her and they kissed, unaware of the television news cameras across the street.

Later at the police station she climbed in his lap and draped her arms over him, making Sollecito uneasy, he said.

Police found their behavior "odd" and he acknowledged they had no "real alibi the night of Nov. 1 except each other."

Knox is also writing a book, due out next spring. Her deal, with HarperCollins, is reportedly worth $4 million.

The couple were arrested several days after Kercher's death and later convicted in proceedings that made headlines around the world. Prosecutors portrayed the case as a drug-fueled sexual assault, and Knox and Sollecito were sentenced to 26 years and 25 years, respectively.

The appeals court found the prosecution's theory to be unsupported by any evidence. Prosecutors have appealed the acquittal, and Italy's highest court will hear their arguments next March.

Sollecito frequently criticizes the police for their handling of the case, reaching for a far-fetched conspiracy instead of the simpler explanation that Guede had on his own committed a burglary gone wrong.

Sollecito, then finishing his undergraduate studies in computer science, writes that he met Knox at a classical music concert at the Universita per Stranieri, the University for Foreigners, on Oct. 25, 2007 — a week before Kercher's death. He asked for her number, and she told him to come by the bar where she'd be working later that night. At the end of the shift, he writes, they took a walk, held hands and kissed. She accepted an invitation to come back to his apartment and spent the night.

Soon the couple became inseparable. She began spending the nights at his apartment. They shopped for groceries together, and took a sightseeing day trip to Assisi.

Sollecito wrote about his first night in prison, saying he wavered between "great waves of indignation and a nagging sense of guilt." He said that while he knew he was innocent, he was angry at himself for having a foggy memory of the night of the killing because he and Knox had smoked marijuana.

When they were finally acquitted, Sollecito writes that he felt "indescribable joy." He remembers looking at the police, hoping to see them appear defeated, but they wouldn't look at him. He saw Knox sobbing, and they later had a private moment in the basement of the courthouse, waiting to be taken back to prison one last time. According to Sollecito, she squeezed his hand and said she couldn't wait to see her home and friends.

Knox moved back to Seattle. It's not clear where Sollecito is living.

Knox boyfriend maintains innocence

acknowledges that their sometimes bizarre behavior after her roommate's killing gave police reason for suspicion.

Knox became "Foxy Knoxy" and received the brunt of the attention as she shopped for underwear after the killing and turned cartwheels in front of investigators.

he acknowledged they had no "real alibi the night of Nov. 1 except each other."

Knox moved back to Seattle. It's not clear where Sollecito is living.

Raffaele will be interviewed by Katie Couric for her new talk show in coming weeks.

http://mynorthwest.com/646/729193/Katie-debuts-with-Amanda-Knox-boyfriend

Not sure of the actual show date.

oralloy wrote:

Raffaele will be interviewed by Katie Couric for her new talk show in coming weeks.

http://mynorthwest.com/646/729193/Katie-debuts-with-Amanda-Knox-boyfriend

Not sure of the actual show date.

I believe Katie Couric's interview with Raffaele will be tomorrow:

Tuesday, September 18

Amanda Knox’s boyfriend was stripped naked and physically abused by police before being placed in solitary confinement after the pair was accused of the murder of Meredith Kercher, he claims in a book published on Tuesday.

. . . .

“A (policeman) leaned into me and hissed, ‘If you try to get up and leave, I’ll beat you into a pulp and kill you. I’ll leave you in a pool of blood.’”

Another interrogator slapped him and told him his father was “a fine outstanding person....(who) doesn’t deserve a son like you, someone who would stand by a whore like Amanda.”

. . . .

Following one questioning session, he was ordered to strip naked at Perugia police station.

“‘Take off everything,’ I was told, ‘even your underpants.’ I had already been shoeless most of the night but this was a whole new level of humiliation. I was made to walk around in front of a female doctor. I felt so ashamed I didn’t even look up at her.”

. . . .

Despite having no prior convictions, he was put in solitary confinement for six months, in a cell that he described as “a dark, damp, dirty hole” with a sponge mattress for a bed and “a toilet caked in grime”.

He was later transferred to the prison’s “protected section”, reserved for sex offenders.

“This was a whole new form of pressure from the authorities. Nothing was said explicitly but the subtext seemed clear – if you don’t tell us what we want to hear, you can take your chances with the perverts and child molesters and transsexuals and see how you like that instead.”

(Reuters) - Italy's highest court on Wednesday upheld guilty verdicts on 23 Americans for the kidnapping of an Egyptian Muslim cleric, in the first criminal convictions for CIA "rendition" flights during the U.S. 'war on terror'.

The Americans - 22 CIA agents and one Air Force pilot - who are believed to be in the United States and were tried in their absence - are unlikely to serve their sentences. But they will be unable to travel to Europe without risking arrest.

Italy has never requested their extradition.

All of the Americans were sentenced to 7 years jail by a lower court except former CIA Milan station chief Robert Seldon Lady, who was handed a nine-year sentence.

Publication Date: April 30, 2013

I think it was kinky sex driven by the drugs they were on

I still say Knoxie is guilty as hell.

Anyone who has a douche like oralloy speaking up for her must be really bad.

I only check this thread - I started this whole thing! - when a poster is not oralloy.

Amusing to me, none of the tags are ones I used to start the thread.

I also believe the woman to be guilty; she was on drugs the night of the killing and I believe she was involved in kinky sex. Being under the influence one's judgement is often at a disadvantage with the mind distorting things....our thinking is not clear.