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How do you know she was wrongfully accused?  Just because someone’s conviction is overturned does not mean they did not commit the crime.  It means, more often than not, that the prosecution’s case was procedurally flawed. In Knox’s case, the prosecution introduced evidence showing that Knox’s DNA was on the murder weapon but because the evidence was mishandled, the appeals court decided it was “unreliable.”

Facts pointing to Knox’s guilt include her initial confession to having committed the crime (which she repeated in a 5-page memorandum the following day), her false accusation that Patrick Lumumba committed the crime (he had an airtight alibi), her claim that she spent the entire night of the murder with her co-defendant boyfriend, Sollecito (which he could not back up), telephone and computer records contradicting her claims, and her chilling nonchalance in the days following her roommate’s brutal killing.

With all this evidence, the prosecution had good reason to suspect Knox was implicated in Kercher’s murder.  Appallingly, Knox’s family did a fine job of manipulating the American media into believing that the prosecution maliciously and unjustifiably misrepresented her, so eager were they to obtain a conviction. But where there is smoke, there is fire, and no one who has reviewed the prosecution’s case can honestly cast Knox in the snow-white innocence her family would have us believe.

Comment by T. Gold on 10/04/11 at 4:52 pm

@T. Gold,

If you actually care about the facts rather than regurgitating a lot of stuff that’s already been unequivocally refuted check out the injusticeinperugia.org website.

A lot of what you assume to be true is just not. The Italian justice system also disagrees with your conclusion, which is why her case was overturned on appeal.  It was the right decision in light of the weak evidence.

Comment by arias on 10/04/11 at 5:25 pm

@arias,

I’ve seen that website and nothing there “unequivocally refutes” the allegations against Knox and Sollecito. 

I suggest you study the fundamentals of appellate review in criminal cases.  As I stated before, the vacatur of a criminal conviction by an appellate court does not necessarily vitiate the accused’s guilt.  It more likely means that the prosecution failed in its attempt to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.  There was no evidence introduced by Knox’s appellate lawyers undeniably proving she was not the killer.

Comment by T. Gold on 10/04/11 at 5:54 pm

T. Gold—it appears all of your allegations have been addressed and well refuted at the above-referenced web site.  For example, the alleged “murder weapon”—a knife police removed from a kitchen drawer—was never actually established as the weapon used in the murder.  While DNA was found on the knife, no blood was.  I did not follow the Knox case, but have now read enough to know that there exists no evidence that she was guilty.  The extensive amount of false evidence and testimony leads to the conclusion that she was innocent.

Comment by Jeffrey on 10/05/11 at 1:34 pm

Jeffrey—none of the refutations establish she was innocent, only that the evidence proffered was deemed unreliable.  But putting aside the “faulty” evidence for a moment, what about the numerous contradictions in Knox’s own statements to the police and the fact that Sollecito could not back up her alibi?  Her supporters will contend that the stress of her police interrogation led to those inconsistencies.  But plenty of people have been questioned on suspicion of murder and then released when their statements remained consistent and their alibis verified.  I believe she was at the scene of the crime and was implicated in the murder, perhaps not directly causing Kercher’s death, but responsible to some degree, and certainly not wholly innocent as her supporters would have us believe.

Comment by T. Gold on 10/06/11 at 11:28 am

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