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This is really really interesting , Steve Moore retired FBI agent, if you have time to read and watch the videos , trust me something is wrong here :

Professional Opinion From Veteran FBI Agent Steve Moore

Steve Moore Radio and Television Interviews

Injustice in Perugia Forum • View topic - Amanda Knox Case Public Discussion Forum 2-8-2011

I checked out a bit of this site and agree that the ex-FBI agent paints a very corrupt and inept picture of the prosecution team. Unfortunately, the jury ate it all up anyway. The family made the point that the jury selection is random and contains no questions to determine any bias. Everyone in the town knows each, talks to each other, and were listening to the media drive and decide this case in the minds of the local populace before the trial ever started.

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Yup, small town .. could be narrow minded .. however I remember Perugia very well from back in the days..before I would cross the border to Switz. I always would by the famous chocolates from Perugia ..

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Now Italy is going after her parents.

Italy Charges Amanda Knox's Parents With Libel - CBS News
PERUGIA, Italy - A lawyer said the parents of Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of murder in Italy, have been ordered to stand trial for alleging that Italian police abused their daughter.


The Italian news agency ANSA said Curt Knox and Edda Mellas were indicted Tuesday in Perugia for libel.


Lawyer Luciano Ghirga confirmed the indictment and said the trial was set for July 4. He said the couple did not attend the hearing.


The charge stems from an interview they gave Britain's Sunday Times years ago in which the father alleged that police had physically and verbally abused his daughter during questioning after Meredith Kercher's 2007 slaying but before Knox was arrested.


In the Sunday Times interview published June 15, 2008, Curt Knox said, "Amanda was abused physically and verbally. She told us she was hit in the back of the head by a police officer with an open hand, at least twice. The police told her, 'If you ask for a lawyer, things will get worse for you' and 'If you don't give us some explanation for what happened, you're going to go to jail for a very long time.'"


Edda Mellas told the paper that Amanda was told she would never see her family again, and gave a description of the officer who allegedly struck her.


The Sunday Times said that could not be published for legal reasons.


Police have denied harming Knox.

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Now Italy is going after her parents.

Italy Charges Amanda Knox's Parents With Libel - CBS News

That's one thing that rubs me the wrong way about this case. The Italian justice system seems to be treating everything as a PR issue as opposed to simply a matter of justice.

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what are the "Crassly insensitive comments" referenced at the beginning of the article?

No idea. It's a poorly written article for sure.

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This one is a better article on CNN with more details ..

Knox's parents' focus is not on their case, he said, but on her appeal of her conviction, which is under way. There is a break in the proceedings for experts to retest forensic evidence, he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe....knox.parents/

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Hayden Panettiere had the challenge of playing both in Lifetime's movie “Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy.

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I'm hoping my favorite true crime author, Ann Rule, will write a book on this.

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This is really really interesting , Steve Moore retired FBI agent, if you have time to read and watch the videos , trust me something is wrong here :

Professional Opinion From Veteran FBI Agent Steve Moore

Steve Moore Radio and Television Interviews

http://www.injusticeinperugiaforum.o...2011-t747.html

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this looks good for Knox , thank god finally:

Italian court OKs DNA evidence review for Knox - USATODAY.com


PERUGIA, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox won an important victory in her appeals trial of her murder conviction in Italy on Saturday, when a court ruled that it will allow an independent review of crucial DNA evidence after defense claims that samples were inconclusive and possibly contaminated.

I agree...But shortly after Lifetime put out the Amanda Knox movie....horrible timing and I read that so many things in the movie were false

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I watched the Lifetime movie yesterday and Im really disturbed by the case....at one point in prision, the doctor told Amanda that she was HIV positive. He said that she needed to write down a list of people she had sex with. The doctor re-tested her and she came up negative for HIV. The list of men Amanda slept with was leaked to the press making it look like she was an even bigger whore...

I found this authors blog yesterday and she wrote a book called Murder in Italy (HOME - Candace Dempsey, writer/editor). Her blog is Italian Woman at the Table | Let's talk about true crime. - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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I watched the Lifetime movie yesterday and Im really disturbed by the case....at one point in prision, the doctor told Amanda that she was HIV positive. He said that she needed to write down a list of people she had sex with. The doctor re-tested her and she came up negative for HIV. The list of men Amanda slept with was leaked to the press making it look like she was an even bigger whore...

I found this authors blog yesterday and she wrote a book called Murder in Italy (HOME - Candace Dempsey, writer/editor). Her blog is Italian Woman at the Table | Let's talk about true crime. - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Yup, I already follow dempsey on twitter , really interesting...too bad they released the film so early...could have a negative impact on the whole case .. I hope for Steve Moore to fight this !!

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I am curious if the HIV thing is true myself.

The movie did make her seem guilty and her behavior after the death seems to be substantiated by witness testimony outside of the movie fiction.

To me, there still seems to be a lack of motive. Rape is a pretty good motive. Not liking your roommate and then coming home and slitting her throat with a knife seems a bit of a reach.

Provided that part of the movie was true, the police showing up to return a cell phone (weird) and catching them cleaning the house seems pretty damning.

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Yup, I already follow dempsey on twitter , really interesting...too bad they released the film so early...could have a negative impact on the whole case .. I hope for Steve Moore to fight this !!

Its sad because I think it will def have a negative impact...Lifetime has def lost my vote after this! I read the other day that an Italian Official (forget his name!!!!) wrote to lifetime asking them not to air the movie...they ended up taking out a violent trailer of the stabbing, but obv still aired the movie.

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I am curious if the HIV thing is true myself.

The movie did make her seem guilty and her behavior after the death seems to be substantiated by witness testimony outside of the movie fiction.

To me, there still seems to be a lack of motive. Rape is a pretty good motive. Not liking your roommate and then coming home and slitting her throat with a knife seems a bit of a reach.

Provided that part of the movie was true, the police showing up to return a cell phone (weird) and catching them cleaning the house seems pretty damning.

I wonder that too about the HIV. Also, the police showing up with the cell phone(if true) is pretty ironic. Amanda's boyfriend told those police officers that he called the italian 911 however later in court, the prosecutors said he didnt call until after the body was found by those cops!!! I really dont feel like I can take anything from the lifetime movie as truth.

I also read that the man that said Amanda was in there buying bleach ended up saying it wasnt that morning!!!

Also, how Amanda told her roommate that Meredith suffered (before she was questioned) is said not to be true.

Its a mess!!! Lifetime sucks in my opinion now!

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Amanda Knox's Appeal: A Case of Too Little DNA?

Read more: Amanda Knox's Appeal: A Case of Too Little DNA? - TIME


In the Italian justice system, it pays to play the press. Most trials are presided over by professional magistrates, but some — like Knox's — also include a panel of jurors known as "citizen judges." Unlike in the United States, where those deciding the case are carefully screened for bias and sequestered during the proceedings, Italian jurors are not only free to hold preconceived opinions, they're at liberty to follow the news of the trial as it unfolds, leaving them vulnerable to swings in popular sentiment. Leaks like the one that broke this week open the possibility that by the time the evidence is officially presented on May 21 the minds of the jurors will already have been made up. "This is a way to play with public opinion," says Francesco Maresca, a lawyer representing the murdered woman's family. "Obviously, somebody put it in circulation to cause confusion."

Read more: Amanda Knox's Appeal: A Case of Too Little DNA? - TIME

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Amanda Knox reporters harrassed, jailed by authorities - Crimesider - CBS News

Dam..this is getting really nasty..they are obviously realizing how much international attention this has gotten and are afraid of the embarrassment..

(CBS) - An independent journalist of very modest means is at home in his apartment. Five police officers enter. No warrants, no badges shown. The journalist is handcuffed then beaten. He's brought before a court where police ask that the journalist be declared insane because of his coverage of a high-profile case.

According to the Committee, on September 28, 2010, five police officers from Perugia's swat-like team, Squadra Mobile (della merda), entered Sfarzo's apartment without a warrant. The Committee says police used excessive physical force on the journalist as he was handcuffed and taken away. Sfarzo was brought before a judge and the police asked that Sfarzo be "certified" insane. As evidence of his mental illness, the Committee says the police showed the judge reporter notebooks that Sfraoz kept about the Knox case. When the judge denied the police request, Sfarzo was jailed.


Sfarzo has been charged with resisting arrest. If convicted, the journalist faces up to six years in prison.

Frank Sfarzo seems to doubt that will happen. In his e-mail to Crimesider he said, "There's a gang of criminals who can do anything and judges protect them. They can beat, insult, threat, frame, force people to accuse other people or even themselves, destroy evidence, create evidence."

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Amanda Knox trial blogger shut down

Amanda Knox trial blogger shut down - Local News - Seattle, WA - msnbc.com

Thank god for livin in the US , we have free speech protection..thank god ..

In a country that doesn't have the free speech protections we do, the prosecutor - Mignini - is suing Sfarzo for defamation. He's not alone. He's just the latest in a growing list of people being sued or threatened by Giuliani Mignini.

American Crime Writer Doug Preston, another Mignini critic, who felt so threatened he fled Italy.

"In Italian, with no lawyer present, in which Mignini accused me of heinous crimes, demanded that I confess,” he said.

Mignini even threatened to sue westseattleherald.com and Steve Shay.

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Looks like a TV movie on Liftetime will premiere on 2/21.


Hayden Panettiere Defends Convicted Murderer Amanda Knox: She Was 'Innocent' - FoxNews.com

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Looks like a TV movie on Liftetime will premiere on 2/21.


Hayden Panettiere Defends Convicted Murderer Amanda Knox: She Was 'Innocent' - FoxNews.com

what are the "Crassly insensitive comments" referenced at the beginning of the article?