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The silly girl couldn't keep her stories straight.

Short term memory loss? That hash-laced pot can be powerful. Of course it looks suspicious that Knox didn't keep her stories straight, but the evidence against her is...where?
First she says she was at her boyfriend's, then she was in the house hearing the screams...she looks guilty at this point, but then I say to myself, the motive is...what?

I don't buy for one second the whole drug-crazed attack, or some satanic ritual angle...smoking hash and pot wouldn't lead to a mental state that facilitates murdering someone in cold blood, or sexually attacking them. It would more likely chill you out a bit from whatever anger you had been feeling.

I read that one of the elements of the prosecution's case was Knox's lack of emotion after the discovery of the body but even that wasn't really sustained by any evidence.

Plus, her accusation against her boss (hmmm, blame the black guy defense?) really puts her in a bad light. Once she played that angle everything about her seems dicey. Couple that with the lies about the cell phones (which seems to have been constructed to create an alibi for her and the Italian boyfriend) any jury would consider her testimony to be untrustworthy. I agree that is very suspicious but there is something very important to remember: no evidence at all was produced to prove Knox had been in the room where Kercher's body was found. Not a single fingerprint or piece of forensic evidence was found in the room from either Knox or her boyfriend.
But Rudy Guede's fingerprints were all over Kercher's room. Maybe I do not have all the facts, I am new to this topic before today...how does the prosecution explain this?

..most Americans have a romantic fascination with Italy. It is a country glorified in US classrooms from an early age for it's history of art and architecture, its Roman roots, and its cultural leanings in food and leisure. I agree with this. I think it's wrong to suggest there is some kind of anti-Italian attitude in the USA. In classrooms, but also everywhere else in America, we have a love of Italy and all things Italian. A simply HUGE amount of Americans trace some ancestry back to Italy so you have a lot of ethnic Italian pride everywhere. A universally praised cuisine, high culture like opera, fashion, etc.
There are really more things in American media about Italy that are positive I think, than negative.
The cosa nostra thing is from a distant time...Americans today see Italy in terms of fashion, art, history, etc.

This case, however, does put the Italian judicial system in a very negative light. Mind you, that's not to say things about the American system are much better.

Italian boyfriend's white too, right? He's very pasty white, but I don't think very good looking at all. Just sayin'

^ Harsh. (And now an edited post.) I removed the F-bomb very soon after I posted it. The rest was basically asked for. And thanks for your moderation, but we have quite enough of that around here.