Amanda Knox & Raffaele Sollecito freed on appeal in Kercher case

[seafoid]

AN ITALIAN COURT has convicted American Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for a second time for the murder of a British student in Perugia in 2007.
The court sentenced Knox to 28 years and six months in prison and Sollecito to 25 years for the murder of Meredith Kercher, over two years after Knox was released from prison.
She and Sollecito had served four years in prison.
Their convictions were overturned in October 2011, but the Italian criminal justice system does not preclude double jeopardy.
Today, after nearly 12 hours of deliberations, an appeals court reinstated the original verdicts for the pair.
Solecito was in court this morning, but did not return for the verdict. Knox, meanwhile, was in America with, in her words "her heart in her throat".
The verdict raises the possibility of a lengthy legal battle between the US and Italy. If Italy submits an extradition request, the US will have to decide if the request falls under the extradition treaty, but even then, there is no guarantee they would send the 26-year-old to Italy.
An Ivorian drifter, Rudy Guede is currently serving a 16-year term for Kercher's murder.

So are they going to release Guede, or was he implicated along with the other two?

He implicated himself via  a plea bargain so he got 30% off .
The Italian police  have been a joke on this from the start.

They were obsessed about Knox's sex life
As is the Daily Mail

Modern day horny witch

[HiMucker]

Did Guede plead guilty?

[tyrone girl]

As far as i recall Guede did plead guilty, dont think he had much choice he was well implicated.

Think she is guilty as sin in my opinion

[seafoid]

Did Guede plead guilty?

I'm pretty sure he did in the plea bargain so he got a reduced sentence
16 years versus 25+ for the others

[HiMucker]

Cheers.  Well this is the problem I have.  I like Tyrone girl, thought she was guilty as sin too at the start, but I never seen anything in news stories mentioning Guede saying that they done it.  Surely if he has plead guilty, the prosecution would have him court pointing the other two out as well?  Maybe I have missed something and this has happened, but I haven't heard of it.  Can someone fill me in!

[tyrone girl]

I have read 3 books on it (i know they are a lot of the time full of crap) but anyway its that long ago im trying to recall what he actually said about them or if he even really spoke about it at all. I cant remember that he even implicated them at all though my memory isnt the best. Actually wouldnt mind reading one again this weekend to refresh my memory.

[Brick Tamlin]

Without having to trawl through the previous pages, can someone in a brief synopsis, explain what exactly is going on here, what the big deal ,or what were they at?
Explain it in simple layman terms...

is it just not the case that a girl was killed by her 'mate' and the black dude was framed for it?

[tyrone girl]

Without having to trawl through the previous pages, can someone in a brief synopsis, explain what exactly is going on here, what the big deal ,or what were they at?
Explain it in simple layman terms...

is it just not the case that a girl was killed by her 'mate' and the black dude was framed for it?

What do you want explained? What supposedly happened or what?

[Brick Tamlin]

What supposedly happenend and whats all the fuss about..why is the case getting so much media attention.
Not to sound too blasé, but murders happen every day of the week.
Whats the big tickle with this Knox wan.

[Milltown Row2]

Cheers.  Well this is the problem I have.  I like Tyrone girl, thought she was guilty as sin too at the start, but I never seen anything in news stories mentioning Guede saying that they done it.  Surely if he has plead guilty, the prosecution would have him court pointing the other two out as well?  Maybe I have missed something and this has happened, but I haven't heard of it.  Can someone fill me in!

That's nice.

That's what I thought! Just come out and say it.

[tyrone girl]

Think it was the nature of it being foreign exchange student living with girls and has her throat cut and as she was english it was well documented over here.
General jist was they were flatmates and knox apparently landed home to find the house broken into and meredith lying naked in her bedroom with her throat slit.

Several inconsistencies in her story which also led to her telling the police it was her boss who actually done it and had him arrested!!!!


I read a book on it, then read merediths fathers book then read amanda knox book. She actually explained a lot of it away but i still came away from reading all three believing she did it. I did falter a bit whilst reading her book but in general my opinion didnt change.

[HiMucker]

Cheers.  Well this is the problem I have.  I like Tyrone girl, thought she was guilty as sin too at the start, but I never seen anything in news stories mentioning Guede saying that they done it.  Surely if he has plead guilty, the prosecution would have him court pointing the other two out as well?  Maybe I have missed something and this has happened, but I haven't heard of it.  Can someone fill me in!

That's nice.

Sure she is one of us!  I have to say that 

[deiseach]

I read a book on it, then read merediths fathers book then read amanda knox book.

Sounds like tough going.

[tyrone girl]

Why? I love reading and the case interested me. Damm all wrong with that.

[deiseach]

Why? I love reading and the case interested me. Damm all wrong with that.

That's cool. I would have thought they'd be a slog. It's an emotive subject and a lot of the content would be pure conjecture.