Win or lose, the best part about the end of this trial will be not having to listen to the disingenuous spin being served up by Amanda's underhanded PR team. The girl is as guilty as they come.

It's beyond reasonable doubt that is guilty...at least for me. But come on, COME ON, she is guilty. OMG, I don't want to point out the obvious, but have you realize how fast that black guy give up the legal struggle and just serving his 30 instead of the life sentence which Amanda is going to get? It's all media sensation, she is going to spend the rest of her life in jail, and you will forget all about this psycho bitch after Xmas.

There is a mountain of circumstantial evidence against Amanda Knox and Solecito; as well as good forensic evidence which the defence and spin doctors have described as tainted. The problem with Amanda and her co-defendant is that if you deny something long enough, you really begin to beleive it. Verdict. Guilty!!!!

You people really need to THINK before you start throwing around accusations like that. If you bothered to actually follow the case, ALL of the case and ALL of the evidence, (and i mean, EVERY LITTLE BIT) it is physically IMPOSSIBLE for her to have committed the crime. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong. Sure, you are entitled to your "opinion." But this is not a matter of opinion. It is a matter of fact. Fact: it is IMPOSSIBLE for her to have taken part in this murder. And every forensic expert that has consulted and personally investigated the evidence presented has agreed. The ones who haven't, the italian ones, that the prosecution hired, have admitted in testimony that they DID NOT follow standard protocal for testing DNA and that, in fact, they don't HAVE standard protocal. This is an antiquated city that uses medivel and ineffective methods in scientific forensics. This is a fact. This was admitted by them. The police themselves have released a video, which you can all see online, where they specifically state that they knew Amanda was guilty before they formally arrested her because of "behavior they observed." they go on to state, that other methods of proving her guilt were unnecessary and not utilized by them....because they just "knew." That country is an eff-ing joke.

I really hope she doesn't make a dime if she's acquited - she owes the bar tender a few million in compensation for her wild accusations anyway so that should put a dent into any ill gotten cash. Plus why should she get rich off the back of anothers girls death. Hangings to good for that girl. Lock her up and throw the key away - she is guilty - she has conned you into believing otherwise - this crap about IMPOSSIBLE to be guilty - what crap - were you there on the night? you don't know shit about it. He left the courtroom incidently because he has heard enough of that girls lies - I can't bear to hear them anymore myself.

Dudes, none of you know what really happened.

I think #15 pretty much summed it up. If she's guilty, it was a horrible crime and she deserves a tough sentence. If she's innocent, the stress she's been subjected to horrible. I just hope the jury gets it right.

So she was found guilty . . .

xxxxxx, you sound like you have some pent up anger, its very common for people to project that onto strangers. please get some help for that before you open your mouth in public.
whether or not knox is a murderer, my heart goes out to her family.

I think Knox is guilty of something, but I doubt she was the one that physically killed Kercher.

If she's innocent, why did she change her story three times and accuse a clearly innocent man of the murder? The idea that her allegations was somehow beaten out of her by a bunch of medieval Italian police is ridiculous. Italy's criminal procedures are undoubtedly different than ours, but they still provide defendants with a fair trial, which Knox received.

Guilty or not...I have to feel bad for all parties that have been involved in this lengthy ordeal, including both families. It's a shame that something like this had to happen at all, and it's even more saddening to see young people my age be murdered or be incarcerated. It is a twisted, crazy world that we live in.

and Lexie your reporting is professional until second to last paragraph where your bias shows. The prosecution attacked her character, but their case was more based on arguments around forensics and circemstance.

You without doubt imply that they did little more than sling mud while the defense rationally worked at the substance of the case.

If this is your opinion write an editorial.

You all do fools... believing what you are told in the media. None of us know what happened that night and you are all irresponsible for saying she did it and deserves her punishment or that she is clearly innocent. The Italian legal system is quite different from our own and the media frenzy over this case (pro and anti Knox) was disturbing. You all should be ashamed of yourselves for what you have said and how you have let these wild accusations and anecdotal evidence inform your opinions. This is why we are all the "unwashed masses" because too many of us are easy to manipulate with very little effort. I feel it is irreconcilable with our own future and really worry about all you wing nuts and your aluminum foil hats.

@ BC you make excellent points and bring some needed sanity to this 'debate' thread. But please don't engage with whoever this racist individual is from the UK nor stoop to his level by throwing insults. That is exactly what he wants and will add fuel to his fire of craziness....

I'm from Briton and he doesn't represent my views or generally those of my country. Murder is depraved and tragic regardless of nationality. There is a reason Justice is removed from the 'unwashed masses' and set above them. Way to demonstrate the idiocy of the mob everyone....

oh and Wilson who do you think makes up a Jury you half wit - the 'unwashed masses' or have you got some belief that only the upper classes can be on a Jury.
Justice is something that the unwashed masses are better able to understand than those living in ivory towers who have no real concept of real life.

I find it odd that Knox is described as a former UW student. She was a UW student on semester abroad when arrested and jailed. She no soubt would have returned to UW, and may yet. Seems like the UW community has done precious little to support her in what is obviously a revolting railroading by a prosecutor with a fevered imagination (let's check HIS computer hard drive!) and tabloid press with no moral compass and a major anti-American fixation. Seriously, the principal complaints against Amanda were that she (1) was not a virgin; (2) smoked pot (which in Italy apparently causes people to engage in crazed Satanic cult sex orgies); (3) that she didn't react to the death of her roommate with the histrionics apparently required by the Italian press; (4) that she did yoga stretches to pass the time in detention while waiting for her friend's interrogation to be over (40 hours out of the 90 following the discovery of the body); (5) that she bought new underwear (the fact that her clothes were in the locked down crime scene apparently not reason enough); (6) that she and her "boyfriend" of 10 days clung to each other in fear as all the craziness unfolded around them; and (7) that, upon being told by the Italian police that she was HIV+ (a lie, of course) and forced to divulge the names of prior sexual partners, she produced too many names for the taste of her interrogators.

40 hours of abusive interrogation IN ITALIAN with no translator or attorney present; 14 hours of it without food or drink; demands that she "imagine" how someone might have killed her roommate; specific suggestions that her employer be imagined doing the crime. People being paid thousands of dollars for every imaginary tidbit they could fabricate (I saw her buying sexy lingerie, I saw her buying bleach) all disproved but without concomitant publicity.

In particular, it seems that this travesty provides the U with an excellent opportunity to have student volunteers (law school and otherwise) examine the case and work to free Amanda, if the evidence suggests that she did not receive a fair trial.

I think that regardless of her guilt or innocence, this case is somewhat questionable in its legitimacy. I personally have no idea who killed Meredith. Perhaps it was the man serving 30 years and Amanda and her boyfriend got swept up into the case. Arguing over the possible xenophobia is simply counterproductive here, it causes everyone to get angry and nationalistic. I think perhaps this is a good forum for discussing the Italian justice system, or rather, Common law versus Civil law systems. Hopefully this appeal will clarify the facts. Stop the character attacks, find out if the evidence was sullied by police, get experts who actually follow procedure to look at the DNA, etc. It seems logical to me to try to tie circumstance to the evidence. Anyway, I feel terrible for all the families involved. By the way, how did Amanda and her boyfriend relate to the other man convicted?

Thank you for somebody of your commenter writing that Italy is an Eff-ing country! If an Eff-ing country like ours, after the disasters made by your former President, is among the very few remained friendly with USA, you Americans are in real trouble!
However I would suggest that before making any consideration about the Juridical system of another country, Americans should interrogate themselves about their death penalty and the number of people sent to death and then after their execution proven innocent. At least in Italy we do not have this medieval mean of condemnation!
Very of you remember a stupid of your brave USAF pilots breaking a cable car steel wire in northern Italy causing so many victims a few years ago. The guy wanted to wake up with a jet bang our peasants! What did your government do after this tragedy? Nothing! The guy few years after got a promotion! And is this your correct way to interpret Justice?
Do you really think that Italy belongs to the fourth world and then we are not qualified to put under trial any superior individual? I just wonder if the case, being against an Afro-American girl would have been afforded with the same the same rate of partisanship!. Just for your info, in Italy the first university and its law school (Bologna) was set up in year 1088, Georgetown in DC in 1789!

If Foxy Knoxy was not White, I bet we don't hear about this trial on CNN.

What's up with all the removed comments? Geez, I'm trying to see what other folks are talking about. What they say?

Prosecutors, on basis of the "Code of Gentlemen", should research also discharging evidence about accused; they, and only they, have direct control of investigators (so, do not blame police); they can oppose to witnesses and appraisements asked by defendants, and Judges decides about opposition without a written rule (that is a vulnus in the Code).
In Italy a Judge can transit, even more than once, from Prosecuting to Judging and viceversa, without nothing else than an initial nation-wide competition and successive move decisions ruled by a (unique for both Prosecutors and Judges) Self-Governing Body.
Furthermore this SGB is strictly controlled by a politicized Magistrates Syndicate (What ? Do Magistrates have a syndicate ? In Italy Yes). Within this syndicate great power is given to the (ex-) Communist component, which usually uses Magistracy and its SGB to influence public opinion and stop judiciary reforms.
In Italy most of people combats against this situation and proposes reforms to: separate Prosecuting and Judging careers; eventually elect Prosecutors; pose Prosecutors at the same level of Defendants; have different SGB for Prosecutors and Judges; make Investigators independent from Prosecutors; adequately penalize Judges and Prosecutors who convicted innocents (another thing you do not know is that the SGB can emit a declaration of protection in favour of a Magistrates if an external power intervenes; and because of the (possibile) intervention of Hillary Clinton this procedure has been already started for Mignini, so if in the future Amanda will be found innocent she will be refunded not by the Prosecutor but by the Italian State).
That is the state of the facts. So if you could something, also in the Amanda case, is to put pressure on media against the way the Italian Magistracy is organized and made so invasive.

I am well and truely sick and tired of the pro knox campaign.
The father curt or cu.nt whatever his name is should be ashamed of himself for continuing to support the low life trash bitch killer daughter he brought into this world.
Why is it that when the evidence is weak which it clearly is in this case and i admit it that she has to be innocent. It doesn't mean that at all - it means the bitch did a good job of cleaning up with bleach and staging the break in.
There are cases when the evidence is strong and the guilty verdict is wrong.
She is a calculated killer who had no idea where she was on the night and no idea how to form an alibi because she couldnt.
Not a killer???? - then why did she change her story repeatedly and claim she heard an innocent man killing her - bizare fuking story to make up if your not trying to deflect guilt.

Heres a lesson - if you are innocent and accused of murder - tell the police where you were, don't lie, don't make up stories and please please don't but a ton of bleach on the day of the killing and start bleach knives.
who in the world bleaches knives????

She is a guilty bitch - if her family read this - I hope she rots in hell.

Innocent.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1j7/the_amand...