12-04-2009, 04:01 PM
Thanks for the correction, I see I screwed up Knox's last name, a typing error. Amanda's childhood soccer name and facebook nickname "Foxy Knoxy" has been echoed by the tabloids and news shows, and contributed to my mistake, mixing up knox/fox. I wish I'd corrected the subject heading so it didn't have the misleading title referring to an Amanda Fox. I'm an idiot.
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I just saw an update on ABC News this morning, no verdict yet, but it might come today...
It's not really different in the U.S. and Italy, it's fundamentally the same in both nations. I wasn't being legalistic, I was being literal. Most outside observers, reporters, analysts have concluded that Knox wasn't even there. No real evidence places her at the scene. The victim was stabbed in the throat by Rudy Guede, who left abundant evidence at the scene, and was convicted of the murder in a separate trial. In this case, it's not ambiguous, and has no special regional legal shadings. Knox is 100% guilty or 100% not guilty of the charge of murder. I hope it's the latter!
:nuts:
I just saw an update on ABC News this morning, no verdict yet, but it might come today...
DRR wrote:
.... Whether or not it's "murder" depends on the definition of murder by the United States, Italian, or any other judicial system. What is murder in one country is not necessarily murder in another.
It's not really different in the U.S. and Italy, it's fundamentally the same in both nations. I wasn't being legalistic, I was being literal. Most outside observers, reporters, analysts have concluded that Knox wasn't even there. No real evidence places her at the scene. The victim was stabbed in the throat by Rudy Guede, who left abundant evidence at the scene, and was convicted of the murder in a separate trial. In this case, it's not ambiguous, and has no special regional legal shadings. Knox is 100% guilty or 100% not guilty of the charge of murder. I hope it's the latter!