Dennis Prager praised Ann Coulter’s article on Amanda Knox.
Maybe it’s the pretty young woman defense? Remember the death of the baby in Florida?
We now only convict with DNA evidence?
A woman was horrifically assaulted and murdered and no justice for that poor family.
I’ve never understood the favorite saying of liberals that a hundred murderers should go free rather than one innocent person be convicted. Do they really mean it? Wouldn’t some of those hundred murderers murder again?
Do most Americans believe she is innocent? Because she’s an American? A pretty young girl? Because she’s sweet looking? Why? If it was an ugly male? Would they have gone full bore?
Despite liberals’ desperate need for Europeans to like them, the American media have enraged the entire nation of Italy with their bald-faced lies about a heinous murder in Perugia committed by a fresh-faced American girl, Amanda Knox.
The facts aren’t elusive: In December 2009, the Italian court released a 400-plus page report detailing the mountains of evidence that led the judges and jury to conclude that Knox, along with her Italian beau, Raffaele Sollecito, and a petty thief of her acquaintance, Rudy Guede, had murdered Knox’s English roommate, Meredith Kercher, on the evening of Nov. 1, 2007.
Now liberals are howling that the DNA evidence was “contaminated,” but they always say that. It wasn’t. And the DNA was already thoroughly vetted at trial.
Nonetheless, let’s consider only a tiny slice of the evidence available to the police in the first week after the murder — long before any DNA tests came back.
Murders and murder convictions obviously occurred before 1986 — the first time DNA was used in any criminal investigation — so it is possible to establish guilt with no DNA at all.
Knox’s first-of-several alibis for the night of the murder was that she was at her boyfriend (and co-defendant) Sollecito’s house all night, sound asleep until 10 a.m. the next morning.
A few days later, when that was proved false by telephone records, eyewitnesses and Sollecito’s admission that it was a lie, Knox claimed she was in the house during Meredith’s murder … and she knew who the murderer was!
She said it was her boss, Patrick Lumumba, the owner of a popular bar in town:
“He wanted her. … Raffaele and I went into another room and then I heard screams. … Patrick and Meredith were in Meredith’s bedroom while I think I stayed in the kitchen. … I can’t remember how long they were together in the bedroom, but the only thing I can say is that at a certain point I remember hearing Meredith’s screams and I covered my ears. … I can’t remember if Meredith was screaming and if I heard thuds but I could imagine what was going on.”
Solely because of Knox’s claim that Lumumba murdered Meredith, he was arrested and sat in jail for two weeks before being released when the police discovered about a hundred eyewitnesses who could place him at his bar all night, the night of the murder.
If the police were intent on framing Knox for the murder, they were easily distracted by this wild goose chase.
Knox later said she falsely accused Lumumba only because the police wanted her to do so.
But absent Knox’s false accusation, there would have been no reason for the police to consider Lumumba a suspect in the first place. He was a successful entrepreneur in Perugia, married with a child, and had no connection whatsoever to the murdered girl.