{"id":37178,"date":"2011-10-05T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T23:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37178"},"modified":"2011-10-05T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T23:41:50","slug":"is-amanda-knox-the-new-mumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37178","title":{"rendered":"Is Amanda Knox The New Mumia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager praised Ann Coulter&#8217;s article on Amanda Knox.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the pretty young woman defense? Remember the death of the baby in Florida?<\/p>\n<p>We now only convict with DNA evidence?<\/p>\n<p>A woman was horrifically assaulted and murdered and no justice for that poor family. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;t some of those hundred murderers murder again?<\/p>\n<p>Do most Americans believe she is innocent? Because she&#8217;s an American? A pretty young girl? Because she&#8217;s sweet looking? Why? If it was an ugly male? Would they have gone full bore?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.anncoulter.com\/columns\/2011-09-07.html\">Ann Coulter writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Despite liberals&#8217; 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. <\/p>\n<p>The facts aren&#8217;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&#8217;s English roommate, Meredith Kercher, on the evening of Nov. 1, 2007. <\/p>\n<p>Now liberals are howling that the DNA evidence was &#8220;contaminated,&#8221; but they always say that. It wasn&#8217;t. And the DNA was already thoroughly vetted at trial. <\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, let&#8217;s consider only a tiny slice of the evidence available to the police in the first week after the murder &#8212; long before any DNA tests came back. <\/p>\n<p>Murders and murder convictions obviously occurred before 1986 &#8212; the first time DNA was used in any criminal investigation &#8212; so it is possible to establish guilt with no DNA at all. <\/p>\n<p>Knox&#8217;s first-of-several alibis for the night of the murder was that she was at her boyfriend (and co-defendant) Sollecito&#8217;s house all night, sound asleep until 10 a.m. the next morning. <\/p>\n<p>A few days later, when that was proved false by telephone records, eyewitnesses and Sollecito&#8217;s admission that it was a lie, Knox claimed she was in the house during Meredith&#8217;s murder &#8230; and she knew who the murderer was! <\/p>\n<p>She said it was her boss, Patrick Lumumba, the owner of a popular bar in town: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wanted her. &#8230; Raffaele and I went into another room and then I heard screams. &#8230; Patrick and Meredith were in Meredith&#8217;s bedroom while I think I stayed in the kitchen. &#8230; I can&#8217;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&#8217;s screams and I covered my ears. &#8230; I can&#8217;t remember if Meredith was screaming and if I heard thuds but I could imagine what was going on.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Solely because of Knox&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>If the police were intent on framing Knox for the murder, they were easily distracted by this wild goose chase. <\/p>\n<p>Knox later said she falsely accused Lumumba only because the police wanted her to do so. <\/p>\n<p>But absent Knox&#8217;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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager praised Ann Coulter&#8217;s article on Amanda Knox. Maybe it&#8217;s the pretty young woman defense? Remember the death of the baby in Florida? We now only convict with DNA evidence? 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