Don't believe the far fetched accusations till you've heard the far fetched explanation
Amanda Knox and her Italian Raffaele Sollecito boyfriend are accused of killing British student Meredith Kercher in what is being described as a 'sex game gone wrong'. The American media was ridiculing this explanation as far fetched right up until the recent death of actor David Carradine in Thailand. Knox had an alibi too - "the black kid did it!" In this case the black kid is a drifter from the Ivory Coast named Rudy Guede. Rudy did get convicted for that one, and was sentenced to 30 years. That didn't get Foxy Knoxy off the hook.
So what's the big deal? - It's not like she killed an American!
Now this has been a kind of America vs The World case. Brits and Italians feel that she should be strung up by the tits and slow roasted over coals. Americans - lead on by Knox's mother and step father - feel that Amanda Knox is a good all American girl getting railroaded by corrupt Italian officials looking for a fall gal. The fact that the Italian prosecutor is under investigation, and is basing part of his case on a well known Italian psychic 'occult investigator' doesn't help. The fact that Amanda has posed for pics, later posted to Myspace, with guns and military paraphernalia, hasn't deterred her advocates.
Maintaining innocence or beating the system?
Knox doesn't exactly come off as the sweet girl next door either. In any other circumstances she'd look as guilty as sin! Apart from her interest in pulp fiction style sex games and guns, she seems to be pretty cynically putting the prosecution on the defensive. She's accused Italian police of beating her, abusing her, and trying to pressure a confession out of her (though she has been allowed to keep her iPod - according to her step father). She's making the trial about the Italian authorities more than the question of her own guilt or innocence.
Now in the court of public opinion that's usually taken as a sure sign of a guilty person attempting to get off by playing the system. In this case she's a white middle American who was allegedly discreet enough to allegedly commit crimes out of the country. So it's root root root for the home team. In this case Foxy Knoxy doesn't have the home field advantage.
Though she relies on an interpreter, Amanda has become fluent in Italian during her year and a half in prison. Did she learn in the school of 'hard Knox'?
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