Amanda Knox

[MarissaNicole]

The BBC, The Times and The Guardian are all decent sources. Of those, The Times would lean slightly more towards American views. The Guardian is the one I would tend to follow, they do a lot of live blogs with breaking news like this. The main UK source to avoid is the Daily Mail. Sources such as the DM and The Sun tend to be quite biased and populist.

I would love to know YOUR perspective since you have been exposed to totally different media than we have over here......

[McPants]

I would love to know YOUR perspective since you have been exposed to totally different media than we have over here......

I have not been following the case at all. As far as I can tell there has been critisism of the media for their vilification of Knox's character at the first trial, but I don't think there's a clear consensus on guilty/not guilty.

[SoonerTexan]

Sources such as the DM and The Sun tend to be quite biased and populist.

I love the Daily Mail. It's so entertaining. Total trash, but entertaining. It's my guilty pleasure.

[Cinderella]

That was the way of "saving face," they will say that her four years served was for that.

Damn I missed watching it live - if anyone has a link of the video, can you post here?

Here you go.

The slander charge, and I could be wrong, may have been because she wrongfully pointed the finger at Labumba?

You're right, it's for wrongfully pointing the finger at the local bartender Labumba.

[MarissaNicole]

Thanks.

I saw something today where Nancy Grace commented saying she thought she was there and part of the murder. I'm really curious why she thinks that. I guess I have more reading to do.

[SoonerTexan]

I also read the Kercher family stood to make money by having the two confirmed guilty--anyone know if that was true? Either way, she's out, but she still has hell to go through and the other girl is still dead.

[moonlight]

Thanks.

I saw something today where Nancy Grace commented saying she thought she was there and part of the murder. I'm really curious why she thinks that. I guess I have more reading to do.

I have no idea, but NG makes me crazy when she says things like that.

[diggitydot]

NG is an idiot who says stupid, unsubstantiated bullshit in search of ratings. I loathe her.

Yup.

That woman is a menace to society.

Truly a label that would be appropriate on 99.9% of the talking heads/pundits on TV. The 24 hour "news" cycle really hasn't done anything positive for our society as a whole.

/hijack

[moonlight]

Her story is on 48 Hours, right now EST. Very interesting..

[MrsK]

I'm watching it too. I was just telling DrK that the theory of the case is so complicated.

[MrsK]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...paign=20130326

Can you believe it? The Italian court has ordered a retrial.

[GrayMatterWife]

I am tired of people saying that the US will decline an extradition request under the double jeopardy exception to our bilateral extradition treaty. I am not sure that is correct. My understanding is that her lower court verdicts/judgments were vacated and annulled. If that's the case, DJ would not apply under US law. I'd like to hear from an Italian law expert.

[diggitydot]

I am tired of people saying that the US will decline an extradition request under the double jeopardy exception to our bilateral extradition treaty. I am not sure that is correct. My understanding is that her lower court verdicts/judgments were vacated and annulled. If that's the case, DJ would not apply under US law. I'd like to hear from an Italian law expert.

That's what I've read and heard from various news sources, too.

[MrsK]

I just cannot believe this whole thing isn't over. I mean, the prosecution's theory of the case is so bizaare. Horses people!