Knox, 36, hoped to overturn conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering British student Meredith Kercher
A Florence court has upheld a slander conviction against Amanda Knox for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher.
The American, 36, had asked for the conviction to be dropped, saying she had returned to Italy in the hope of “clearing my name once and for all of the false charges against me”.
She cried when the sentence was read on Wednesday and told her lawyers: “I didn’t expect it, I’m very disappointed,” the Italian news agency Ansa reported.
Italy’s justice system is wildly fucked up. Read the details of this case: she was detained and questioned under extreme duress for hours with no lawyer or interpreter present while the police lied to her. She eventually gave in and named someone else who might have done it.
That’s it. She didn’t go out in public and accuse this guy. She didn’t give his name to the press. She just offered up a name as a potential suspect to the police after being questioned without an attorney in a country where she only speaks basic Italian and didn’t have an interpreter. So Italy sentenced her to 3 years in prison for that. Luckily for her that was served at the same time as the 4 years she did for not murdering anyone.
Italy prosecutes scientists whenever a volcano blows up without warning. The medieval peasant mentality is strong.
This illustrates the importance of going full “shut the fuck up Friday”-mode when being interrogated by police. Name, date of birth and country of origin. Nothing else until you have a lawyer sitting next to you.
True, and Italian police are a special breed of grotesque. Italy’s “justice system” is almost purely theatrical. Evidence and facts are not valued in Italian policing or Italian courts the way they are elsewhere in the world.
If you are accused of a crime in Italy, you are in deep shit. Innocence is absolutely no defense in Italy, even if you can scientifically prove your innocence. Facts do not matter. The public’s emotions and opinions are all that matters in an Italian court case.
Well your not allowed to accuse someone else of murder with no proof
Yes you are allowed to do that in Italy, if you’re a prosecutor.
This can’t be a serious user.
I think he might just be an Italian cop. He seems to work on the same level of competence.
I sure am, as unbelievable as you find it to be. Lemmys popular opinions, how should I put this, don’t exactly follow the norm of public opinion.
Except she didn’t, she gave his name to the cops as a potential suspect under intense questioning. I’m not sure how you can justify that being slander.
Well don’t say random names maybe?
Brain so smooth it could be used to define a SI-unit.
