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Fri Dec-04-09 04:04 PM
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Why is the US media attempting to discredit |
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the Italian courts before a verdict is handed down in this Amanda Knox murder trial. WTF is this about?
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:04 PM
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1. kinda like in sports, rooting for the same side so to speak... |
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Edited on Fri Dec-04-09 04:05 PM by vadawg
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:05 PM
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2. Because it's a pretty young American girl who stands accused. |
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So the Italians must have railroaded her.
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:20 PM
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3. knox has cold, cold eyes |
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i know this isn'tevidence of guilt, but...i read about this case only yesterday, but i get the feeling she is very guilty( IMO )
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:24 PM
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6. Only evidence counts here |
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:22 PM
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4. A jury and judge will make the verdict and unlike the US courts |
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the jury is allowed to deliberate while the trial is ongoing. At least that is what I heard on the news. It will be interesting to hear talking heads if she is found guilty. No one will probably have any idea of testimony and evidence in the case but will all have an opinion. I'm hoping for not guilty just to avoid the media assault that will happen if she is found guilty.
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:24 PM
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5. The verdict will be announced any time now n/t |
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:57 PM
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8. rofl im hoping that if she did it and the evidence says so that shes found guilty |
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and that if she didnt then she is found innocent...
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Fri Dec-04-09 05:01 PM
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10. Not me. I don't think I could stand week after week listening to people |
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talking about nothing they know of. I take the position people beat the rap alot and maybe this would be a good time for it. LOL
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Fri Dec-04-09 05:04 PM
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11. sorry but if she killed the other girl then she needs to go away. :) |
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lol cant believe you would want a murdress to go free when you can just change the channel :)
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Fri Dec-04-09 06:42 PM
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14. 3..2...1....Talking heads on trashing the Italian system of justice. |
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By the end of next week, Obama will be forced to comment on this miscarriage of justice. You see, I'm not really pretending I know either way what happened. All I know is what would happen if she were found guilty. Endless weeks of droning about wheather or not she should have been found quilty. I know nothing of this trial any more than what I know of the many trials going on right now across the country. But the media will latch onto this one and once again drive a story that goes on day in and day out in the this country with no media. And it takes away from the important stroies they should be covering.
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Fri Dec-04-09 06:46 PM
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Here we go - Tiger and the party crashers end their nine day wonder.
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:55 PM
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7. We are Americans. We would never murder anyone. |
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:57 PM
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9. all you have to say is 'u.s. media' it is totally fucked up....ala tiger woods. |
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Fri Dec-04-09 06:13 PM
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12. Knots found guilty - sentenced to 26 years in prison |
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Here we go - M$Greedia has its story.
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Fri Dec-04-09 06:45 PM
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Fri Dec-04-09 06:44 PM
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15. Last month, they found the US CIA guilty of kidnapping... |
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Fri Dec-04-09 06:45 PM
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17. She's a young white woman. |
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Remember the au pair case? Young white woman shakes a baby to death, she cries when the verdict is read, so the judge lets her off?
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Fri Dec-04-09 06:48 PM
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21. She's a young American women. |
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The judicial process is much different there than it is in America.
The jury in Italy consists of 6 layman and 2 judges who are NOT sequestered, meaning they are able to read, research and follow the case on the news.
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Fri Dec-04-09 06:49 PM
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22. Yeah, I know, you keep repeating that in every single thread. |
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Fri Dec-04-09 06:46 PM
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19. Because she is an American being tried in a foreign country and the court system is much different |
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there than it is in America.
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Fri Dec-04-09 07:58 PM
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25. You left out another point. |
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There's no political reason to be in favor of conviction.
With the CIA agents the Italian court system was held up as a paragon of objectivity and virtue fighting against those who would thwart traditional American values going back at least to the reporters' college days.
Wasn't there a NYT op-ed piece today on how bad "selective empathy" is?
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Fri Dec-04-09 07:00 PM
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24. They may have some motives of their own |
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Fri Dec-04-09 08:08 PM
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26. I noticed that too, i thought CNN was quite pathetic today. n/t |
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