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Amanda Knox To Appeal Meredith Kercher Murder Slander Conviction

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First Posted: 7/02/2012 13:19 Updated: 7/02/2012 17:53

Amanda Knox has launched an appeal against her conviction for slander, her Italian lawyer has said.

An Italian court overturned the American's conviction for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher, in Perugia last October.

However her conviction for slander for falsely accusing Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, the owner of a local bar, of involvement in Kercher's death, was upheld by the same court.

She was sentenced to three years for the offence. However as she had already served longer than that in an Italian jail she was allowed to return to the United States a free woman.

Knox has claimed she was “manipulated” by police during her lengthy interrogation.

According to the Press Association, an appeal over the slander conviction was filed on Monday. It is not clear when the court would consider it.

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Amanda Knox has launched an appeal against her conviction for slander, her Italian lawyer has said. An Italian court overturned the American's conviction for the 2007 murder of British student Mere...
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19:03 on 08/02/2012
I do make comments on this rag but unfortunately they keep taking them off, you must understand that this paper only prints what it want you to read, its probably the same as it was in old Russia, but in a "nicer way", certain Tribes of people have not got to be mentioned, these "Tribes"try to portray themselves as "wonderful" people, they are far from that, Anyone who stands in the way of free speech wether they be Newspapers or TV,etc etc, should be jailed, once you go up that road democracy goes out of the window, these people are in a position of "Control" of your thoughts, an example being the WMD( weapons of mass destruction ) which were going to Gas the whole world according to the saturation press, Mr T Blair and Co ltd found only a few leaking drums of Domestos,lol, Fantastic, Careful how you go, Big Brother is right here
09:25 on 08/02/2012
Waht is the betting the GENUINE opinions printed here will disappear in a puff of smoke, removed by "Moderators" (censors) in favor of the alternative version of the truth, by tomorrow?
But 1984 is gone and we can still judge inside our own minds what to think...the "news"can be controlled - but not people's analytical powers.
ZEB
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17:42 on 12/02/2012
Hi HK40
Sorry to make your day, I am still here.
Just a question? how can you retest DNA that was not there in the first place? puzzel
08:33 on 08/02/2012
she should be in prison,she is guity without a doubt.
09:52 on 08/02/2012
Stop Press.

TJMK is banned, barred or innaccessible by any method from my computer.

Any explanations? This is indeed so rare as to be an eye opener and a danger signal.
ZEB
never fear the zeb is ere
19:17 on 12/02/2012
HK40. just typed www.TJMK.com and went stright into the web site, at the moment the web page is dealing with the Italian ship that went down.
So are you telling a big lie, or is it Amanda magic working wonders from Seattle, just asking.
04:26 on 09/02/2012
I 100% agree!
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07:37 on 08/02/2012
She should leave well alone and think herself lucky that she is free, her behaviour was extraordinary, she tried to get a man she knew had nothing to do with it locked up for life, changed her story numerous times, accused the police of assault. She comes across as a truly obnoxious character.
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George Hanshaw
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
07:24 on 08/02/2012
Three years? GMAFB. Have you READ her statement. After an interrogation that even the Italian Supreme Court said was illegal, the woman wrote a statement that actually AVOIDED giving the police the statement that they were demanding, describing what she saw as a 'vision' and qualified THAT by saying she didn't really know if she wasn't just dreaming it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_qaiMmfwk0

Then she RETRACTED it the next day, after no longer being in police custody. So the cops then lock the guy up for two weeks - even when they see immediately he has an airtight alibi, and keep his establishment (which wasn't the scene of anything) locked up for months until he goes broke. And for this she gets three years?

Sounds like the court just didn't want to pay four years worth of restitution on her, like it will for Sollecito.
06:34 on 08/02/2012
Never liked this young woman, after reading her
events of the story, call it intuition or otherwise.
She was at the crime scene, too ready to blame others,
no matter who,we may never know what part she played,
in this terrible crime.
wes.
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07:11 on 08/02/2012
Thank God the Italian court system based their verdict on no evidence of Knox even being there vs. your intuition. The real killer is in jail and was convicted based on hard evidence - not stories made up by the prosecution to get reelected.
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19:03 on 08/02/2012
@weskirk- You're right, there are too many unanswered questions, and Knox's statements, evidence and behavior point to her involvement in the crime, IMHO.
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kcmookie
This is like a bad habit.....
21:55 on 09/02/2012
This is really turning into your meme sanf, please share with us what questions and what evidence you are referring to?
05:26 on 08/02/2012
Unfortunately some Americans think they have the right to murder people across the world without retribution. They regard other nations as being sub-human. The attitude is: she did it, but so what? She's an American and we can do what we like. Look at the way their soldiers treat prisoners - rape, torture, murder - and the citizens of the good old USA call them 'American Heroes'. They are the new Nazis and the Stars and Stripes has inflicted more fear than the swastika ever did.
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06:14 on 08/02/2012
That last sentence really made me chuckle. I have to assume HP let this idiotic post go purely for the comic relief this post provides.
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kcmookie
This is like a bad habit.....
21:51 on 08/02/2012
GASP! We have found common ground.
21:44 on 13/02/2012
What KC said.
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03:28 on 08/02/2012
Article fails to mention that she said she was with her boss and was there when he raped and killed her.

A woman as bright as Knox is is not going to do that unless she was tortured into the story, or is either really young, mentally ill, mentally disabled, or all three.
02:54 on 08/02/2012
Oh, did the italian justice(sic) get its little feelings hurt?
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02:01 on 08/02/2012
wow, amanda just accepted a role as m.c. for the late night knife shows on cable
that should be exciting..........
21:45 on 13/02/2012
uhhhhh....what are you talking about?
00:16 on 08/02/2012
At the end of the day its what can be proved beyond reasonable doubt in court, and because of multiple blunders the conviction was overturned even though she was originally found guilty. The only people who know what happened were the victim and her murderer(s) and unfortunately the victim will never tell her tale. My own thoughts are that Knox is a manipulative,scheming and deceitful person and I am glad shes in the US and not near me. Please don`t knock Itailian courts either the yanks have enough miscarriages of justice to worry about, look at OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson clearly paying his accuser to make charges vanish and the disturbing case of Casey Anthony and the murder of her 2 year old daughter. In many cases it does seem that money talks and the guilty walk. If she had any decency about her Knox would vanish into the background and not cause the victims family any more heartache.
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21:36 on 07/02/2012
Make this murderess show up in court then arrest her again on murder. She got away with it and you have to wonder how. Did they get a nice bribe ???
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22:27 on 07/02/2012
The real evidence proved her innocent. Wake up
GOODDOC1
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23:06 on 07/02/2012
She was released because she was found innocent in an Italian court of law. If you had evidence to the contrary, perhaps you should have let the prosecutors know before trial. It's too late now, so you can quit your whining.
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21:16 on 07/02/2012
Amanda, dear, the smart thing is to stay home and let it go.
20:44 on 07/02/2012
Amanda knows the truth. The life she chose to live in Italy and her roommates murder are all tied together. Is she guilty of murder, probably not, by association, probably yes.
21:01 on 07/02/2012
She was guilty ok, rich parents, small sentence to keep certain people happy then freedom, nothing to raise my eyebrows, reminds me of O j Simpson, like her, covered in DNA, being rich opens every door, end of
GOODDOC1
"civil war" is an oxymoron
23:08 on 07/02/2012
I would think that if you had evidence to support your claims you would have contacted the Italian prosecutors. And do you have copies of her father's 1040 forms to support your claim that he is rich? I didn't think so.
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00:30 on 08/02/2012
Her parents weren't rich and in fact, spent every penny they had or could borrow on her defense. Regardless of whether you believe she is innocent or guilty, her release her nothing to do with money, and everything to do with evidence - or the lack thereof.