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A wonderful interview with Amanda in the Guardian:

Who is Amanda Knox?

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The included exclusive video interview with Amanda in her Seattle home is well worth watching, too.
 
Amanda Knox, an American exchange student, stabbed her British fellow student and flatmate Meredith Kercher in the neck at the culmination of a satanic rite, a prosecutor told a Perugia court yesterday.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...r-in-neck-as-part-of-satanic-rite-966242.html


Eventually, Mignini’s No. 2, the chain-smoking, no-nonsense Manuela Comodi, persuaded him to drop the references to Satanism. But no one forgot about it, not the jury, not the judge, not the press, not the Perugians, not the court spectators, who could never look at Amanda without wondering whether a whiff of sulfur surrounded her.
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http://nypost.com/2011/10/02/how-occult-obsessed-prosecutor-turned-knox-trial-into-a-witch-hunt/


Amanda Knox stabbed meredith Kercher to death in "satanic ritual"
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http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article242579.ece
 
A student through it all: Amanda Knox returns to UW to finish her final degree requirements

Excellent article from The Daily of the University of Washington

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Knox tries to stay positive by surrounding herself with friends, her family, her boyfriend (UW alumnus and local guitarist James Terrano), and her cat. According to Knox, they allow her to laugh, to play, and to work, through the small things they do to help keep her mind as far from Italy as possible.

“I feel like after so much time in dealing with this, I’ve gained a store of inner fortitude, but only so much … that this doesn’t completely debilitate me,” Knox said. “That doesn’t mean that I feel okay, and that doesn’t mean that I don’t feel hurt.”

She still struggles with her identity, feeling she is wrongfully convicted and that her place in society is being taken away.

“In Italy, I’m a convicted murderer,” Knox said. “That shouldn’t carry weight because it’s not true, but it does. We are social, that is what human beings are, we have a place in society and it seems like that is taken away from me for nothing.”

Until Italy’s Supreme Court decision, Knox continues to pursue higher education and return to a life of normalcy. After nine years as a student, this spring Knox hopes to finally attain her dreams of following in her mother’s footsteps of becoming a UW alumna.
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Right around the time of Knox’s arrest, her mother, Edda Mellas, contacted Giuseppe Leporace, a UW senior lecturer and then-Italian Vice-Consul in Seattle, for advice about her daughter’s predicament.

He couldn’t help her in the legal arena, but he and fellow professors created a course of work that helped Knox improve her Italian and allowed her to continue working on general studies and creative writing requirements toward her UW degree. Leporace worked with the Germanics, history, and other departments to send her books, study materials, and poetry.

“My approach was, ‘I am not a judge, I am not a lawyer, I am a professor and she is a student of ours,’” Leporace said. “‘Whatever I can do to help her be in a good state of mind, while she is in this situation until it’s cleared out, I’ll be happy to do it.’”
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http://dailyuw.com/archive/2014/02/...da-knox-returns-uw-finish-her-final-degree-re
 
The Bizarre Re-Conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito:

The high court ruling was bizarre, even by Italian standards, because it all but directed the new appeals court to return a guilty verdict. (“This evaluation by osmosis will be decisive […] in demonstrating the presence of the two accused at the scene of the crime.”) But its philosophy of what constitutes evidence — also bizarre to Anglo-Saxon ears — was consistent with the way many Italian prosecutors and judges think and act. What they are interested in are less the facts themselves than the narrative they can build from their interpretation of those facts. They see themselves akin to poets, aspiring to a greater truth beyond the accumulation of evidence and dusty piles of official documentation. Their principal tools are rhetorical persuasion, instinct and artistic creativity. When they talk about logic, as Mignini and many of the other lawyers in the Kercher case have, they mean constructing a story that fits the predetermined view that the defendants are guilty.
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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...faele-sollecito-and-nightmare-italian-justice
 
In a furious attack Mr Hellmann, who has now retired as a judge, slammed the ruling in an interview with glossy Italian weekly Oggi.

"The Supreme Court judges in effect carried out a straight-legged tackle," he said. "They cannot do that and they should not have done that. They should have just limited themselves to the law."

"Instead they decided to interpret the evidence and that is a violation of the law. That is incorrect. What they have done is in effect hand the new trial a sentence that is ready and done - their ruling has explained to the judges in the new trial how they should convict the two accused."
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-law-overturning-decision.html#ixzz2u1D11UcR
 
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