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By avoiding making a clear, unambiguous statement regarding Patrick Lumumba's innocence, yet declaring that she was not at the scene of the crime, it appears that Knox was attempting to obfuscate the facts. Both cannot be true. Knox could not declare that Patrick was guilty, or that she could imagine that Patrick was guilty, if she was not there. That bizarre claim obviously did not clear her of the murder. That lie made things worse, and it didn't look good that she'd been lying for days about her activities on the night of the murder.
That's also the basis for her conviction for slander that has been upheld by all courts.
She continues to lie. That liars cannot be trusted to give a true statement seems to elude many. Knox is a well documented liar, like Casey Anthony, but each time the lies are excused, like Casey Anthony.
Yes, exactly. And I loved your other post which explained the difference betwen False Accusation and False Confession. A false, or coerced, confession would have been something which was detrimental to her. As in, she was really innocent, but she claimed she was guilty and committed the murder, and thus she was charged for a crime she didn't commit.
The blaming of Patrick was actually beneficial to her at the time she was saying it, from her state of mind. Patrick took the heat off of her. Patrick led investigators away from her. The only reason she had to claim she was at the cottage,
was to support her claim that Patrick did it. Because how else was she going to explain to prosecutors how she knew that Patrick did it? There was no other way. She would have to have been a witness to Patrick's crime, for her to even attempt to blame him. So he had to insert herself into the crime, but she did so in a very minimal way, by just being on the outside and "hearing" something. But yes, the important part in all of that is that she
saw Patrick.
So how is that a forced confession?? Coming from her state of mind, that was not detrimental to her. That was beneficial to her, in that she could say she saw Patrick committing the murder.
It was not a forced confession, as in, "
yes, it must have been me who did this to Meredith. Yes, I remember something vague, that I was there and I was holding the knife, and Meredith was screaming, and I did something to her. I can't recall exactly, but I know I did something to her." Did she say something along those lines? No, she said Patrick did something to Meredith.
How this accusation panned out is not the point. It didn't end up benefitting her, because Patrick was taken out of the picture with his alibi, and what was left was a lying Amanda.
But at the time she said it, she thought it would be beneficial to her, her state of mind at the time of her statements regarding Patrick was that it would end up benefitting her.
There goes the "forced confession" theory.