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US Attorney joins Amanda Knox appeals team

by Susan Marie Kovalinsky | January 7, 2010 at 05:43 am

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Perugia, Italy:

The family of convicted murderer Amanda Knox has told press that a U.S. attorney who holds an international practice with an international practice has joined the Italian team who are planning a strategic appeal for in the hopes of overturning Knox's conviction last month.

In Monday's statement to the press it was revealed that Theodore "Ted" Simon will bring international as well as criminal defense experience to the appeals process in Perugia.

Simon , who is based in Philadelphia, has been called a "tremendous asset" by Knox's father, Kurt Knox.

Last month, a court in Perugia, Italy, convicted Knox and her former Italian boyfriend of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in 2007. Knox received a 26-year prison sentence. RaffaeleSollecito was given 25 years.
The defendants say they are innocent.

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Barry ORegan

at 06:55 on January 7th, 2010

The thing is the US ignore other countries pleas for the release of their citizens, so Italy may well do the same.

We shouldnt interfere in each respective countries judicial systems and laws.,

Iffy (not verified)

at 09:46 on January 7th, 2010

Amanda seems lovely and I think she has been a victim of bad justice. I hope she will be freed soon.

stejeb

at 14:48 on January 7th, 2010

Amanda seems lovely and I think she has been a victim of bad justice.

And I don't think that the Blackwater mob are "lovely", and I think that the dead Iraqis have been "victims of bad justice".

I think there is very little chance of Meredith Kercher (Amanda Knox's victim) being "freed soon", and there is very little chance now of the Blackwater mob being tried and punished.

If you want to blather about bad justice, at least do it about a case with a reason other than the guilty party being "lovely".

Susan Marie Kovalinsky

at 16:23 on January 7th, 2010

Stejeb: I understand why you were offended by the above comments, and yet if one were to presume Amanda innocent - I am not saying I do, but if one were to, and there is the possibility that she may be - then it would not in any way be Amanda's fault that Meredith Kercher cannot be freed. It would merely be one more injustice on top of a horrible injustice. I often noticed on blogs and forums, when people would state that they thought Amanda was not guilty, someone would say, "Meredith is the victim". But if Knox were wrongly accused, then Meredith would be someone else's victim, and of course, logically, Amanda would be a victim as well.

stejeb

at 17:16 on January 7th, 2010

I understand your reasoning smk, as always, but the thing that angers me the most about it is the assumption, or "wish" - almost - that because Amanda Knox is attractive that she be innocent, despite having been found guilty, and that it is another country's justice system that is at fault.

I haven't seen very much evidence of Americans looking at other cases (where Americans are accused of murder of other nationals abroad and let off without so much as a trial) getting their knickers in a twist about "justice", I guess it must come down to sexual attraction.

And I really do hold by the principal that a person is innocent until proven guilty, equally, Amanda Knox has been found guilty, and will remain so unless and until an appeal court finds otherwise.

If that should come to pass, at least she will have found justice, can we say the same about those innocent, or guilty, of crimes in all states?

Susan Marie Kovalinsky

at 17:33 on January 7th, 2010

I agree, Stejeb; There has been a bias toward Amanda, due to her youth and her middle class beauty. Understood. Let us hope truth prevails, wherever it lies, in the appeals. If she is guilty, she is where she belongs. Thanks for your shrewd commentary. Best. :)