Foxy Knoxy murder turns political

From what I can find out doing search engines the US government (including Hilary Clinton) want to look into the trial to make sure it was fair. One of the concerns is that the jury was not sequestured. They were allowed to read the newpaper reports on the trial and murder case and to watch TV the whole time the trial was going on. It is being said that some of the newspapers printed untrue things that may have caused the jury to find her guilty. Instead of just basing their decision on what was said in the court room. The process for trails in Italy is different than in the US. Because she did the alleged crime in Italy the trial was done in Italy according to its rules. Here in teh US the jury would have been sequestured and told not to read the newspaper articles or watch any TV shows about the murder. The same rules do not apply in Italy. But honestly I don't know what Clinton can do. The trial was done according the rules of the country the crime was done in.We can't really step in and tell them they have to change their rules to suit us because the person on trial is a US citizen. I don't know if she is guilty or not. I don't know enough about it. I hope an innocent person is not in jail. But if she did do it than she deserves to be in jail and the 25 year sentence she got is light.

I don't have an opinion on the verdict, since I don't have all the information regarding the case. You have more than I do. But I assume that the jury had all the evidence and information presented to them as well as any exculpatory evidence presented to them by the defense. I realize that Knox is an American citizen being tried abroad, but she is being tried in the country where she committed a crime (allegedly) and unless there is some reason to believe that she did not get a fair trial by the standard of law we use in this country, I do not see any reason for our State Department to be involved. If an American were in a country where the law was excessively harsh or one might commit a crime unknowingly (such as in some middle eastern countries where simply talking to a man or wearing too short a skirt is a crime but is not one here) I don't know what Clinton can do. Knox got 26 years for murder. I don't know if that's commensurate with what she would get in the states, but it doesn't seem excessive. Many murder convictions in the US result in sentences of 25 years to life. I think that to involve the Secretary of State in this particular case would be insulting to the Italian government and judicial system. In order for Clinton to get involved there would have to be some proof of irregularity or some mitigating circumstances that might warrant commuting the sentence. I have not seen either of those things being alleged to exist.

While I readily agree, there were MANY issues with this case and how it was handled, I'm not an Italian citizen. It really bugs the crap out of me when other countries tell us how our legal system in the US SHOULD be and try to dictate sentencing and crap. I mean, even now we have all these morons in France criticizing us for trying to have a pedophile and rapist extradited so he can face sentencing for crimes to which he has already confessed. As such, I'm not going to pas judgment on Italy as I don't know all the ins and outs of their legal system. I just hope that they have, or will, convict and sentence the right person.

One has to argue with your version of the evidence. There was no physical evidence that Knox was in the victims room. Knox's DNA on the knife was so minuscule that it could easily have come from cross contamination in the lab and was all destroyed in the first tests so that the defense had no chance for a new test; there is also the fact that they shared the residence and probably shared the kitchen and the knives in the kitcen so Knox's DNA could have gotten on the knife from that source. There was no physical evidence from the victim on Knox, no hair, no blood, noting. Knox's original qustioning was without a lawyer and without an interpretor and she was probably in a distraught state if not in shock.