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“Here’s why Amanda Knox has always been innocent” (english translation)

The lawyer from Seattle and friend of the Knox family, Anne Bremner: “In these years we have worked to refute the falsehoods printed in the press, especially in Italy”

The controversy isn’t going away over the acquittal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito after the Supreme Court determined that both are not guilty of murdering Meredith Kercher.

One week after the verdict people are still talking about the case, about a story that is not very well understood which engaged Italians and all too often deteriorated into gossip. The lawyer from Seattle, Anne Bremner, has followed Amanda Knox since 2008 and has become a friend of the girl and of her family. Often a guest of programs on CNN and Fox to talk about the case in Perugia, with Knox’s relatives and ex class mates she founded the association Friends of Amanda which through these years collected funds and in addition information to help the American citizen in her trial. The lawyer Bremner agreed to respond to some questions on Knox’s trials, providing information about the time spent by the girl in prison and her projects for the future.

How well do you know Amanda Knox and why did you decide to help her?
“I worked for Amanda since the beginning of 2008, only a few months after the murder of Meredith Kercher. I was contacted by a group of her relatives and friends in Seattle, which is the city where I work. From then we developed a close relationship and I have become a confidant to Amanda and her family”.

What is the goal of Friends of Amanda?
“During these years we have worked to refute the falsehoods printed in the press, especially in Italy, about her. They called her Foxy Knoxy, accused her of being a manipulator and smoker of marijuana. All falsehoods. Her relatives and I, who saw her grow up as a regular student at the Jesuit Seattle Prep. School couldn’t accept it”.

Why was Amanda judged innocent and acquitted in the end?
Because she is. Amanda Knox has always been innocent. There isn’t a single hair, a fiber or a trace that can connect her to the terrible murder of Meredith Kercher. There were only two presumed pieces of incriminating evidence at the scene of the crime: a bra clasp with Raffaele Sollecito’s DNA and a knife with Amanda and Meredith’s DNA. But various experts confirmed that these items of evidence had been contaminated and compromised during the initial investigations.

Have you spoken with Amanda after the acquittal?
Amanda and I were often in touch when she was in prison. She was more concerned for everybody else than for herself. Now she is happy just like her family is, to be free forever. On the day of the verdict I wrote to her “Good luck” in a message and she replied to me “Thanks Anne! a.”.

What will Knox do now?
“First she wants for all this commotion around her to end. After this she intends to get married with her fiancé Colin Sutherland and work as a writer for the weekly newspaper West Seattle Herald. I know that Raffaele came to meet her in Seattle. What is important is that she’s now free. Fortunately justice was not cast aside. It was only delayed”.

http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cronache/ecco-perch-amanda-knox-sempre-stata-innocente-1114922.html
 
Italy top court: Amanda Knox conviction based on poor case


ROME (AP) — Italy's top criminal court has scathingly faulted prosecutors for presenting a flawed and hastily constructed case against Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, saying Monday it threw out their convictions for the 2007 murder of her British roommate in part because there was no proof they were in the bedroom where the woman was fatally stabbed.

The Court of Cassation issued its formal written explanation, as required by Italian law, for its March ruling — vindicating the pair once and for all in the murder of Meredith Kercher in the apartment the two women shared while students in Perugia, Italy.


It wrote there was an "absolute lack of biological traces" of Knox, an American, or of co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito in the room or on the victim's body. It slammed the quality of the prosecution's case from the start.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/italy-top-court-knox-conviction-based-poor-case-125434208.html
 
'Stunning Weakness,' 'Glaring Errors' Cited in Amanda Knox Acquittal
SEP 7 2015


Italy's top criminal court said Monday that it threw out the murder convictions of American student Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend earlier this year because of "glaring errors" and a hit-and-miss hunt for a scapegoat to satisfy public opinion.

The stunning ruling in March — which wasn't explained until Monday's filing was published — marked one more twist in a years-long saga that boomeranged through the Italian criminal justice system, captivated two countries and left Knox and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, to serve four years in jail.
 
Meredith murder, Amanda acquitted of slandering the police of Perugia.

The prosecutor of Florence had asked for two years and eight months. Knox was told she had been mistreated at the police station the night before his arrest

Amanda Marie Knox, already paid along with Raffaele Sollecito definitively for the murder of Meredith Kercher, was today acquitted by the judge of the court of Florence from the charge of slander against the police officers of the flying squad of Perugia.


http://www.umbria24.it/omicidio-mer...-calunniato-la-polizia-di-perugia/385134.html
 
A memory can be visceral. It can feel heavy, like the lead capes dentists drape over you when they’re taking X-rays. It can make your tongue feel thick and pasty, like you could choke on it. It can make your neck feel constricted, like you’re drowning. It can feel like a thunderstorm in your brain—sluggish and angry cumulonimbus dragging through each other, lightning striking.

more @ http://www.westseattleherald.com/2016/03/26/opinion/amandas-view-anniversary
 
The Strasbourg court’s decision was welcomed by her former boyfriend. “It's time people started opening their eyes on this affair,” Mr Sollecito told the ANSA news agency. “Amanda was questioned for 15 hours without a lawyer and with an unofficial interpreter. There were abuses never highlighted in the media and it's just as well that there are judges that are now giving the right importance to what happened.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...man-rights-grants-amanda-knox-appeal-over-cl/
 
Amanda Knox was on Good Morning America this morning pushing the Netflix documentary. She said the documentary has new information.

THE DOCUMENTARY WILL BE AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT.
 
European court to rule on Amanda Knox's remaining conviction

European judges will on Thursday decide whether Amanda Knox’s last remaining conviction over the 2007 death of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in the Italian city of Perugia should be overturned.

The European court of human rights will give its ruling over Knox’s conviction for malicious accusation. The 31-year-old American is appealing on the grounds that she was denied an interpreter, assaulted by Italian police and subjected to psychological pressure while under arrest.
 
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