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Continuation Part 3 - Discussion of the Amanda Knox case

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bolint said:
Nobody thinks it in Italy, I guess.
The US has a poor record of extraditing citizens.

But even an Italian(!) Mafia boss (Rosario Gambino) was quite difficult to get extradited:
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Sounds like Comodi's "we don't have an extradition treaty with the US" was shorthand for: "you know there is no way that, if she leaves, those Americans are ever sending her back".
 
Dougm said:
Sounds like Comodi's "we don't have an extradition treaty with the US" was shorthand for: "you know there is no way that, if she leaves, those Americans are ever sending her back".
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I'll just keep repeating that it's amazing she's even allowed to talk about this in court.
 
HumanityBlues said:
I'll just keep repeating that it's amazing she's even allowed to talk about this in court.
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What's amazing is the percentage of their time in court that the prosecution and civil attorneys spend talking about anything except the evidence in the trial.
 
Notwithstanding my compassion for their loss, this is also beside the point in terms of the appeal:

In one of the few TV interviews they have granted, Kercher's sister Stephanie and mother Arline said attention should focus on justice for the victim, not Knox or her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
"In this whole case — going on four years — Meredith has been forgotten," Stephanie Kercher said in a recorded interview on RAI public television this month.
"The attention has completely moved from Meredith to Amanda and Raffaele," she said. "She was lovely, kind and we lost her."
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-09-30/amanda-knox-trial/50617372/1?csp=34news
 
smkovalinksy said:
I think this is an appeal to emotion and guilt, and unfair to the 2 defendants:


http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=14636298
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I agree, but this is fairly standard issue stuff when it comes to murder trials. It's the "you have to convict because the dead person and their family cries out for justice" argument. The bit about them looking you in the eye is a bit much, but Amanda's attorney did pretty much the same thing with her family, pointing them out and saying they deserve respect.

It is slimy, but typical. Not like the she-devil/witch business.
 
bolint said:
She said it in a break.
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Comodi did? Well that's somewhat reassuring. What about the comments about a PR campaign? Was that said during break too?

Were comments about the paid-for jet said during a break as well?
 
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HumanityBlues said:
Comodi did? Well that's somewhat reassuring. What about the comments about a PR campaign? Was that said during break too?

Were comments about the paid-for jet said during a break as well?
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Have they ever said who paid for the jet, if it exists at all? Any photos of said jet? I think not.
 
Scorpion NITE said:
''...Knox’s lawyer Luciano Ghirga declared himself “surprised, to use an euphemism”, that the President of the Court of Appeals showed up to support the prosecution!''
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I did not understand this sentence, either.
It was allegedly about the Cosenza document.
But as Frank reported it, this was removed from the trial file by the judge.
 
Dougm said:
I agree, but this is fairly standard issue stuff when it comes to murder trials. It's the "you have to convict because the dead person and their family cries out for justice" argument. The bit about them looking you in the eye is a bit much, but Amanda's attorney did pretty much the same thing with her family, pointing them out and saying they deserve respect.

It is slimy, but typical. Not like the she-devil/witch business.
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Yes; guess you are correct. Let us hope appeals to emotion, whether from the Kerchers or the defendants, will not be the determining factor at any rate.
 
legal explanation needed

smkovalinksy said:
I think this is an appeal to emotion and guilt, and unfair to the 2 defendants:

The mother of Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox's slain roommate, will look the jury in the eye Monday before they decide on a verdict and ask them to keep Knox in prison, a lawyer for the Kercher family said today.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=14636298
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Can someone explain to me whether this is possible, legally? How can this be?
 
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