How can someone have a premonition about something that has already happened??????? OOOOOhhhh Wait!! Now I understand. I think I'm having one right now. I........see two tall buildings..........in a city with a lot of people..............I see an airplane flying rather low in the sky...............it looks as though it's heading straight for the side of the building..................OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH...........NNNNNOOOOOOo............it hit the building. Somebody better call every city with a lot of people and tell them to look out for low flying airplanes heading for tall buildings.
This lawyer can't be for real.
CRIME
In Defense of Murder
Will Italian police ever charge Seattle student Amanda Knox for the 'extreme sex' killing of a British student? A lawyer examines the options.
Mar 4, 2008 | Updated: 7:15 p.m. ET Mar 4, 2008
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As a high-profile criminal attorney in New York, Joseph Tacopina commands $750 an hour to represent clients in high-profile cases. He is the defense lawyer for Dutch teen Joran van der Sloot in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, and he has been part of the defense teams of Michael Jackson, New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik and Diana Bianchi, the young woman at the center of Christie Brinkley's divorce suit. Now Tacopina is acting as an unpaid consultant for Amanda Knox, the Seattle student arrested in Italy after the notorious "extreme sex" murder of Knox's British roommate, Meredith Kercher.
An Italian judge believes that a young Seattle woman instigated a vicious 'extreme sex' killing. Her student friends say she is just a dorky sweetheart. Deconstructing the grim tale of Amanda Knox.
Kercher was found last Nov. 1 with her throat slashed in the bedroom of the Perugia villa she shared with Knox. Also held are Knox's Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede, an immigrant from Ivory Coast said by Italian police to have a record for selling drugs. The suspects can be held up to a year before charges are filed. Tacopina, who practices criminal law in the United States and Italy, sat with Barbie Nadeau in his offices at the Villa Brasini in Rome to discuss the case. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: The Italian press has called you the Perry Mason of the Perugia case. What is your exact role here?
Joseph Tacopina: I am consulting [Knox's family] in an informal way. Her parents have phoned me, and we got to know each other when I spent some time in Perugia. I am not their lawyer, but I formed an opinion based on the bulk of evidence I have seen from both prosecutors and the defense.
How is her state of mind?
She's doing well for someone in her circumstances. She's in jail in a foreign country for a crime she claims she didn't commit. And she's not, I'm sure, having fun. But I think she's trying to adjust and take it day by day and try to get through it. Her parents are there day by day; they rotate.
The press has been given unprecedented access to the investigators and prosecutors in this case. Do you think that has hurt her in any way?
The presumption of innocence does not have the same meaning in Italy as it does in the United States. For instance, there is no scenario in the world where you could be held for up to a year in the United States and not be charged with a crime.
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