To the people of the US and Italy,
Have the people in Italy lost their minds? This trial is a joke!! The prosecutor Giuliano Mignini is the bigger conspiracy theorist I have even seen!!!! He follows to lunatic ravings of this lady named Gabriella Carlizzi who runs a baseless conspiracy theory website in Italy. I had my doubts in the Amanda Knox case but now that I saw that this was the goon prosecuting the case I know she is innocent. Giuliano Mignini is a complete joke. I would like to have him in America for a min so I could show him what justice is all about!!!
Seriously, this prosecutor is the same one who "prosecuted??? the Monster of Florence case. Please go get the book by Douglas Preston and read what this moron Mignini did in that case. I cannot believe that the people of Italy continue to let this moron represent their country. I thought Italy was a civilized country but when you read and find out about this guys actions in the Monster of Florence case you will be asking yourself if Italy is not as bad and some third world country. I mean it is truly that unbelievable. This guy is a worthless thug, and should be put in jail himself!!
I have been to Italy many times and I will never return! I tell everybody I know to STAY FAR AWAY!! I am dead serious. If this is the kind of people the Italian government lets runs their justice system, then you need to be afraid. Real afraid!!
Stay away from Italy until they come back from the dark ages. Read the Monster of Florence book by Douglas Preston to find out about the craziest justice system in the modern world. It will terrify you to see what type of morons these guys really are!!
Unbelievable!!
Trial of the Century
Italy gears up for the court date of American Amanda Knox, accused of murder. Will justice be served?
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Amanda Knox just spent her second Christmas in Italy's Capanne prison, where officials say she attended a coed mass, sang Italian holiday songs, took dance lessons from the nuns and watched the hit animated movie "Kung Fu Panda." Knox reportedly asked her parents for thermal underwear, flannel sheets, warm socks and a sweater this year.
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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.
Why do we know such mundane details about Knox's life? Because the 21-year-old, blue-eyed Seattle native remains a national obsession in Italy, 14 months since Meredith Kercher, a British student in the Erasmus exchange program, was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in a small rented villa in Perugia. Knox was Kercher's roommate, and she, along with two others, is formally accused of the murder. Her trial, scheduled to begin on Jan. 16, is sure to ignite another orgy of "Foxy Knoxy" coverage in the Italian press and beyond.
Italy is not exactly devoid of newsworthy events. In the past 12 months this country has had a national election, a major garbage crisis and devastating floods. Yet Knox was named one of the top newsmakers of 2008 by countless Italian news organizations, alongside U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and anti-mafia muckraker Roberto Saviano. Important parliamentarians have visited her in prison. Two Italian-language books about Kercher's murder have focused on Knox as the protagonist, one with her angelic face on the cover. The paddy wagon that carries her to the Perugia courthouse for hearings is a magnet for the paparazzi hoping to get a shot through the blackened windows. Salacious details about her life behind bars—whether true or not—fill the tabloid press in both Italy and Britain.
Even her five-minute appearance in a prison art movie, during which she recited the "To be or not to be" speech from Shakespeare's "Hamlet," became the center of a major political row that eventually blocked the film's release. "I am amazed and disappointed at this," says center-right parliamentarian Laura Allegrini, who successfully protested the release of the prison movie. "Amanda Knox has been made out to be some sort of star instead of what she is—a woman accused of a horrendous crime."
Judge Giancarlo Massei will begin to hear evidence on Jan. 16, when Knox and 24-year-old Italian Rafaelle Sollecito go on trial. Another suspect, 21-year-old Rudy Guede, has already been convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison at a fast-track nonjury trial in October for his part in Kercher's murder. Chief prosecutor Giuliano Mignini believes Knox and Sollecito are just as guilty. Both maintain their innocence.
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