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Former UW student Amanda Knox has become a subject of endless worldwide fascination because, as Rick Anderson noted, she's 1) involved in a murder case, 2) that involves sex, and she is 3) pretty, and 4) white.
Knox is "spontaneous, immediate and imprudent"... but not enough to kill?Maybe we're all a little burned out from the Maurice Clemmons coverage. But there are other alleged murderers in the world, one being UW student Amanda Knox, whose trial in Perugia, Italy is entering final arguments this ... More >>
Bad girl or bad rap? The jury will soon decide.The BBC and Daily Mail are reporting all the latest dirt from the murder trial of UW student Amanda Knox in Perugia, Italy. The jury is expected to begin deliberations on Friday, meaning a possible verdict next week. As a state-owned media chann ... More >>
Beatles fan Amanda Knox still can't get a fair shake from the Brits.Reader Jolly Roger responds to More Dirty Linen From the Amanda Knox Trial. According to him, if an Italian jury finds Knox guilty it'll be the fault of the British press. "If Amanda Knox is found guilty of murdering Meredit ... More >>
Fluent in Italian, yet trembling in her defense. Now the jury will decide Knox's fate.Accused murderer Amanda Knox made a direct plea to the jury yesterday in her Perugia, Italy trial for the 2007 murder of fellow foreign exchange student Meredith Kercher. Is the 22-year-old Seattle native gu ... More >>
Knox was depicted as a sex-crazed American by Italian prosecutors.UPDATE: The P-I's Andrea Vogt reports that Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison. Amanda Knox, the 22-year-old Seattle native charged with murdering her roommate, was found guilty today by an Italian jury. After deliberatin ... More >>
Or a fantastic appeals attorneySpeaking on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanaopoulos, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confessed that, unlike the rest of the world's populace, she had not in fact been waiting breathlessly for the verdict in the Amanda Knox trial. The former UW s ... More >>
If Italy won't give Amanda Knox a fair trial, then it's time to take matters into our own hands.Amanda Knox is in a pickle. Convicted on Friday of the murder of her British roommate, the 22-year-old University of Washington student now faces 26 years in an Italian jail. Whether Knox is reall ... More >>
America also has a long history of locking up innocents.Reader Ignorance responds to Amanda Knox Defender Asks: Where's the Science Behind Evidence of "Strange" Behavior? "Cops coerce people into saying things they don't want to say all the time. Amanda Knox was a young girl in a foreign cou ... More >>
Just because Amanda Knox is in an Italian jail cell doesn't mean Seattle shouldn't have a Perugia Park.The timing is terrible. That we can all agree on. A month after an Italian jury found University of Washington student Amanda Knox guilty of the murder of her British roommate, the Seattle ... More >>
Knox points to what got her into more trouble with Italian authorities.Today's blogs were carefully culled under strict observation of defamation law. - Seattle 911 says that Amanda Knox faces more trouble in the Italian courts. This time she's being accused of slander for saying police beat ... More >>
"Didya hear the one about the crooked Italian justice system?"Will Rogers famously said that everything is funny as long as it's happening to somebody else. Which is why there's one subject that is seriously off-limits tonight at the Comedy Underground. According to UW's The Daily, Amanda Kn ... More >>
Amanda's Knox's lawyer says new witnesses have come forward.A lawyer for Amanda Knox says a 200-page appeal filed in Italy over the weekend includes new evidence pointing to his client's innocence. In an appearance on ABC's Good Morning America this morning, Philadelphia lawyer Ted Simon says ... More >>
Updated: Heavey agrees he violated the code of ethics and has been admonished, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct announced today. More below. It might have been ok for citizen Mike Heavey to write letters in support of now-convicted Seattle killer Amanda Knox in Italy and talk publicl ... More >>
Two years ago Amanda Knox's parents recounted for a British newspaper how Italian interrogators had hit and pressured their daughter her in order to produce a confession. Because repeating what someone else says is a punishable offense in Italy -- and because the country is extra-sensitive af ... More >>
Amanda Knox has allegedly told an Italian lawmaker that she hopes to adopt after she's been released from jail. The University of Washington student convicted of murdering her British roommate is only 23, and lots of 23-year-olds don't end up doing what they say they're going to do. But takin ... More >>
Hey everyone, it's that thing you never asked for and will now avoid as best you can: a Lifetime made-for-TV movie about the Amanda Knox case! Hayden Panettiere, she of cheerleader fame on "Heroes" and nothing much since then, will play Foxy Knoxy in the movie scheduled to air next year. Ther ... More >>
Amanda Knox just can't seem to catch a break. Nearly a year after questionable evidence helped convict her in an Italian court of murdering British student Meredith Kercher, she's now facing new charges that she slandered police by testifying that they beat and coerced her into confession. Th ... More >>
In the three years since her original murder trial/media circus, Amanda Knox's demeanor seems to have changed. Gone, it seems, are the "All You Need Is Love" T-shirts and cute courtroom smiles. As her appeals trial begins tomorrow in Perugia, Italy, her lawyers tell the AP that she's now "bro ... More >>
Speaking of screen adaptations of recent murder cases, the new Lifetime film centered on former UW student and dubiously convicted killer Amanda Knox is enjoying none of the anticipation that celebrity dog trainer Mark Stover's 48 Hours special is--at least not from the families of those invo ... More >>
Millions of people already hate the new Amanda Knox movie. Most of them, however, will still be watching it when it airs tonight.
Whatever questions remained as to the kind of character that would come out in Lifetime's film Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy, it didn't take long to answer them when the movie aired for the first time last night. Knox, as played by Hayden Panettiere, is self-absorbed, cold, drug-addle ... More >>
When Amanda Knox was meeting with her parents in Italy following her arrest on charges of murdering Meredith Kercher, she told them "I was there" on the night of the murder. That's according to a new document released by a judge panel in Rome.
Over the line!Up there with ice hockey and kayaking, bowling is high on the list of games that Amanda Knox cannot play in prison. But that doesn't mean that you can't! In fact, on March 20 you can come to West Seattle Bowl, pay $125, and pretend the pins are all those shady lawyers, corrupt p ... More >>
This week I learned that there is apparently a word which Amanda Knox supporters use to describe people who think she's guilty of murder. It's called "Guilters." Like 9/11 "Truthers" or Obama "Birthers," it seems that even a single criminal case can earn the "ers" conspiracy suffix these days ... More >>
There is no Wikipedia page for Amanda Knox. There is a page for the "Murder of Meredith Kercher," but Knox supporters claim it's chock-full of misinformation and bias. And after a well-placed letter caught the eye of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, the article-editing minions and Wales himself ... More >>
It was a lynchpin in the case that convicted Seattle native Amanda Knox of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. DNA evidence found on the knife that prosecutors say was used to brutally stab Kercher to death was linked back to Knox. But now, deep into her all-impo ... More >>
Giuliano Mignini does not like when people say mean things about him or nice things about Amanda Knox. This is an assertion shared by dozens of journalists that have covered Knox's murder and appeals trial over the last two-plus years. And now it's an assertion shared by the largest journalis ... More >>
Several factors are important for students when determining a proper location to study abroad. There's the foreign language requirement, the amount of nightlife opportunities, the prestige of the school itself, and, of course, whether the national media and local law enforcement will create a ... More >>
The public opinion tide in Italy appears to be changing in Amanda Knox's favor. After positive developments in the Seattle woman's appeals trial including DNA evidence that has been labeled too minute to test and a key witness being caught flubbing details while being outed as a dope dealer, ... More >>
Add King County Superior Court Judge Michael Heavey to the list of people who think that Amanda Knox's conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher is a sham. In fact, not only does Heavey think Knox was wrongfully convicted, he thinks the U.S. State Department utterly failed in its mission ... More >>
Mario Alessi was one of three inmates who testified to Amanda Knox's innocence. As Amanda Knox's appeals trial hits its fever pitch, more and more of the case against her appears to be unraveling. At a hearing on Friday, cellmates of Rudy Guede, the first person convicted for the murder of Br ... More >>
Accidental ingenue.It's not new detail, but there is a fresh take in the current Rolling Stone on the Amanda Knox conviction--which is on appeal and during which today court-appointed experts said some of the DNA evidence used to convict her may have been contaminated, a major breakthrough ha ... More >>
The legal landscape has changed much in the months since Seattle student turned dubiously convicted killer Amanda Knox began her appeal trial in Perugia, Italy, for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Previous witnesses have been discredited, new witnesses have offered conflicting accounts, and ... More >>
In a small courtroom in Perugia, Italy, today, two forensic scientists are expected to swear in and explain how facts prove that the DNA work of another scientist--work that led to the murder convictions of Seattle exchange student Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito--is absolute ... More >>
In the weeks before Seattle student Amanda Knox was convicted of murder in Perugia, Italy, Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini was more than happy to leak info to the press and use the tabloid craze that followed as a weapon in court. But now that the media's tune has changed to casting dou ... More >>
Keeping track of all the ways in which Italian police and forensic scientists have botched the investigation into British student Meredith Kercher's death is difficult, because there are simply so many examples of negligence. Fortunately, the folks at injusticeinperugia.org--easily to most c ... More >>
Amanda Knox has been called many things as her epoch murder trial has twisted and turned through the Italian courts. But yesterday beat all as a lawyer labeled her a "she-devil" and "witch." With that, Knox became a prime candidate to become a feminist icon.
It was the outcome that the Knox family--and indeed most of Seattle and a lot of the world--had prayed for.
In the world's most-watched verdict since the Casey Anthony trial, Amanda Knox was exonerated today. But not according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail, which apparently made a major flub by posting a story that said Knox was found guilty. It included details that could not possibly have happened, ... More >>
Why calling a woman a "witch" is a call to arms.
The only charge that the Italian appeals court held up after Amanda Knox's murder conviction was overturned was the crime of defamation stemming from when Knox falsely accused bar owner Patrick Lumumba of being the murderer who killed Meredith Kercher. For that Knox was sentenced to three yea ... More >>
In today's edition of U.K.'s The Telegraph, Cristina Odone writes about the vastly different ways the Amanda Knox case has been perceived in the States and abroad. While Americans celebrated Knox's acquittal, Odone writes, Italians outside the courtroom 'booed and heckled, shouting "Give us A ... More >>
Image SourceAmanda Knox has a musical admirerWafeek is a Los Angeles emcee with a hilariously dirty mind. A few years back, he released The Aristocrats Mixtape, a reference to the legendary joke retold by sick-minded comedians the world over. One of the tracks on the album is titled "Die Back ... More >>
Vivid Entertainment, the company that's brought you such timeless films as Kimberly Kane's Been Black Maled and Savanna's Anal Gangbang, is in the market for a new spokesperson. Company president Steve Hirsch's first choice: Amanda Knox.
Did the recent emancipation of Amanda Knox make you so angry that you could stab someone? Or perhaps the ruling thrilled you such that you baked a delicious cake in celebration? Italian tabloid Oggi has you covered either way.
Fresh from accidentally publishing, then deleting, an incorrect story about Amanda Knox being found guilty on appeal, scummy British tabloid Daily Mail is back to their niche of circling the journalistic drain.
Two pieces of Amanda Knox-related news to report this morning--one more gosspiy than the other.
Not to be outdone by her former beau's book deal, emancipated murder suspect Amanda Knox has inked her own deal--hers with an agent who has helped usher in books from some of the most famous people in the world.
For about 30 minutes on Oct. 3, British tabloid Daily Mail carried an utterly fictitious article, headlined "Guilty: Amanda Knox looks stunned as appeal against murder conviction is rejected." That 30 minutes was enough for Seattle Weekly's own Jon Walczak to notice and call the paper out. An ... More >>
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