Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito's murder case proceedings are still under process. When will this indecisiveness stop in the stand of the Italian court? Are they guilty or are they, behind the camera, suffering from injustice?
Kercher, whom Knox calls 'Maddy', lived with three roommates namely, Laura Mezzetti, Filomena Romanelli and Knox. According to the story revealed by the 20-year old British student, who moved from Coulsdon, London to Perugia, Italy to study, they all went out with their boyfriends for a night party without Kercher.
Subsequently, Knox dished that her time with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who was her boyfriend for 6 days by the time, was spent drastically. On the photographs captured during the night of November 1, 2009, they couple was purportedly spotted kissing outside the cottage. However, this passionate rumored kissing happened after Knox rushed outside to tell her boyfriend she saw her roommate under the mattress, dead and lying on a pool of blood.
In the contrary of the trial, why was the event prior to the kissing scene not deliberated? Was it a long passionate kissing or a boyfriend trying to comfort her girlfriend, and a camera, timely, captured him kissing Knox?
Consequent to the November night murder, Amanda called the police and when the cops arrived, she was the first one the police have seen and without any questions, she, then, became the primary suspect together with her boyfriend.
On the side of Knox, she revealed that the police have been continuously being notorious and evidently, using their power to alter the stories. She stated that she undergone an intensive interrogation between the late and early hours of November 5 and 6, and she was stuttering and was petrified. She told that there were 12 police officers shouting at her forcing her to answer.
In reality, there are instances that humans tend to raise questions but are only yearning for a specific answer. This leads to our mind's behavior rebuffing the declaration.
"In regards to this 'confession' that I made last night, I want to make clear that I'm very doubtful of the verity of my statements because they were made under the pressures of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion. Not only was I told I would be arrested and put in jail for 30 years, but I was also hit in the head when I didn't remember a fact correctly," she reveals.
The murder trial has undergone nearly six years of on and off trial process, with no concrete answers and evidences. Several items on the crime scene showed DNA of an Ivory-coast native, Rudy Guede. Thus, making him convicted to the crime, in which he already admitted. Guede is being imprisoned for 16 years.
Considering Guede's confession, why is that Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox are still the suspects in the eyes of Italian people? Is it theoretically reliable to say that Italy's proceeding process becomes slightly unjustifiable?
"Maddy was killed, was murdered and I always wanted justice for her. I'm not escaping truth. I never escaped. I'm not fleeing from justice. I insist on the truth. I insist after four hopeless years. My innocence, our innocence is true. It deserves to be defended and acknowledged," Amanda Knox tells inside the court back in 2011. Watch the whole video of her statement here.
Meanwhile, there are statements, basing on the DNA samples, saying she was carrying a metal knife (similar to a bread knife or a meat's knife) inside her tote bag. Would it be reasonable to suggest this is true, considering the science behind engineering and mechanics of cutting, which states that a knife would have cut the items inside her bag, or say a scratch, must have been visible on the bag?
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