So a scummy murderess gets off scot free

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I haven't been this disgusted at my country since 1982, when we betrayed Britain over the Falklands. (The British won, too, which means that Italy got nothing for its betrayal of an ally except shame and disgrace. But then Italians are like that: they are always at their most stupid when they think they are being crafty.) The Meredith Kercher murder was one of the most squalid and cruel events in recent memory, and the guilt of Knox and Sollecito was obvious to anyone who could read. So that is how you get off with murder: be pretty, have a shameless and prosperous family who sets up a media circus on your behalf among gullible American hacks, and manage to look pathetic every time you are on screen. Then evidence be damned. Well, the need for wide structural reform of Italian justice has been cryingly obvious for decades, but this proves once and for all that a moral reformation is even more desperately needed. Nobody who took their oath to justice seriously for two minutes could ever have released such a sentence. When the Supreme Court hears the inevitable prosecution appeal and finds Knox guilty as they have to, she and her accomplices will be mocking at us from her bolthole across the ocean. And her victim can rest in her grave - abused, forgotten and unavenged.

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Lawrence Auster vs Ann Coulter

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Auster at view from the right

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/020638.html

has an interesting discussion / debate about the case vis-a-vis Ann Coulter. He's an "innocentista". Perhaps you should go there and duke it out. And I must say, he makes a better (less emotional) case for the twosome's innocence than you do for their guilt.

Auster asks an interesting question:

"Another point: if the case is on the up and up, why did the prosecutors in the appeals trial demand that the Knox and Sollecito, after having already spent four years in prison, serve several months in solitary confinement? Doesn't that suggest some kind of out of control vindictiveness on the prosecutors' part?"

You say this: "and the guilt of Knox and Sollecito was obvious to anyone who could read" but that only makes you lose credibility as a commentator. You take for granted what needs to be proved.

By comparison, yours is merely an emotional outburst.

Re: Lawrence Auster vs Ann Coulter

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Auster's, on the other hand, is simply ignorant. As I already explained to saturndevouring, above, in Italian practice a trial is not over till the last appeal. The prosecutors were perfectly aware that if they let the murderous scum go now, they might as well kiss the case goodbye; she'd be on the next flight to Seattle - as she punctually was - and from then on, there would have been no chance of getting her back short of sending an undercover squad and kidnapping her.

I have some experience of Auster. He is worse than Coulter; for one thing, he is an out and out racist, which I don't think Coulter is.

Re: Lawrence Auster vs Ann Coulter

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Re: Lawrence Auster vs Ann Coulter

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Ciao Fabio and thanks for answering. I'd like to trouble you for an answer / opinion concerning that question Auster raised. Why do you suppose that PM Mignini asked for la Knox and Sollecito to be locked up in solitary?

This is the man we're talking about:

http://www.corriere.it/cronache/10_gennaio_22/mostro-firenze-giuttari-mignini_8d07606e-075a-11df-8946-00144f02aabe.shtml

IN ENGLISH

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6999196.ece

"Abuse of office"

Why would he ask - along with a life sentence - also for 9 months of "daylight solitary confinement." The girl had behaved very well in the slammer. What's the accanimento? How do you see it?