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More PR propaganda: “Freeing ‘Foxy Knoxy’: Why People Are So Obsessed with Amanda Knox”

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Meredith Kercher

 

Over and over writers are getting the facts wrong about the murder of Meredith Kercher case.  The latest pack of lies is courtesy of Kate Leaver  She wrote an article titled, “Freeing ‘Foxy Knoxy’: Why People Are So Obsessed with Amanda Knox”
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Below is a list of the mistakes she made:

“Knox and Sollecito spent nearly four years in jail in Italy, before their release in 2011 and exoneration by the Supreme Court of Italy in 2015”

Wrong. Knox and Sollecito were acquitted due to insufficient evidence, they were not found innocent of the crime and Knox’s conviction for calunnia was upheld by the Italian Supreme Court.  Knox owes Lumumba 10,000 euros in damages which she refuses to pay.

The Italian Supreme Court states in its final verdict that they were forced to acquit Knox and Sollecito because of investigative errors:

“Therefore the use of logic and intuition cannot compensate for shortfalls in
proofs or investigative inefficiency. In the face of a missing, insufficient or contradictory proof,the judge must limit himself to accepting that and deliver an acquittal sentence, according to  article 530, chapter 2, of the code of criminal procedure, even if driven by an authentic moral conviction of the guilt of the accused [Knox and Sollecito].”

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