re: Amanda Knox returns to Italy for the first time & breaks down as she relives murder trial

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They tried to bring murder charges to scientists who didn’t predict an earthquake

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The Italians are insane.

It took 13 years after Senna's death to settle the criminal legal case. Accident deaths at professional race events never lead to criminal charges... except in Italy.

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/4xjj4n/the-death-of-ayrton-senna-and-the-long-search-for-blame

At least read the last paragraph of my excerpts from the article:

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On 1 May 1994, Ayrton Senna veered off the track at the Imola circuit and into the crash barriers.

It would eventually emerge that Senna's steering column had been identified as a potential cause for the crash... it had been extended by welding and reinforcing additional length to the existing column. This work was carried out with the approval of Williams director of engineering Patrick Head, and the team's chief designer Adrian Newey. It was this that led to team boss Frank Williams, as well as Head and Newey, all being charged with manslaughter. So too were three race organisers. If convicted, Williams and his colleagues faced anything from a two-year suspended sentence to a seven-year jail term.

The emphasis now shifted almost entirely to Head and Newey, with state prosecutor Maurizio Passarini recommending that Frank Williams and the three race officials be cleared of the charges.

On 16 December 1997, Williams, Head and Newey were acquitted of the charges. The race organiser, circuit manager and race director Roland Bruynseraede were also exonerated.

...prosecutors continued to push for one-year suspended sentences for Head and Newey. A retrial was ordered... On 22 November 1999, an appeals court upheld the original verdict; once again, no blame could be apportioned.

The trial continued to drag on, however, with the possibility of a return to the courtroom seeming to crop up every few months in the motorsport press. The pace of progress was glacial; it was not until April 2002 that Italian police finally returned Senna's car to the Williams team, by which time it was in an advanced state of deterioration. Unable to learn much from the old chassis, they had it destroyed soon after.

Hopes that this was the end of the story were scuppered in January 2003 when the Italian Supreme Court reopened the case once more, citing "material errors" in the original process. In May 2005, more than 11 years after Senna's death, Newey was finally fully acquitted.

Head, however, was ruled to be responsible for the faulty steering column, but the case had timed out under Italy's statute of limitations. This is set at seven years and six months, while the eventual verdict came in 2007. It concluded: "... the accident was caused by a steering-column failure. This failure was caused by badly designed and badly executed modifications. The responsibility of this falls on Patrick Head, culpable of omitted control."

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After 13 years they found Patrick Head "responsible" for Senna's death, even though the statute of limitations for the charge ran out after 7.5 years. So why did they continue the case? How convenient of them to find someone to blame and then say they can't do anything about it. If someone had gone to jail for an auto racing accident, that would have been the end of F1 in Italy, the home of Ferrari, and possibly the end of any international racing series visiting Italy.

What a joke of a legal system they have there.

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in the northern Italian city of Modena

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Wonder if she cried when she couldn’t eat dinner at Osteria Francescana without a reservation.

With the herpes

So, you believe the theory that she found a homeless drifter in the streets and had an orgy with him and her boyfriend and then they all three killed her roommate?

Makes complete sense.

No I think she killed her roommate for some other reason. Perhaps she and her BF thought it would be more exciting than sex. Or maybe the BF had a thing for the roommate which made Knoxy jealous.

I tend to think it was a thrill killing though. She is a psycho. You can see it in her eyes and hear it in her interviews. She is one arrogant count. Fine as hell but still a PoS.

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With the herpes

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She’s had a lot of dirty cocks in her

If I were her, I would stay as far away from Italy as possible.

I'm on the side that she's nothing like what she's been portrayed. She may be a little loose with her moral decisions, but she's no sex crazed, orgy loving nymphomaniac.
You do realize that it was the Italians that made up the story she had AIDS to mess with her mind while she was in prison.
I wouldn't be surprised if the origin of her promiscuous personality came from the Italians,too.

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AUstar

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does the tin foil hat still itch or are you used to it by this point?