Amanda Knox’s Trial Started Today
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito’s murder trial for Meredith Kercher began today in a Perugia courtroom. New reports are saying that the media has descended upon the beautiful, picturesque town in droves to cover a trial that could last for up to a year.
I read the news and found some interesting tidbits. I never knew that Knox had been arrested before. Did you?
[BBC.com] Reporters descended on Amanda’s home city of Seattle in search of more details of her private life.
They discovered that the Washington University student had been arrested and fined in 2007 for her role in a drunken party that police were called to.
A picture began to be painted of a “party girl” who abused drink and drugs and had an active sex life.
The Guardian.co.uk displays a photo of Knox in the courtroom earlier today, and I find that photo as well as the one of Knox with Sollecito the day of Kercher’s body discovery fascinating.
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If you were facing trial for murder, for a murder you did not commit, and it was the first day you appeared in court as the world peered on with countless reporters all glaring at you, would you be relaxed and comfortable enough to smile casually? Knox’s face in this photo looks notably relaxed to me.
[Guardian.co.uk] A smiling Amanda Knox walked into a frescoed underground Italian courtroom this morning at the start of her trial for the murder of her British fellow-student Meredith Kercher.
Dressed in jeans, a grey, black and white striped top and grey hooded tracksuit jacket, she chatted in a seemingly relaxed way with her lawyers.
Is Knox that naive to believe she will walk free without a worry? Her character, her behavior and her actions to date certainly don’t support she is a person who is naive. She certainly didn’t live a sheltered existance — especially after spending a year in a foreign prison.
Why doesn’t she have an ounce of worry? Most innocent people in her shoes would be shaking in their boots, panicked, worried, or fearful of what the outcome will be. Is Knox arrogant enough to think she will get off without a hitch, is she that emotionally detached, or self-delusional? This photo begs us to ask why.
Also, the day that Meredith Kercher’s body was found, I found Knox’s behavior interesting as well. If you are completely innocent and uninvolved in the murder of your flatmate, wouldn’t you be rattled to the core that a murderer came within footsteps of where you co-habitated?
Wouldn’t you feel fear that this murderer is still lurking out there that morning when the body was found, and that they could still be watching you? Wouldn’t you fear that you could be the next victim?
Yet when we watch Knox and Sollecito kiss and interact that day, we see none of these emotions. It’s absolutely perplexing! They seem to have no fear, which is very abnormal. There seems to be no stress in their faces whatsoever. Did they know they didn’t have to worry?
Ever since I heard that Knox said that she was in the flat that night [my post November 9, 2007], and that she heard a scream, but was scared so she covered her ears, my alarm bells went off on high.
No one hears a blood curdling scream, and doesn’t know the source, but covers their ears. As humans, when we hear a threatening noise, albeit a scream, a loud bang or thud, we don’t just decide to cover our ears without knowing what is going on. Our natural, biological response is to investigate the noise. It’s a protective measure we all have within us, an instinct for survival, because that noise could ultimately be warning that we, too, are in danger.
We only cover our ears when we know what is going on, but don’t want to listen to the wretched noise before us. This statement shows that Amanda had some awareness of what was going on when Kercher screamed. To me, that is bone-chilling. I don’t think Knox lied about this bit of information. I suspect she was there and she did hear a scream, and perhaps she did cover her ears, but I believe she knew what was going on. It’s too strange of a lie to come up with if she wasn’t there or wasn’t in some way involved. She just changed the details, and those details give her away.
Do I think Knox killed Kercher? I have no clue, but I do see enough that makes me question that Knox has not been honest with us, and at a minimum she didn’t help a roommate who she knew was being violated in one form or another. Instead, it appears from what she says, she stood by and listened, and turned her cold back to a person in desperate need of help.
