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Originally Posted by ASUADPi
All the "evidence" against her was completely circumstancial, that any good defense attorney could stab a whole through.
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Without getting to the issue of whether Amanda Knox was properly convicted or not, I'll just note that in the vast majority of cases, all of the evidence is circumstantial. Circumstantial =/= bad or weak.
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Originally Posted by federico
Well, then try to rember that the idea of "legal system" itself was created in rome (a lots of legal terms are still in latin) and be thankful to our fathers too.
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And you can try to remember that the American legal system was based on the English legal system, and the English legal system, for the most part, was
not based on the Roman legal system, the use of Latin notwithstanding.