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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Oh yay! People (the media, etc.) are still ranting about how beautiful Amanda Knox supposedly is (I consider her extremely average) and that she's an All American Girl. I guess this should be a cause for alarm and I should feel sorry for her. I'm still waiting on why I should feel she is nonguilty and why I should feel sorry for her.
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The reason that you should feel "sorry" for Amanda Knox: The prosecutor is under indictment for malfeasance. The evidence was tainted, unreliable testing, and proved nothing because the dna that was on the household knife was the amount that would have been there in everyday usage. There is a guy in jail who said (initially) that he did it, alone.
Conviction of innocent people affects all of us. Simply put: Once that conviction of an innocent person with tainted evidence, an impaired prosecutor, a crooked judge etc. whatever the background of the defendant (sweet/white All American, immigrant from Tangiers, African American, WASP businessman etc.) is made acceptable we are all vulnerable. We can't undo the past of people who are dead, but we can secure the future where people are (more) assured of a fair trial with evidence that is true.