Comments by "graham johnson" (@TheWchurchill4pm) on "Amanda Knox Opens Up about Harassment | The Scarlet Letter Reports" video.

I hear so many people say Amanda has “made it all about herself.” But Amanda never wanted to be at the center of anything. The police, prosecutors and media made it about Amanda. Instead of seeking justice for Meredith, or telling the world what a wonderful person she was, they created a narrative about Amanda. If Amanda is talking about herself and her experience, it’s because that’s the only perspective she is able to give.
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@Maria she came to your school after her release? Or was it before?
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And she was convicted based on a knife that had been contaminated. The police didn’t even put the knife into an evidence bag, and left it next to other evidence containing both girl’s dna.
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He did the same thing the prosecutors in the West Memphis Three case did. Using the horrible nature of the crime to create a sensationalist narrative. In both cases, the authorities turn the case into a conspiracy theory.
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@Tony Welsh - it’s very subjective to decide whether bruises were caused by being attacked by multiple people or being restrained by a single person
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@Spettro Family - she wrote two recantations - two! - within a day of accusing Patrick Lumumba. That alone should have given police enough reason to let him go. But they were desperate to get somebody, so they kept him in jail. Even after his alibi proved true, they wouldn’t let him go until they had Rudy Guede - that way the news of Guede’s arrest would overshadow the news of Patrick’s release. He should have sued the cops, not Amanda.
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@peterquennellnyc Again, wrong. The first recantation, signed less than one hour after she signed the police-written statement, said she was standing by her accusation but wanted them to know she felt confused and wasn't sure. (That alone should have taken away any legal basis they had for arresting Lumumba but they arrested him anyway because they were desperate) The second recantation, written hours later in a prison cell, after the stress of the coercion had worn off, made it clear that she had imagined that she had seen Patrick at the apartment and that he had definitely NOT been there. (Still, the police held Lumumba in custody) As for "accusing" Raffaele, she put forward that point as a negative: in other words, she said the only way Raffaele could have done it was if things had happened a certain way, but she didn't think they had happened that way. Look at it this way: if I say "They only my wife could have robbed that bank is if she drove to the bank from Starbucks, robbed it, then drove back to Starbucks before I got back from the bathroom," does that mean I am refusing to me my wife's alibi? No, it means I'm saying the idea of her robbing the bank was ludicrous because I wasn't in the bathroom that long.
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@peterquennellnyc Which memorandum is Migini referring to? If he was referring to the second one, the one she gave to Ficarra, then it makes sense that she wouldn't have been hit or given suggestive questions with regards to it.
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@peterquennellnyc those "notes" were a list of names of men who'd visited the apartment, which the police requested from her. There's little doubt that it WAS an interrogation due to the simple fact that they were bugging her phone, which you only do with suspects. They may not have thought she was the killer yet, but they clearly suspected her of being an accomplice. Assistant Prosecutor Manuela Comodi has said it was necessary to arrest Amanda because she could have returned to the US; so the officers were probably desperate to get a statement out of her - even if it required coercive methods. Her lawyers were probably hesitant to actually accuse the police of wrongdoing since you can get sued in Italy for accusing cops of misconduct. Amanda herself was charged with criminal libel because she said in her testimony that Ficarra hit her.
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I wonder if American Crime Story will ever do an installment on the Kercher-Knox case.
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I love her writing. Not just her book, but the articles she wrote for various publications.
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