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As I prepare to teach in Italy next summer, here's a short list of items that students should know before leaving the States to their study abroad country.
Under our law, if there is a reasonable hypothesis of innocence in a circumstantial case, the defendant must be acquitted. That is our law, and it is the result achieved by Knox and her team.
Even if Nafissatou Diallo gets millions for her ordeal, the truth of what actually happened in that Sofitel hotel room will still not be known. And that is the one thing I find maddening about the justice system whether it's here or in Italy, where Amanda Knox was just exonerated.
If Knox were homely, or modest, or male, she'd probably never have been charged to begin with -- or freed.
In a few days, Amanda Knox will either be set free or ordered to remain in jail, from where she will most certainly file another, final appeal against her murder conviction.
I don't know if Amanda Knox is innocent, but I'm pretty sure she's not guilty. So here's a playlist for a young woman who appears to have been caught up in an Italian legal system that makes our own imperfect system look a hell of a lot better.
The Shroud of Turin is only the most famous product of a thriving trade in alleged Biblical relics in the Holy Land, which today is a million-dollar business "verified" through the scientific lens of archaeology.
Not too long ago, Amanda Knox, convicted the other day in Italy of murdering her junior-year-abroad roommate, Meredith Kercher, was "Foxy Knoxy." Now ...
Has the US media found itself a new sense of propriety and moral center, or is it just out of it? Too depressed about its future and uncertain of its function to follow even the scent of blood and sex?
