Amanda Knox Back in Italy

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Story here. I’m surprised she would want to go back there, or anywhere near there, under any circumstances.
 
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Why? Shouldn’t she just stay home?

While I have no idea what really happened, there should be a book about travel to tell people if they get arrested in foreign countries, please refrain from doing cartwheels in the police station.
 
Italy’s gorgeous, and she was there studying in the first place because she liked it there, and probably if she’s appearing as a guest of this Innocence Project, she feels protected well enough to visit.

While I don’t think Amanda Knox has the greatest judgment overall, a free trip to Italy would be hard to turn down.
 
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Why? Shouldn’t she just stay home?

While I have no idea what really happened, there should be a book about travel to tell people if they get arrested in foreign countries, please refrain from doing cartwheels in the police station.
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Because whichever way you look at her experience, she had a bad experience there and I would think revisiting would therefore summon up a lot of bad memories and risk traumatizing her. Plus a lot of Italians probably regard her as guilty, rightly or wrongly, and I would be afraid of being in a confrontation with some of these people.
 
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I was an exchange student myself and can hardly imagine being in the center of a protracted criminal case and tabloid feeding frenzy while in my host country. And being just a kid essentially during the whole process. It boggles my mind.
 
She seemed to enjoy the publicity, but has manaed to stay out of the limelight for a few years.
 
Indeed, and the very fact that she’s going back there to participate in a conference suggests to me that she still enjoys the publicity.
 
She might also think, or have been convinced by the organizers, that it’s important to support the Italian Innocence Project in their efforts so that wrongful convictions like hers don’t happen to other people.

If the justice system in Italy is that bad, then I’m sure there’s other wrongly convicted people, and having her appear will bring a lot of attention to the Project’s cause.
 
A man named Rudy Guede was convicted along with Amanda and her boyfriend Raffaele. He hasn’t had his conviction overturned.
 
Her boyfriend was convicted? I did not remember that. Was Rudy Guede an immigrant from Africa? I don’t remember very much about the case.
 
Rudy Guede had been brought to Italy when he was a child and then as a teen he was adopted by some wealthy Italian family. But then within a couple years they asked him to leave their home. He had a past record of breaking and entering, burglary and threatening people with knives. He also left a bloody palm print at the scene. He knew the young men who lived in the downstairs apartment from where the murder took place and he had previously been found in their apartment passed out in the bathroom when he wasn’t supposed to be there. Evidence showed he could have either broken in to Meredith Kircher’s apartment, or gotten in through a door that didn’t lock properly. Seems pretty clear to me that he did it.
 
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