Amanda Knox’s Slander Trial Moved to Florence

Actually, Steve, Knox was acquitted under the most favorable interpretation of Italian law — for not having committed the crime. In the case of the “staged” burglary, the court ruled her innocent because the crime itself did not exist. There is no evidence that places her anywhere near the crime scene and the real killer, Rudy Guede, is currently serving his sentence for the murder. So Knox is indeed legally and factually innocent.

Well, Steve. If you are privy to some damaging information, then by all means, come forward with it. Otherwise, your opinion is just that–opinion. It was the drifter, Guede, who implicated Knox and Sollecito and got just 16 years while they got 26. Guede was the killer.

Hi Nikki. When are you going to detail for us how you furnished complementary airline tickets, gourmet meals and luxury hotel rooms to the Knox entourage during the trial? What was the final tab? Was it more than the $200,000 your network gave to another female murderer’s family? You are disgusting.

There’s no point in even trying to correct you, since you are not a reality-based person. But for the benefit of others: (1) Prosecutor Mignini is not one of the civil plaintiffs in this slander case, which include about half a dozen police officers and an interpreter. (2) It won’t be hard to prove that Knox has a history of lying under pressure, since an appeals court has already ruled this is true. (3) Knox admits she was treated well by police until the disputed two-hour period beginning shortly before midnight on November 5, 2007. The so-called “50 hours of interrogation” includes all the time during which she was waiting around and touring the crime scene with other housemates. (4) Knox never made a statement during the interrogation that she had a “vision”. Never used that word. Look it up. Since there is no such statement it cannot have been ruled inadmissible by any court. (5) “Local drifter” is an oxymoron, as well as being factually incorrect. Guede was a Perugia native and had lived there, most recently, longer than Knox. (6) Mignini was NOT convicted of abuse of office. He was acquitted of that charge, and on appeal the entire case against him was thrown out on technical grounds. (7) Why shouldn’t Mignini have continued to work while his illegal wiretapping case was under appeal? Knox’s murder case is under appeal and yet the media have no reservations about paying her millions of dollars.

WCG1989: (1) The letter you are referring to was not part of the interrogation and was never ruled inadmissible by the Supreme Court. (2) No tape of the interrogation doesn’t give Knox blanket immunitiy to make defamatory allegations. A court must hear from the witnesses and determine who is more credible. It will consider her history and her motive to make a false accusation. Italian courts are much more favorable to plaintiffs in defamation cases than they are in the U.S. It’s a serious matter.

The article is wrong, Mignini was not there. The Police is making allegations against Amanda Knox, Mignini is a State Prosecutor, independent from the Police. Amanda could not have been pressured by Mgnini who did not say anything when she made her declaration.

BR Mull, I’m afraid you grossly underestimate the seriousness of the Abuse of Office charges against Mignini. Remember that he is a public official with the responsibility of protecting us, but instead he has proven himself the very kind of person we need protection from. Law enforcers should not be allowed to charge anyone they want with anything they want, with no regard for the truth (like he does).

As far as Mignini’s acquittal is concerned, that hasn’t happened yet and I hope it never does. He was merely given a retrial because one of his victims was among the jury that convicted him before… but even with an impartial jury, he’s not likely to win, especially given that he continues to use the same gestapo-like practices that got him into trouble in the first place.

Although it could be argued that his continuing abuse is as much the courts’ fault for allowing it. Couldn’t they at least suspend him? Then, once his trials are complete, they can either restore him to office or forbid him to practice law enforcement ever again… and I hope the latter happens because as long as he is in power nobody in Perugia is safe.

On the other hand, with an imagination like his, he’d make a very good scriptwriter for a movie… as long as he doesn’t try to pass it off as non-fiction. His grasp on the truth is highly questionable.

Dr Mull, why don’t you admit that you’re unhealthily obsessed with vilifying Amanda Knox?

For a man with a history of assault, suspended from his work as a result, are you subliminally trying to ensure that you’ll never be trusted in your profession again?

Maybe Mignini will give you a job, hunting down his detractors.

Elizabeth, it is not true that Amanda’s boyfriend withdrew her alibi. The police falsely represented his actual statement to her as if he had withdrawn it.

Mignini was in fact convicted of abuse of office. On appeal the proceedings were moved to a new jurisdiction, and nothing has been heard since.

Richard he has not been convicted so stop repeating this error. He was not present when she made her spontaneous statement, the author needs to correct her mistakes.

The conviction was overturned, if a new case is not filed in Turin and to date it hasn’t been then there is nothing to mislead people about.

Why isn’t there a link to report offensive/libelous comments?

Don’t forget all the journalists Mignini has been harassing, too. They’re all being sued for slander too.

Miranda: No, you are completely wrong. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito had nothing whatsoever to do with the brutal sexual assault and murder of Meredith Kercher. Rudy Guede killed Ms Kercher, got 30 years in prison and then, thanks to your buddy Mignini , got his sentence cut in half so he will be back on the street in just a few short years to potentially rape and murder someone’s else’s daughter. It seems to me that should concern you a bit more than perceived insults to bmull or Mignini!

Amanda should have said she was Palestinian Terrorist. Italy would have let her go. (Achille Lauro)

Brmull has been making accusations and claims for years, but fails to provide any evidence for them.

1) Mull claims Mignini isn’t part of the defamation suit yet the judge who changed the venue seems to think he is. Perhaps Mull needs to inform him?

2) The appeals court upheld the slander conviction against Lumumba but Judge Hellman made it very clear that it was done “in a situation of considerable psychological pressure (to call it stress seems an understatement” and that “it is understandable that Amanda Knox, yielding to pressure and fatigue, would have hoped to put an end to that situation by giving her interrogators that which, in the end, they wanted to hear: a name, a murderer.”

3) At least brmull admits now that there actually were 50 hours of interrogation. Most colpevisti claim she only made her statements after a couple hours, totally ignoring the cumulative exhaustion of those 50 hours in 4 days that contributed to her statemnents of Nov 6.

4) Mull is splitting hairs when he says Knox didn’t say she had a “vision”. Knox wrote ” In my mind I saw Patrik in flashes of blurred images,” and ” these things seem unreal to me, like a dream, and I am unsure if they are real things that happened or are just dreams my head has made to try to answer the questions in my head and the questions I am being asked.” What is a vision if not something one sees in one’s mind or is more like a dream than reality?

The statements the POLICE wrote in ITALIAN and had Knox (who spoke only rudimentary Italian) sign were derived from what she had said above. Those statements were ruled inadmissable because she was denied a lawyer. Of course, the interrogation was not recorded as required by law, either…even though the police had recorded her for the last 3 days, including in the police station.Curious, no?

6) Mignini WAS CONVICTED of abuse of office. It was only overturned, not because he was acqutted of the charges, but because of a jurisdictional technicality. The case was sent to the proper jurisdiction to review for retrial.

7) Mull apparently doesn’t understand the difference between a man already convicted of abuse of office (and only under appeal) continuing to prosecute a murder trial and a woman already acquitted being paid for a book about the crime.

Interesting new development: According to Italian newspapers yesterday, at least two of the cops who are plaintiffs accusing Knox of slander are themselves under investigation for abuse of their powers in an unrelated but serious case of witness harrassment/intimidation.

Maybe it’s not so surprising that the judge in Knox’s slander trial agreed that Perugia wasn’t an appropriate venue and decided to move it elsewhere.

Mignini has been cleared Andrea Voght tweets today Thanks Andrea for accurate reporting!

What Vogt is twittering about is that the SC has confirmed the change of venue to Turin, where the case against Mignini for illegal wiretapping will now need to be started again from the beginning. It voids the charges that we have been talking about earlier in the thread, but it is not an acquittal because the case can be reopened in Turin.

@ RIKARD ETTBERG

Thanks for clarifying that regarding Mignini’s trial. I searched unsuccessfully for anything on the internet about it. I will be following the case.

I was amused by ELIZABETH’s claim that Mignini was “cleared” and how she thanked Vogt for “accurate reporting”! There was nothing “accurate” about her twitter as it didn’t even make sense. Charges are not “inadmissible” or “admissable”.

The way she right after the crime and the way she was behaving as Meredith’s roommate (e.g. all those signs of borderline personality disorder – the drug-fueled nights with her boyfriend, the explicit stories she wrote, the bloody tampons and vibrator she left out in the bathroom, the cartwheels she did at the police station, and the fact that she TOOK A SHOWER IN A BLOODY BATHROOM) point to a seriously disturbed woman. It all seems too fishy for her to be “innocent.”

It’s too bad the Italian legal system botched the prosecution.

Regarding Dr. Brendan Mull, no one is defaming him. The information is online, courtesy of the Medical Board, California USA. It’s not liablous to point out things that are fact, and that are very much in the public domain. I think it is valid to note that this man ‘may’ have an issue with women, and that he therefore shouldn’t necessarily be making nasty comments aobut Amanda Knox. To his credit, he is not attempting to hide his identity. That does make him less of a coward than most of the nasties who post vitriolic comments behind the safety of their fake ID’s in cyberspace!