Kristi King

Texas Wesleyan University

Intro Criminal Justice Fall 2011

Blog Comment: Amanda Knox Exoneration

I do not think that the injustices in this case, have so much to do with the ineffectiveness of the Italian criminal

justice system, but more in the prosecutor alone. If it were not for the automatic appeal given to convicted

murderers in Italy, then freedom may never have been a reality for Amanda Knox. If convicted in the United States,

provided it was not a capital crime, then she, like so many others who claim wrongful convictions, would be

fighting for an appeal. From the beginning, it was apparent to me, that the prosecutor developed his theory of sex

and sadomasochism as a reaction formation to his own unwanted sexual desire for Miss Knox. To put it lightly, he

was nuttier than squirrel turds. Thank God, for the normal human beings who were able to filter-out the garbage

presented about her, and come to the proper conclusion, which was to set her free.