Knox, 36, hoped to overturn conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering British student Meredith Kercher
A Florence court has upheld a slander conviction against Amanda Knox for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher.
The American, 36, had asked for the conviction to be dropped, saying she had returned to Italy in the hope of “clearing my name once and for all of the false charges against me”.
She cried when the sentence was read on Wednesday and told her lawyers: “I didn’t expect it, I’m very disappointed,” the Italian news agency Ansa reported.
This illustrates the importance of going full “shut the fuck up Friday”-mode when being interrogated by police. Name, date of birth and country of origin. Nothing else until you have a lawyer sitting next to you.
True, and Italian police are a special breed of grotesque. Italy’s “justice system” is almost purely theatrical. Evidence and facts are not valued in Italian policing or Italian courts the way they are elsewhere in the world.
If you are accused of a crime in Italy, you are in deep shit. Innocence is absolutely no defense in Italy, even if you can scientifically prove your innocence. Facts do not matter. The public’s emotions and opinions are all that matters in an Italian court case.
That is useful in the US. Not so sure how useful it is in Italy. Different countries have different rules for interrogation. Those differences are generally not something a 20 year old looks up when studying abroad.
Shutting up is useful in every country. If you are in a country that refuses to provide you with a lawyer you are fucked anyway so you might as well shut up.
Miranda rights aren’t a thing in other countries.Actually, it seems many countries do seem to have some degree of “right to silence”, although some can use an “adverse inference” against you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence
Even more reason to shut the fuck up. If you are in a country that will punish you for refusing to make statement without a lawyer you are already fucked either way so you might as well shut up.
Actually, it seems many countries do seem to have some degree of “right to silence”, although some can use an “adverse inference” against you (the UK)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8kgw/the-pot-brothers-at-law-want-you-to-shut-the-fuck-up-around-cops