Not really breaking news or much of a shock, but
just moments ago Amanda Knox’s lawyer, Luciano Ghirga, told the Florence daily
La Nazione that she will not be attending her conviction appeals hearings in
Italy. The appeals
of Amanda Knox and Raffele Sollecito against their convictions will begin on September 30, 2013, and will take place
in Florence.
Knox
will be up against a whole new Italian authoritative regime when her appeals
begin. In September Florence’s current chief prosecutor, Giuseppe Quattrocchi,
will retire and Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Dr. Armando Spataro, is expected to
take his place. Dr. Spataro is known to be one of the toughest prosecutors in Italy. Italy also has a new
attorney general for Tuscany, Dr Tindari Baglione, who is expected to select
the prosecutors for the appeal soon.
Italian law permits
Knox not to attend the appeal, where she will instead be represented by her
lawyers. According to Mr. Ghirga, Knox “is not trying to run
away from anything; she just doesn’t understand why a retrial is necessary.”
So, by that logic: because Knox doesn’t understand why a retrial is necessary (even though it’s common practice in Italy for such a
thing) she believes she should not attend because they have not proven to her
why this is even necessary. Amanda Knox’s logic is never short on entertainment
value.
This
past Sunday CNN featured the Amanda Knox story on their “Crimes of the Century”
series; and once again CNN outdid itself by actually topping its previous
record of reporting half-truths and outright errors associated with this story.
They featured a host of pro-Knox-hacks, painted Knox as a poor girl who
continues to be persecuted by evil autocrats tied to a medieval court system,
and of course they made several references to the Knox-o-holics' "Darth Vader,"
Guiliano Mignini.
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