Amanda Knox - Guilty Or Innocent? She is innocent!

Please attempt to use less appeals to emotion. It makes it harder to see where your actual arguments are. Rebuttals 1. Steve Moore Pro uses an appeal to authority stating that if a FBI agent believes Knox to be innocent it must be so. Pro has failed to back this up with any source or even detailing what information made Moore so sure that Knox was innocent. 2. Antonio Aviello This claim is incompatible with the known facts. This was debunked after it was shown that the break-in had been done from the inside. Considering that Kercher was not known to Aviello, this would be impossible. In addition the murder weapon, the knife, has already been found (with both Kercher's and Knox's DNA on it). This knife matches the wounds. To assume that this is not actually the knife is unreasonable and goes in the face of the evidence. Furthermore, there is incredibly strong DNA evidence showing that Guede raped Kercher. Guede did not know Aviello. I, and the court too it appears, deem it very unlikely that after Kercher was raped by Guede, he left Kercher alive (raising another question as to why Guede confessed if he was innocent of the murder) to then be murdered by a third party who then staged a break-in. 3. Court Bias Pro states that they never considered she wasn't guilty. This is untrue. She was initially only questioned because she accompanied Sollecito to the police station. However, during this course of the investigation her odd behaviour and inconsistent story increased the amount of suspicion on her leading her to be investigated. Under the course of investigation evidence was found against her. It would seem to me that you are more biased in her favour, disregarding evidence which suggest her innocence. This seems evident based on your willingness to accept Guede and Sollecito's guilt, whereas infact the only consistent explanation in which Knox could be innocent is one in which Guede and Sollecito must be innocent as well. 4. Character Pro makes more comments about Knox's nature. You have not rebutted my counter-arguments from the last round. I extend them. 5. Claims about Meredith's character Even if she did have links to the mafia, it would not be relevent until you can show stronger evidence linking them to her murder than that of Knox, Guede and Sollecito. In addition I do believe it is shameful to attempt to make Kercher seem like the villainous party when there are many negative aspects about Knox which appear far worse, but I have not included because I feel their characters and personal lives are irrelevent. Arguments You have not attempted to address any of my arguments aside from the footprint. I extend them. To address the footprint issue; obviously she would have got rid of a bloody shoe. Seeing as you have not been able to suggest any other women it could belong to, it is reasonable to assume that it does Knox, the only woman who is strongly linked to the scene of the crime other then the victim . 4. Forensic evidence As an additional piece of forensic evidence which I failed to include last round; mixed blood samples were found around the apartment.While chance would have it that perhaps both women had somehow left blood at one location, the statistical probability that this mixed blood or DNA could be found in multiple locations seems to be a stretch, even for the defense. While it is difficult, if not impossible to accurately date blood evidence, Knox testified that there was no blood in the bathroom the day before Kercher's murder, therefore apparently dating the damning blood evidence to the night of the crime, and by her own statement seeming to place her at the crime scene at or near the time of the victim's death. The same mixture of DNA was found in a bloody footprint in the hallway and in a roommate's bedroom, more evidence that is hard to refute. ------------------------------ Just as note; you make several remarks which are very condescending to the country of Italy. It is worth bearing in mind that they have a fair and reliable legal system. Furthermore, I don't believe many Italians would be particularly upset with less Americans visiting their country as it would not significantly damage their tourist industry (mainly East Asian and European tourists). Also Pro remarks that Wikipedia is unreliable. I contend this, but do not wish to make it into a larger argument. I shall let our voters decide. Sources http://news.sky.com... http://www.livesecure.org... http://news.bbc.co.uk... http://news.bbc.co.uk... http://en.wikipedia.org...