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  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • Your point only makes sense if you believe that Rudy Guede was telling the truth. It's possible but she was acquitted so you probably shouldn't libel her here.

  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • You don't have to be an Italian for that advice to be good.

  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • It's always the police who write up what you say, then they ask you to sign it. They wrote up what she said and she signed it. The following day she wrote a long letter saying that she didn't think it was true because she's been under duress. That is why the conviction for slander has been quoshed and this new trial is now happening.

  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • She may well have 'retrieved' a false memory because the police were haranguing her about some texts with Lumumba but it was a lot more than her mentioning his name in passing. She signed two confessions saying that she had been in another room of the house while Lumumba murdered Meredith. Those confessions are considered inadmissible. This trial is about whether she did, in fact, slander him or whether it was entirely due to police pressure.

  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • Did you read the article this thread is about?

  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • Why do you think she accused Rudy Guede? No one has ever said she accused him.

  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • She's appealing a conviction for slandering him. Her grounds for appeal are that the police bullied the confession out of her.

    He spent two weeks in jail and had to abandon his business and his hometown because of it.

    When investigators looked at all the communication on Knox's phone, they found a text that she says was a response to Lumumba, telling him that she would see him later and that she hoped he had a nice evening. Kox accused investigators of confusing and coercing her during the interrogation, with them allegedly insisting to her that the text was instead confirmation of a plan to meet with Lumumba later. Knox now maintains that she was forced to recall a false memory that she and Lumumba were both at the apartment the night that Kercher died, when, she says, that was not the case.

    Lumumba was arrested and held for two weeks, based on the comments Knox made while in custody. Eventually, a man who had been drinking at the bar came forward, saying that Lumumba was there all night and that they had talked, giving Lumumba an alibi. Lumumba, who is Congolese, was released once the alibi put him at his bar at the time the crime took place.

    https://www.bustle.com/articles/186077-where-is-patrick-lumumba-now-the-bar-owner-was-implicated-by-amanda-knox

  • [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat

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  • She's a transphobic piece of shit who abuses the concept of intersectionality to claim eternal victimhood for middle-class white women. Empty-brained narcissist.

  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • If his story is true, his DNA would be found all over the place. His story being: they were making out, he didn't flush the toilet, he fought off the attackers, and he tried to help Meredith before getting scared and running away.

    I'm offering the kindest explanation for Knox falsely accusing a Black man. The other is that she saw a Black man at the scene.

  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • It's a confused tangle of evidence, for sure. But there are approximately two Black men in Perugia and she falsely accused the one who wasn't there. It sticks in my craw, even if the most obvious explanation is that she is an American white woman and falsely accusing Black men is part of her heritage.

  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • Rudy Guede did not confess. He admits he was there, on an impromptu date with Meredith Kurcher, heard a commotion while he was taking a dump, disturbed the killers, who ran for it. He pled guilty for a shorter sentence. He chose a fast-tracked trial and was originally sentenced to 30 years, reduced on appeal to 16. Knox and Sollecito were also convicted and got longer sentences than Guede because they went to trial. They were but were later freed on appeal.

    I've no idea what the truth is but your summary is inaccurate.

    Edited for accuracy/poor memory.

  • Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

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  • Just to pre-empt the usual misunderstanding when these badly reported stories get posted: this is the equivalent of an appeal, initiated by Knox. Not the Italian courts persecuting her.

  • Laura Kuenssberg: West facing 'authoritarian' alliance, says Nato chief

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  • That's sort of correct. But she would have devoted her entire life to getting Corbyn out of office if 2017 had turned out differently. She's a Tory through and through, and so is fucking Starmer.

  • Laura Kuenssberg: West facing 'authoritarian' alliance, says Nato chief

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  • No but Kuenssberg was interviewing him. Any decent journalist would point out that allies of these authoritarian powers are gaining power in the US and UK and elsewhere, and ask how worried should be we about Russian money funding the Tories or the Republican love-in with Putin.

    But she won't because she is not a journalist, she's a political gossip and Tory suckup.

  • How do I deal with people not reading things?

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  • (and generally everyone I have worked with at school so far)

    The context is a group project you have to do for school?

    The reason I am checking is that these often turn into one person desperately trying to get the others to do something and ending up doing it all themselves. You're not really talking about "people" so much as "students who half-arse it until a few hours before the deadline".

    What is it you're trying to get them to do? Why do they need to read the stuff you're sending them?

    particularly documentation for tools and programs, data sheets, and application notes.

    No one reads this stuff unless they absolutely have to. What is the purpose of asking them to read it?

  • ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Play Starring Tom Holland and Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers Faces ‘Barrage of Racial Abuse,’ Producer Says ‘This Must Stop’

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  • They're trying to minimise the additional abuse she will get because of this story.

  • Warning after people fined because they used Royal Mail stamps

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  • who the fuck keeps receipts for stamps?

    They're charging (fining) the recipients £5 to collect the post so the people they're robbing couldn't possibly have the relevant receipt anyway.

    They better have some very good evidence that the problem is not with their stamps given the decades-long saga with the Post Office (which started years before Royal Mail was sold off as a separate entity).

  • Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability

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  • You're nitpicking the headline while agreeing with the article.

    “What is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, and that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.”

  • Germany fans banned from buying number 44 kits over Nazi symbolism

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  • There's only 23 players in a squad and, traditionally, only the numbers 1-11 used on the pitch. There are no good reasons for 44, let alone 88, to exist.

    "Ban" is a clickbait word. Adidas has decided not to make any more of them because it doesn't want to be associated with Nazis. Oh noes.