{"id":4943,"date":"2011-10-03T15:13:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2011-10-03T15:13:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:13:51","slug":"amanda-knox-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/03\/amanda-knox-freed\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Knox freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The court in Italy has cleared Amanda Knox of murder, she is free to go. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Italian appeals court has thrown out Amanda Knox&#8217;s murder conviction and ordered the young American freed after nearly four years in prison for the death of her British roommate.<\/p>\n<p>Knox collapsed in tears after the verdict was read out Monday. Her co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, also was cleared of killing 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The Kercher family looked on grimly as the verdict was read out by the judge after 11 hours of deliberations by the eight-member jury. Outside the courthouse, some of the hundreds of observers shouted &#8220;Shame, shame!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting.  The Italian people see about as interested in vengeance regardless of guilt as Americans are, but the courts are a bit more forgiving. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/world\/130963978.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, there is probably an interesting story behind the name &#8220;Patrick Lamumba.&#8221; Any guesses?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court in Italy has cleared Amanda Knox of murder, she is free to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1hJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}