{"id":77,"date":"2009-03-31T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tsiblog.potlikker.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-10-22T03:53:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T01:53:53","slug":"amanda-knox-attracts-international-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Knox Attracts International Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29928796\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-79 alignleft\" title=\"mez-trial-004\" src=\"http:\/\/tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mez-trial-0041-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Raphael Sollecito talks with counsel during a break in the trial.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Normally I do not follow sensationalized news stories.\u00c2\u00a0 Since I am in Perugia I decided last Saturday to check out the Meredith Kercher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29928796\/\">murder trial<\/a> involving Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raphael Sollecito.\u00c2\u00a0 With the eyes of a foreigner I thought it would be a good idea to see the proceedings first hand.\u00c2\u00a0 I have never seen the legal process\u00c2\u00a0 in Italy and certainly not a trial with such international high profile.<\/p>\n<p>The death of Meredith Kercher, a British college student, is certainly a grave tragedy.\u00c2\u00a0 Most residents of Perugia are not particularly interested in this event and consider the attention that has fallen on their medieval city to be a disgrace.\u00c2\u00a0 I was particularly taken by their respect for the passing of the young Meredith and their deference for the law.<\/p>\n<p>With respect to our judicial process in America, I thought the Italian trial was conceptually the same as ours.\u00c2\u00a0 I particularly enjoyed the how the judge, jury and lawyers interacted with each other and the comments and murmurings emanating from the audience were a source of amusement for me.<\/p>\n<p>Innocent or guilty?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Who knows?&#8230;eventually, as we say in America, &#8220;the scales of justice will decide&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I do not follow sensationalized news stories.\u00c2\u00a0 Since I am in Perugia I decided last Saturday to check out the Meredith Kercher murder trial involving Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raphael Sollecito.\u00c2\u00a0 With the eyes of a foreigner I thought it would be a good idea to see the proceedings first hand.\u00c2\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[14,23,91,92,121,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tsirigosorbit.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}