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History From the Archives: Madison Paxton on Amanda Knox's Innocence
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:32 PM
- Madison Paxton
- Amanda Knox in early 2007, at 43rd and the Ave.
In light of the news from Italy, you ought to re-read Madison Paxton's defense of her friend Amanda Knox, published in 2009 in The Stranger. Paxton has been living in Italy and visiting her friend throughout the appeal.
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I don't know if she did it or not, though the evidence as released to the public is too sketchy for me to have gone with a guilty verdict had I been on the trial.
Be that as it may, one article I actually found really helpful to think about on this sort of thing actually came from cracked.com:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19455_5-c…
Namely:
"For instance, one popular interrogation technique has the interrogator give a monologue claiming he already knows the subject is guilty, and then follows nine scripted steps to get a signed confession. It's incredibly effective -- it gets guilty suspects to confess nearly 84 percent of the time. Oh, and it gets innocent people to confess approximately 43 percent of the time. Add hinting at fake evidence, and you can up that false confession rate to about 94 percent."
Considering the long interrogations without counsel, with an unclear understanding of the language, and no audio or video history of it, anything she said to the cops, or anything they say she said, has to be considered so corrupted as to be unusable.
I've got no stake in this. If she's guilty I hope karma gets its own. If she's innocent I hope she's allowed to move past it. I just think the whole prosecution and trial sounded shady from the start.
Be that as it may, one article I actually found really helpful to think about on this sort of thing actually came from cracked.com:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19455_5-c…
Namely:
"For instance, one popular interrogation technique has the interrogator give a monologue claiming he already knows the subject is guilty, and then follows nine scripted steps to get a signed confession. It's incredibly effective -- it gets guilty suspects to confess nearly 84 percent of the time. Oh, and it gets innocent people to confess approximately 43 percent of the time. Add hinting at fake evidence, and you can up that false confession rate to about 94 percent."
Considering the long interrogations without counsel, with an unclear understanding of the language, and no audio or video history of it, anything she said to the cops, or anything they say she said, has to be considered so corrupted as to be unusable.
I've got no stake in this. If she's guilty I hope karma gets its own. If she's innocent I hope she's allowed to move past it. I just think the whole prosecution and trial sounded shady from the start.
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DNA doesn't really have a timestamp that many think it does, when people live with and sometimes fuck each other these things get all sorts of messed up, in this sense, guilt based solely on only that or acting weird during interrogation does little to bring salient facts forward. But in any case, we are just spectators in a sad event all around...
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If she had not pointed it all at Lumbia so quick, her case would would have been better, but she did, and unfortunate as it is, her time served in the end was a wash, the 30 grand can be paid for w/ the prospectus money from her forthcoming tell all contract book deal.
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still this is somewhat contextual interesting:
"The problematic racial overtones in the reporting of the case not only involve Italians but black men. Following her November 2007 arrest, Knox wrote to police that bar owner Patrick Lumumba killed Kercher.
“In these flashbacks that I’m having, I see Patrik [sic] as the murderer, but the way the truth feels in my mind, there is no way for me to have known because I don’t remember FOR SURE if I was at my house that night.”
"The problematic racial overtones in the reporting of the case not only involve Italians but black men. Following her November 2007 arrest, Knox wrote to police that bar owner Patrick Lumumba killed Kercher.
“In these flashbacks that I’m having, I see Patrik [sic] as the murderer, but the way the truth feels in my mind, there is no way for me to have known because I don’t remember FOR SURE if I was at my house that night.”
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