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KABANGA asked in TravelItalyPerugia · 10 years ago

After reading about Amanda Knox, would you answer any question a cop asked you?

I would tell them that I can't say a thing until I speak to my lawyer.

Especially if I was in Perugia.

I would suspect that they were just trying to get me to say something suspicious, which would give them an excuse to interrogate me, and keep working on me until I signed a confession.

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  • 10 years ago
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    Hard to say.

    When Knox 1st called the police and they found the body, the cops probably asked her about where she was the night before.

    She was at her boy friend's apartment. They did marijuana that night and probably sex, and she slept with him. Amanda was a immature young woman who was probably uncomfortable discussing that with the cops.

    Perhaps she answered their questions in a manner that made her look like she had something to hide, and this made the cops suspicious. Well, she did have something she did not want to talk about, the sex and drugs she did with a man she was not married to, whom she had only 1st met a few weeks before.

    My guess is the next thing the cops did was a test. Pretend that they know already know who she killed when they question her, use the theme "look, you know and I know you killed her. Until you stop lying to us we will have to keep interrogating you, you might as well confess now and get it over with."

    If the perp is innocent, his emotional reaction will be anger. If the perp did it, his emotion will be guilt and fear. The idea is look at the perp instead of listening to him. If the perp can't act innocent, his face will tell you what his mouth won't.

    Source(s): If I were in her place I would not have signed anything, and the cops would have to give me a few bruises after I said "I'm gonna sue,you stupid wops!"
  • 10 years ago

    Actually it is don't confuse the carabinieri with the cops who interrogated dear Amanda.

    This case was handled by the Perugian Postal Police, because Meredith's cel phones were stolen.

    You cant consider them them to be real cops, they are more like a bunch of guys with badges and uniforms, who got hold of a pretty girl and had some fun with her.

    Amanda is an American Citizen, therefore she is innocent until proven guilty!

    The verdict of that Perugian court can be disregarded, as well as anything else that court says.

    She did'nt try to frame Patrick Lumumba, the communications police asked her to imagine what happened when Kercher was killed. Patrick is Black so the cops felt their story would be more believable if they had him doing the stabbing while Amanda was holding her. Get your facts straight.

    Source(s): Google it, I am not making this up, my answer is based on news reports I have read.
  • Not without a lawyer. Just imagine of one of the cops struck you like they did Amanda.

    @HyperDog- "Very often the cops will tell you that things will "go better for you" if you just talk to them (i.e. w/o a lawyer)" -That's exactly what they told Amanda. Y'know, as in right before they used an interrogation technique used to break Mafia members, told her to tell them her boss was the murderer, and then struck her in the back of the head when she wouldn't incriminate him. All in an interrogation that spanned 8 or 9 hours(overnight), with no food, no drink, no lawyer, no bathroom break and an interpreter that didn't show up until about halfway through.

    They kept her overnight, shouted at her, made intimidating gestures, deprived her of necessities, waited until she got delirious, then struck her in the back of the head, in order to "Help her remember." Then they wrote up a confession in Italian, told her it was just a standard form, made her sign it, and then informed her that it was a document stating that she, Rafaele, and Patrick(her boss) had killed Meredith. She then recanted it immediately, but they didn't care. They arrested the three of them right away.

  • The evidence was a pillow with a hand print in blood found under Meredith's body.

    The hand is that of Rudy Guede, the man convicted of killing Kercher in another trial.

    If Mignini had to try this case in front of an British style jury that had never heard or read anything in the news about the case and was sequestered. And they did'nt buy his story about the sex game they were playing or his story about the satanic cult, they would not believe any of the evidence he presented or anything his witnesses said.

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  • 10 years ago

    In the U.S. you only need to give your name, address and date of birth.

    Now, having said that, if you are so much as impolite to a cop, they can (and often will) find a reason to detain you longer than they would have otherwise.

    But, if he/she DOES decide to arrest you, then the best advice is to say nothing beyond the above information. Very often the cops will tell you that things will "go better for you" if you just talk to them (i.e. w/o a lawyer) - DON'T BUY IT! Get a lawyer.

  • 10 years ago

    It was not evidence or testimony that put Amanda in jail. It was her membership in a secret society, the order of the red rose.

    I don't know if this is true, but Mignini knows that it is.

    He knows that Meredith Kercher died during a human sacrifice, but he can't prove it.

    Amanda Knox is in jail to prevent her from killing anyone in the future.

  • Mrs C
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    10 years ago

    Don't confuse the Italian police with the KGB. And as of now, Amanda Knox has been found guilty by a court of law, that conviction still stands so don't blame the police. She did herself no favours by lying and trying to frame Patrick Lumumba.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    They found a footprint of Amanda's foot in Meredith's blood under Kercher's body.

    While every thing else in the case may be bull**** they can prove guilt based solely on that.

    BTW I am a Canadian, none of my people are involved so I can be honest.

  • 10 years ago

    Like you say everything else in that case is bull****. The blood evidence is too.

    They found some stuff using luminol that could be evidence, but probably isn't.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    yes

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