.Amanda and Rafaela Questioned
Police questioned Amanda and Rafaela several times over the next several days and on November 6, authorities arrested Amanda and Rafaela taking them to are the police station where police held Knox for five days. During the time at the station, police observed Knox doing some very bizarre activities. For example, at one point, authorities allowed Knox to sit on Sollecito’s lap and authorities observe him kissing and hugging on her. In her memoir, Knox claims this behavior was not odd, but just Soilecito’s way of trying to calm her down. At another point, seated across the table from each other Rafaela and Amanda are making faces at each other. Amanda insists that these behaviors were not odd, because she had so many emotions going on that she was not accountable for her actions, especially since she realized how close she could have come to dying if she had been in the apartment with Margaret. Police were especially concerned because upon hearing of Margaret’s death, Amanda seemed strangely quiet, while Rafaela seemed extremely loud and confused. They also found it bizarre that Amanda did cartwheels in the police station and that she paced excessively when authorities took her to be fingerprinted.
Alleged Sexual Abuse by Police
One allegation that Amanda made while at the station was that police sexually abused and raped her while at the station. She reports this was especially true of Deputy Commander Raffaele Agiro. Knox claims that Agiro took her into late night meetings and repeatedly questioned her about her lovers. Amanda claims that this officer was fixated on sex. Soon after Knox’s release, Agiro retired, and then was put on trial for his behavior while working at the Capanne prison after a M...
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...peals trial for Amanda and Rafaela opens in Perugia. During this trial, lawyers manage to disprove much of the original DNA evidence proving that it was contaminated. This court overturns the lower court’s decision. Almost a year after this trial starts, on October 3, 2011, the court turns Amanda and Rafaela free. Authorities find Amanda guilty of slander against Diya “Patrick” Lumumba and sentence her to time served and to pay Lumumba $29,000. On paper, authorities increase her time from one year to just over three years, but she had already served the time and released.
Amanda Leaves Italy
It took Amanda only two hours from the time that she was set free by the court to leave the prison where she had spent the last three years. She quickly traveled back to Seattle, Washington, by first catching a flight to Rome, where her mother was waiting for her with open arms.
On June 19th of 1990, Robert Baltovich’s girlfriend Elizabeth Bain went missing. Elizabeth told her family that she was going to check the tennis schedules at her school, the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. She never returned, but her car was eventually recovered. It was found with blood on the backseat, with forensic tests showing that it was Elizabeth’s. With no clear evidence, the “solving” of the case was completely based on eyewitness testimonies, which eventually had Robert arrested for the murder of his girlfriend.
The suspect of the two rapes was known to smoke cigarettes, wear white gloves, ride a bike, use a knife, wear shoes that had rubber soles, and have a flashlight. When Ronald Cotton went into the police station to start things out, they took the knife that he always carried out from his front right pocket. Once Detective Gauldin started to question him, Ron told Gauldin that he smoked Newports, which is a type of cigarette. After he was questioned multiple times, they showed him a pair of black canvas World Cup shoes. He said that his shoes insoles were falling apart, but they weren’t that beaten up when the police showed them to him. They then showed him a piece of material that came from his shoe, which was left in Jennifer Thompson’s apartment. After that, they then showed him a red flashlight and accused him of taking batteries from Mary’s house, the other rape
Casey was arrested on July 16th, 2008 and charged the following day with giving false statements to law enforcement, child neglect and obstruction of a criminal investigation. Casey was interviewed by officers regarding the disappearance of Caylee and claimed that she “felt that Caylee was still alive” (YouTube, 2008). Casey remained calm, emotionless and flirty throughout the interview with the police officer and continued to claim that she did not know the whereabouts of Caylee and insisted on disc...
The Casey Anthony case was one that captured the heart of thousands and made it to the headline of national TV talk shows, newspapers, radio stations and social media networks for months. The root of the case was due to a clash between the parental responsibilities, the expectations that went with being a parent, and the life that Casey Anthony wanted to have. The case was in respect to the discovering the cause of Casey’s two-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony’s, death; however the emphasis was placed on Casey and her futile lies, which resulted in a public outcry. The purpose of this essay is to delve into the public atmosphere and inquire about why the media and social media collectively attacked the case by uncovering the content of the case, the charges that were laid, and later dismissed, the “performers” of the trial and the publics reaction. It will further discuss how it defies universal ideologies and how the media represents this. The discussion of the complexities of the case and its connotations will incorporate Stuart Hall’s Representation and the Media, Robert Hariman’s Performing the Laws, What is Ideology by Terry Eagleton, The Body of the Condemned by Michael Foucault, and a number of news articles, which will reveal disparate ideas of representation in the media, and the role of the performers of the law and their effect on the understanding of the case.
In the courtroom, Amanda tried to wipe away her tears. She admitted to the judge, “It seems like I just can't win.” She was still trying to pay off her son's funeral. Like most people, she had no clue that even a basic funeral could cost thousands of dollars. On top of her funeral costs, she was struggling to save money for a new apartment. In addition to her other financial burdens, she still had tickets to pay
Nashville police department received information that a suspect in a car bombing case, as well as some illegal, stolen equipment, could be found in the home of Mary Cooper. A few law enforcement officers were dispatched to her home. The police officers went to Cooper’s home and asked for permission to enter the home, but Cooper refused, without a search warrant. Two officers left and two were still at the resident of Mrs. Cooper. A few hours later, the two police officers returned with more police officers, waving a piece of paper, and broke open the front door. Cooper asked to see the warrant and took it from the officer, putting it her pants. The police officers had a struggle with Cooper and took the piece of paper away from her. They handcuffed for being aggressively
As the defense has so diligently pointed out, it is indeed a sad day in the history of our judicial system when an innocent woman is sent to her death for a crime that she did not commit. I, for one, am not planning on having that momentous occasion take place today, and this is for one simple reason: Justine is guilty. While the defense has done nothing but parade Justine’s friends in front of you saying how much of a “nice person” she is, I, the prosecution, have presented you with cold, hard facts, all of which point to the guilt of the defendant.
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The author uses a lengthy exposition to explain how he lost his innocence many years ago. When his daughter ambushes him with her statement, “…I guess you must’ve killed somebody,” he simply replies with, “Of course not” (131). However, he then details for the reader his experience of throwing a grenade and killing an enemy soldier from back when he was in the military. This story is Ambush’s exposition – when an author provides the reader with necessary background information. Tim O’Br...
In the summer of 1984, 22 - year old Jennifer Thompson’s life drastically changed when a man broke into her apartment, held a knife to her throat and raped her. During the attack, Thompson was determined to stay alert; she studied his face, his voice and any other details that could be used to help identify the perpetrator. Her intention was to survive, and with the information from the attack she planned to help the police catch her rapist. After a composite sketch, photo identification, physical line-up identification and trial, Thompson identified Ronald cotton as her attacker. Her testimony and memory alone was enough to sentence Cotton to life in prison. After a few years in prison, Cotton met a man named Bobby Poole, who had previously
The plot of the room and the clevland kidnapping also is resembled in the way that both victims went through unimaginary amounts of rape and abuse. Shortly after being kidnapped “Ma” concived a baby by her prisoner “Old nick” She gave birth to the baby but the child shortly died after of suffication from the umbilical cord. This closely resembles the story of Michelle Knight as she has reported her Kidnapper Ariel Castro induced miscarages by beating and sometimes starvations. “Ma” is also significantly simillar to the victim Amanda berry. Both women conviced and gave birth to children by their kidnappers. The final resmeblence in the plot of “ Room” and the clevland kidnappings is the escape. In the book “Room” Ma pretends jack is dead and has old nick take his body wrapped up in the rug he
The story unfolds by the investigators interrogating her and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, because they were trying to connect pieces of information together on who was guilty. Concluding, the court decides that her and her boyfriend are found innocent due to many flaws found in the investigation, such as there being small amounts of evidence of their crime. There were many shifts found in this film, such as changing from one fault to another and causing several innocent individuals to be convicted of a crime they did not execute. This documentary was well structured in such a way that their audience was able to grasp the story of what really happened by the order of events in which they occurred. This story was distorted world-wide because the media had made it a global issue, which brought in much more complications since it was not within their own country anymore. The audience was startled by how someone can be so cruel in doing such a
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was raped at knife point in her apartment. She was able to escape and identify Ronald Cotton as her attacker. The detective conducting the lineup told Jennifer that she had done great, confirming to her that she had chosen the right suspect. Eleven years later, DNA evidence proved that the man Jennifer Identified, Ronald Cotton was innocent and wrongfully convicted. Instead, Bobby Poole was the real perpetrator. Sadly, there are many other cases of erroneous convictions. Picking cotton is a must read for anybody because it educates readers about shortcomings of eyewitness identification, the police investigative process and the court system.
George’s journey in the criminal justice system began when officers arrested her at her house in the presence of her children, which occurred rather in a calm manner, considering the nature of her charges. The detectives arrived at her house with a social worker to secure her children, and they refrained from making a brutal arrest scene by not
Christopher, Liam. “Mother ‘vindicated’ after girl’s murder suspect held.” Daily Post. 18 Aug. 2006: 19. Proquest Newsstand. Web. 28 Feb. 2014.