"The Italians have a confession it sounds like though."They accused her of planning the murder with her employer, to whom she texted "see you later." They took this as evidence of a prearranged meeting. After days of interrogation, and no lawyer, she "confessed." Later, that employer sued her for that confession - and won. So on the one hand, the Italian court has ruled that the confession was a false statement, for which she is liable, and at the same time, the Italian court has ruled that she must be guilty because she confessed.I've been cured of any notion of ever visiting that country.
Just don't kill anyone while you are there. The ruling was that she was trying to throw blame on the employer to excuse her actions. Basically there is no reason to confess to a murder you didn't commit but you might doctor it up to make yourself look less culpable.
"Basically there is no reason to confess to a murder you didn't commit..."And yet false confessions are extracted under duress all the time. Some people are against using torture tactics to extract information for that very reason. You know anybody like that, Dal?
"Basically there is no reason to confess to a murder you didn't commit..."And yet false confessions are extracted under duress all the time. Some people are against using torture tactics to extract information for that very reason. You know anybody like that, Dal?
Yeah well torture doesn't appear to have been in the cards. They had an extended interrogation period but even here there is no limit on how long makes a questioning too long. Sounds like under US law the thing would have been tossed out but Italy has different rules. Alan Dershowitz made the point that there are a lot of people in jail here convicted under similar amounts of evidence with the same "questions". High profile cases tend to highlight that the judicial process is rarely as smooth as it seems it should be.
In this interview here... Knox talks about that interrogation.... http://youtu.be/SrS3k3MvaGs?t=17m45s
Don't know the substance, but false confessions happen even absent torture: http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/False-Confessions.php