*Drumroll* Amanda Knox verdict coming up!

[Eddie Teach]

The BF seems to have just been pulled along, didn't hear much about him.

Wasn't he an Italian? You wouldn't expect American media to care about him.

[Martinus]

Well the Italian legal system is something or a farce.

Assuming it's "of" and not "or", do you base this on anything substantial, when it comes to bringing flimsy criminal charges against people in Italy? I get the whole Italy bashing is all the rage and it has its failings, but I never thought that sentencing innocent people is one of them. In fact, if I was to name a single Western country which is rather infamous for putting innocent people in jail, it's probably the US.

[Eddie Teach]

We're hardly "infamous" for that, unless you're counting people convicted of drug crimes as innocents.

[grumbler]

We're hardly "infamous" for that, unless you're counting people convicted of drug crimes as innocents.

Obvious troll was obvious, and you fell for it anyway. 

[Eddie Teach]

If we never responded to posts that weren't made in perfect sincerity, this forum would be an awfully quiet place.

[DGuller]

Well the Italian legal system is something or a farce.

Assuming it's "of" and not "or", do you base this on anything substantial, when it comes to bringing flimsy criminal charges against people in Italy? I get the whole Italy bashing is all the rage and it has its failings, but I never thought that sentencing innocent people is one of them. In fact, if I was to name a single Western country which is rather infamous for putting innocent people in jail, it's probably the US.

My knowledge of Italian judicial system is that they're the bane of auto racing.  When Jim Clark was involved in a collision with Wolfgang von Trips, who was driving a Ferrari and was killed, Clark was harassed by Italian legal authorities for years.  Clark also happened to be a title contender throughout his career, and often against Ferrari drivers.  Mind you, von Trips was responsible for the accident, and fatal accidents are something that happened in racing, and pretty often in 1961.

The second example was when Ayrton Senna was killed in 1994 in a Williams car, probably because his steering column broke.  Again, the owner of Williams and several other people were tried for manslaughter for years afterwards.  Coincidentally, Williams was the main title contender of Ferrari those years.

[Warspite]

I thought Senna died because of shitty track design and bad luck.

[DGuller]

I thought Senna died because of shitty track design and bad luck.

That contributed.

[Razgovory]

We're hardly "infamous" for that, unless you're counting people convicted of drug crimes as innocents.

Obvious troll was obvious, and you fell for it anyway. 

Yeah, it's not worth even responding to something so dumb.

[Gups]

Yes, yes I would.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Foreigners are under the impression that all Brits are sophisticated and well-spoken because we've only met the ones who've fled their wretched homeland.

And of course I would.

[Razgovory]

Foreigners are under the impression that all Brits are sophisticated and well-spoken because we've only met the ones who've fled their wretched homeland.

And of course I would.

Talking to actual Brits has disabused me of that notion.

[Habsburg]

I realize she is probably a huge mess just now...

I felt her press conference today came off badly, maybe just her personality.

It was like watching Byrce Dallas Howard act, didn't buy it, painful to watch.

[11B4V]

Thought it went as expected for someone in her position.

[Gups]

Thought it went as expected for someone in her position.

Guilty as hell but about to make millions from her crime?