Amanda Knox Decision is Final

  

      Amanda Knox, an American student who choose to study overseas and was charged with murder following the death of her roommate has been awaiting the decision of the courts on her case.  After her conviction she appealed and was found not-guilty but the higher courts wanted to review that decision.  It has been several years now but the decision has been handed down.  Amanda Knox had said if her conviction was upheld she would not go to prison but I don't really think she could have remained free long.
   I read the facts of the case before the first trial and I read the facts as presented by the prosecution after her conviction as well as watching documentaries on TV and reading any other available articles on this case.  I have to agree that sometimes her behavior was a little weird and she really isn't all that likeable of a person, I just couldn't wrap my mind around her guilt.  I think, perhaps, she really didn't take the investigation and charges against her all that serious.  She knew she was not guilty and figured the investigation would show that she was innocent so she didn't act the way one would think she would behave. 
   Perhaps if she had been investigated in the United States of America  she would never been charged much less tried and convicted   but she was being tried in the court system of another country and their laws and investigative techniques are different than ours.  Even under our system innocent people get convicted and sometimes the guilty go free.  Most often the unthinkable happen because of shoddy police work and prosecutorial misconduct.  There are, of course, other reasons for false convictions.  mentally incompetent defendants, shoddy lab work, unreliable eye witnesses, and sometimes just plain misinterpretation of the facts.   An example of that was a case the famous doctor Lee was hired to consult on.  The angle of the bullet entering a car clearly showed the defendant was lying and was guilty of murder.  At first Dr. Lee agreed but after talking with some other people he realized that he had  checked the car on level ground when in fact the shooter was standing on a hill.  When he had the true facts it was easy to see that the accused was innocent. 
   Even though the American system of justice doesn't always get it right I would rather take my chances here than   in another country, especially in one I didn't speak the language and wasn't fully emerged in their culture.   I believe the Italian courts have made the proper decision in deciding not to seek to retry her or to uphold her conviction.