http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/oct/03/amanda-knox-cleared-murder-video
Brief update on advocacy in the Knox case that I mentioned in a previous blog. Her conviction has now been overturned and she is free. Last time, I discussed how the lawyer's opposing depictions of the accused were too fanciful to give a true account of the person in question.
Before the bench came to its final decision, Knox was allowed to make a plea. It was filmed, and the above link will take you to a video of it. Her speech is about half way through. It is in Italian but it doesn't matter if you can't understand it (I can't) - the point still came across very clearly to me. Knox sounds much more real and human though her own words and voice. The cartoon imagery used by counsel on both sides seems frankly silly when you hear Knox simply, but emotively, telling her story.
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