Angel Face: Sex, Murder and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox by Barbie Latza Nadeau

Author:Barbie Latza Nadeau [Nadeau, Barbie Latza]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: True Crime
ISBN: 0984295135
Publisher: Beast Books
Published: 2010-04-06T10:00:00+00:00

She was less certain about where she stood with Raf: Something interesting that has come up is about Raffaele. Apparently he told newspapers (though who can trust them) that all I’ve done is made his life crazy and he wants nothing more to do with me. Ouch.

Raffaele also wrote a diary as he waited for the trial to begin, complaining, as befits his privileged upbringing, about having no slippers and no one to clean the toilet. He described the cold floors in his cell and the Moroccan inmates next door who beat their heads against the wall screaming for another dose of heroin. During the summer of 2008, Sollecito began writing to his hometown paper, effectively developing his own column, which always began “Cari Amici della Piazza—dear friends in the square,” a familiar political cry in Italian villages. “I continue to serve my sentence in hell before being convicted of a crime,” he informed the folks back home in Puglia. “I hope someone will remember that I’m still here and that I’m innocent.” He supplied vivid details about living in isolation and befriending a family of cockroaches.

Every scrap of information about Amanda and Raffaele—every photo, every diary entry—was front-page news, avidly consumed throughout Italy and especially in and around Perugia. Most Italian trials are decided by a panel of judges, and only in rare circumstances do they include additional jurors who, in fact, are called “civilian judges.” Their names are drawn from a computerized list with no vetting about their opinions or their exposure to the case, and they are compensated for their time according to their level of education and current salary. The investigation of the Kercher murder dragged on for nearly a year, and for all that time, those who would eventually be called to sit in judgment on Amanda and Raf were bombarded by sensational journalism about them.

The Italian system does, however, allow for a quicker “fast-track” trial if a defendant agrees to fewer witnesses and limited evidence. And that’s what Rudy Guede, arrested November 20, 2007, fourteen days after Amanda and Raffaele, requested.

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