Amanda Knox's best friend asks a good common-sense question.

[pnwmom]

How could Amanda, with her then very limited Italian, convince a non-English speaker (Guede, the burglar) and a new boyfriend with very limited English her to rape and murder anyone?

She also points out that Rudy Guede, who got his 30 year sentence cut in half after he suddenly changed his story to finger Sollecito, has never had to face questioning by the defense -- although his statement was used in the trial against them.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/dempsey/2011/06/23/amanda-knox-she-doesnt-have-to-prove-her-innocence/

Rudy will have to answer questions in court for the first time on June 27, an earthshaking development that’s barely registered in the press.

“The trial is about the evidence,” says Madison, often described in the Italian media as Amanda’s amica della cuore (friend of the heart). ”When the reporters say Amanda has to prove her innocence, this implies a huge flaw in the system. She’s not supposed to have to prove her innocence. You can see what she’s up against because people really do have that mentality. If you’re in that defendant chair, then you’re guilty until you can prove you’re innocent.”

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When she’s in court, Madison tries to see the events as if she were a defendant. “If I were in their place, I would just desperately want people to use the slightest bit of common sense and rationality. People say these things, but they don’t actually think of what it takes to kill another human being. They just say, oh, there was a brutal rape or murder. I don’t think they visualize in their heads the actual brutality. I don’t think they imagine the horror of it.”

As for the prosecution’s sex game crime theory, which paints Amanda as the instigator and the two young men as mere pawns, Madison points out: ”Rudy doesn’t speak English, Amanda didn’t speak much Italian, and Raffaele spoke minimal English. How did Amanda orchestrate this and convince them to do it? Was this the most macabre charade ever? How did she pull that off? Because she could not.

“I’ve been here seven months. I can order food. I can get around. I could never express my deeper feelings in Italian. I couldn’t possibly convince somebody I’ve known only six days (ndr. as Amanda knew Raffaele) to rape and murder somebody, but that’s the prosecution theory.”

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[JI7]

1. same way she put the blame on an innocent black man who had given her a job

[pnwmom]

2. Could you explain that, please?

I don't see the similarity in the two situations.

In one, she supposedly convinced a stranger who spoke no English, and a boyfriend who spoke little English to rape and murder her friend.

In another, she faced tag-teams of interrogators during over-night questioning, where the investigators insisted they knew she and Raffaele and Patrick had been involved in the murder -- until she finally broke, and said that maybe she had been in the cottage, and maybe she had heard screaming. (A statement she withdrew after a few hours of sleep.)

In the first situation, she supposedly succeeded, with her very limited Italian skills, to convince two people to rape and murder someone.
In the second, with the same limited Italian, she miserably failed to convince the police that she knew nothing about the crime.