End Of A Long Trail

[ironman2000]

For us, those features will eventually fade from memory. But, for her family, that face – and the spirit and life of the girl who inhabited it – will never grow old as it should have done. And yesterday, as her family gave a press conference in the basement of a city hotel, that pain was brought sickeningly home. Father John, mother Arline, brothers John Jr and Lyle, and sister Stephanie sat in a line at a table and spoke, as they have always done – with restraint and a gracious dignity – of the loss they will ever bear.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...d-1835032.html

I feel great sorrow for both families involved and also releif............

Keith

[Chalkie]

A very sad story and sadly this sort of thing happens all too often!

I was a little perturbed that the lawyer for the American girl who was found guilty appeared on the news here!

She is trying to claim that because the justice system in Italy is not the same as the US justice system that the trial result is possibly a travesty!

Wrong type of jury, wrong this wrong that! Well, all i can say is that the justice system in Europe is pretty fair and that Italy is not some third world junta!

Would my American friends also feel that justice in Europe is dodgy? Is Italy seen as a country that would jail someone unjustly in a case like this? Do you feel that just because other justice systems do not follow the USA system that they are dodgy?

Not wishing to suggest anything, just wondering the state of feeling.

[mojo]

I watched this too. I don't think we will ever really know.

I think the legal differences are that in Italy the jury only needs to pass by majority whereas in the us it has to be a unanomous vote or it's hung and goes to retrial. Some of the dna was to sketchy to be allowed in us courts where it was allowed in Italy. Stuff like that.

I think it's unfortunate that people are saying that Italy doesn't like usa so they have an agenda, blah blah. I think Italy values it's legal system and its all lawyerspeak.

The whole thing is very sad!

[jo_1011]

This is such an awful story!

I feel so so sorry for the family.

Jo