Amanda Knox: Convicted of Cultural Difference?

What if American exchange student Amanda Knox wasn’t really convicted of murder?

What if she was sentenced to 26 years in an Italian jail for the crime of being different?

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That’s what author Nina Burleigh investigates in her book “The Fatal Gift of Beauty.”

Says Burleigh, in a Fox News interview, “It was a misunderstanding between Italian police and this young woman who…was kind of a hippie. They didn’t really know what to make of her. She was so different from how young Italian women are supposed to behave…”

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What are your thoughts about this?

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See the follow-up post to this article:

Will Amanda Knox’s Prosecutor’s Criminal Conviction Help Her Appeal?

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World News Wednesday