The Amanda Knox Trial

A witch-hunt is what occurs when mass hysteria breaks out among a group of people. It is a search to find the source of their fears, which in most cases, are purely in their minds. These people who conduct these witch-hunts are often searching for something that does not exist. A witch-hunt is conducted to project one’s own sin on another person, or group of people. To conduct a witch-hunt is to deny all morality.

The case of the Amanda Knox Trial is perhaps one of the best examples of a witch-hunt. Amanda Knox, a 20 year old American girl, was charged with the crime of murdering one of her roommates, 21 year old Meredith Kercher. Knox’s boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito was also convicted. Neither of the two were guilty of the crime they were accused of. The “witch” in this witch-hunt was Amanda Knox.

When Amanda Knox went to the cottage where she lived in Perugia, Italy with three other girls, she did not expect to find several odd things. The front door was open, there was blood in the bathroom sink, the toilet had been used but not flushed, and a window was broken. Knox decided to check in with her roommates to figure out what happened. She knocked on the door of her roommate Meredith Kercher,
Instead, the unit of the police that deals with things like online scams and missing phones arrived. The crime scene ended up being contaminated by several people. An important detail about Amanda Knox is that she was known by friends and family to be strictly “book-smart”, meaning that when it came to street sense, she did not have any. In fact, an article in Rolling Stone magazine said, “Though unaware that she was a suspect, Knox had been put under surveillance by Perugian police.” This information is important to note, Amanda Knox was not aware that she was a suspect in the murder of Meredith Kercher, something that anyone with any inkling of “street sense” would be aware