The false confession consisted of Knox’s semi-hallucinated memory of her boss killing Kercher… who couldn’t possible have done it. The police coerced that particular confession because they saw Knox’s text message to him. That fact alone is enough to render the interrogation suspect. I don’t recall reading that Knox confessed details which could reliably be confirmed independently. But I may have missed that.
This link suggests that she testified to some things that were independently confirmed. Even regarding the confession about her boss, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence that this testimony was coerced (although it was surely untrue.)
Here’s the counter-argument; Knox was voluntarily in the station when Sollecito was being questioned. They hadn’t risen to the official level of ‘suspect’ yet. They started questioning Knox when Sollecito said Knox wasn’t as his place for some of the evening. She started providing a statement against the bar owner; they still had her as a ‘witness’ instead of a ‘suspect.’ Even the written statement that was inadmissible against Knox was still initially a statement against the bar owner.
The false confession consisted of Knox’s semi-hallucinated memory of her boss killing Kercher… who couldn’t possible have done it. The police coerced that particular confession because they saw Knox’s text message to him. That fact alone is enough to render the interrogation suspect. I don’t recall reading that Knox confessed details which could reliably be confirmed independently. But I may have missed that.
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/our_take_on_the_case_for_the_prosecution_4_amanda_knoxs_multiple_conflictin/
This link suggests that she testified to some things that were independently confirmed. Even regarding the confession about her boss, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence that this testimony was coerced (although it was surely untrue.)
Here’s the counter-argument; Knox was voluntarily in the station when Sollecito was being questioned. They hadn’t risen to the official level of ‘suspect’ yet. They started questioning Knox when Sollecito said Knox wasn’t as his place for some of the evening. She started providing a statement against the bar owner; they still had her as a ‘witness’ instead of a ‘suspect.’ Even the written statement that was inadmissible against Knox was still initially a statement against the bar owner.
All very rational. :)