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Amanda Knox is finally vindicated

After more than 8 years of tortuous legal proceedings in the Italian courts, Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were finally exonerated on March 27, 2015. Over the course of a conviction by a Perugia court in 2009, an acquittal in 2011 (after a first appeals court trial), and then a second conviction in 2014 (after another appellate trial), the pair had spent four years in prison. On Tuesday, September 8, Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, issued a scathing written opinion explaining its March ruling.

Was it legal to shoot David Sweat?

In the movies, police often shoot the bad guys, taking any opportunity they can to get the kill. The audience cheers. In the real world, these cases should be closely examined to determine whether our police are respecting human life in each and every case, as the law requires.