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The Cuomo Interview: Why This May Be The Last Time Knox Tries To Argue Innocence On TV

Concepts of innocence I want to make the distinction here, as in some of my previous posts, between factual and legal innocence to show how on factual evidence Knox is giving up. Factual innocence is what we may consider “true” innocence, i.e. the complete lack of involvement in a crime.…

Vivianna 05/22/14 40 01/25/15
Pseudoinnocence: Is This Possibly The Predicament Of Amanda Knox?

In a dissertation titled Pseudoinnocence ““ An Invitation To Murder, Barbara Shore explores the phenomenon of “pseudoinnocence” in American culture as an inadequate response to the “conflagration of violence that encircles us today.” These are her introductory words: “America is a country long haunted by its pseudoinnocence, by its blinding…

Vivianna 09/28/11 63 09/30/11