Results tagged “trial”

Amanda Knox testified (in fluent Italian!) that she's innocent and, perhaps even less convincingly, that the pink rabbit-shaped vibrator was a joke. On the PG-13 side of the news, the envelope goes to the West Seattle blog for revealing that recent Mateo Messina, who won a Grammy for the Juno soundtrack, turns out to be a native son. Native sons and daughters of Ballard residents may be torn asunder, if Seattle school boundary changes take effect, according to MyBallard.

Amanda Knox is teary-eyed after her first day of testimony, and here in Seattle, we're a little worse for wear as well. Richard Branson blasted Boeing and threatened to take his bidness elsewhere. MyBallard is readying for the memorial for Kevin Black, the cyclist killed in an accident Wednesday. PhinneyWood has the deets on the senior center shakedown in which thieves stole three Gs accrued through spaghetti feeds and karaoke bingo.

Carlos Bernadez, 18, has entered a "not guilty" plea in response to the first-degree homicide and assault charges brought against him for the murder of Joseph Ryan (rapper 29-E) in the tragic shootings at Chop Suey earlier this month. The older man charged in connection to the shootings, Roger La Branche, has also pled not guilty to his drug possession charge. There were several witnesses to 29-E's murder, as we understand, and to the shots that left Prezwell Jackson and Trama of Black Senate injured; not sure how much water this "not-guilty" plea will hold in court.

According to the electronic edition of the we get in our inboxes each morning, Seattle's most famous exchange student has finally gotten to trial in Perugia, Italy. Amanda Knox, the UW student accused of taking part in the sado-sexual murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, has been an obsession of the British and Italian (and Seattle, to a lesser degree) media, as the article attests to:

Is it just us, or is it unspeakably flimsy speculation on the part of the Italian prosecutor in the Amanda Knox trial to make "specific references in court to rocker Marilyn Manson and the violent, sexually charged Japanese manga comics Sollecito was fond of"? Giuliano Mignini is trying to draw a link between the fact that murdered student Kercher dressed as a vampire for Halloween and one of Raffaele Sollicito's graphic novels has to do with someone killing vampires on Halloween. Whereas Mignini has set himself the task of describing how an apparently crazy-ass threesome slaughtered Kercher without leaving anything besides circumstantial evidence behind, Knox's lawyers argue it was just one attacker. We have the uncomfortable feeling we're learning more about Mignini's psyche than we really wanted to.

Various media reports have indicated the city and the Sonics have reached a settlement in the Key Arena lease case, just hours before Judge Marsha Pechman was due to announce her ruling in the matter. Press conferences for both parties have been announced for 5 p.m. PDT.

The justice system may buckle in Oklahoma City’s favor this afternoon with results of the Sonics trial set to be announced at 4 p.m., but the wrath of God is clearly on Seattle’s side.