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“Ms. Amanda Knox Was Acquitted Of Murder”

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Amanda Knox was acquitted today of a murder that riveted three countries for the past four years and just hours later was whisked away from an Italian prison, ending her four-year ordeal.

The Seattle woman’s legs buckled and she let out a silent cry when the judge in Perugia, Italy, announced that the  appeals court had thrown out her conviction for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher and vacated her 26-year prison sentence.

Knox, 24,  was hustled out of the courtroom, barely able to walk, stumbling while being hauled along by court
officers. The former exchange student was crying and doubled over, her head occasionally coming up for big breaths of air.

Hours later, a pair of black vehicles slid out of the gates of Capanne Prison outside of Perugia, with Knox in the back seat. She is expected to return to home to Seattle immediately.

Both Knox, 24, and Sollecito, 27, confessed to the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007. They were sentenced to serve sentences of 26 years and 25 years respectively.

Rudy Guede, a black man who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the rape and murder of Meredith Kercher, has exhausted his appeals.

Do you feel the media has once again influenced a court to free a murderer who should spend the rest of her life in prison?

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“Bodyguard Testify’s: Dr. Murray Wanted To Go Back To The Mansion After Jackson’s Death To Remove Michael’s Bleaching Creme”

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Michael Jackson’s security guard Faheem Muhammed, who headed Jackson’s security detail, took the stand this afternoon in Dr. Conrad Murray’s involuntary manslaughter trial. He was among the first to arrive in the bedroom on the day Jackson died.

Muhammed testified that Dr. Conrad Murray was trying to revive Jackson in a bedroom of a Holmby Hills mansion as the pop star’s two older children were present before asking whether anyone knew CPR.

He testified that when he saw Jackson, he appeared to be dead. “His eyes were open and his mouth was slightly opened,” said Muhammed.

Muhammed removed the children, Paris and Prince, from the room and returned to assist another guard. He said “Paris was on the ground, balled up, crying,” and Prince “had a shocked look,” he added.

He later accompanied the children and Jackson’s personal assistant, who also testified Wednesday to the hospital. They went to a private room as they waited for word about Jackson.

Muhammed also testified that Murray asked him for a ride back to Jackson’s mansion from the hospital after they learned of Jackson’s death. The doctor made a similar request of Jackson’s personal assistant at the hospital as well.

‘There’s some cream in Michael’s room that he wouldn’t want the world to know about,’ said Muhammed. “He requested that I give him a ride back to the house so the world wouldn’t know about the cream.”

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“R.I.P. R&B Singer Vesta Williams”

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R&B singer Vesta Williams, 53, perhaps best-known for her 1980s hits “Don’t Blow A Good Thing” and “Congratulations,” has been found dead of a possible drug overdose in a Southern California hotel room.

A Los Angeles County coroner’s Capt. John Kades (KAY’-dihs) says Williams was found dead at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in an El Segundo hotel room but Kades says it will take six weeks to complete a toxicology examination to learn the exact cause of death.

By request: Here’s Vesta’s video and song “Congratulations”

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“Troy Davis Executed” – Was It A Legal Lynching?”

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Strapped to a gurney in Georgia’s death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and declared one last time that “he did not kill police officer Mark MacPhail”. Yet the state of GA still executed him and he was pronounced dead at 11:08 PM.

Davis was scheduled to die at 7 p.m., but the hour came and went as the U.S. Supreme Court apparently weighed the case and ultimately denied Troy Davis a stay.

Justice Clarence Thomas resides over the GA jurisdiction, so I knew Davis didn’t have a chance.

Outside the prison, a crowd of more than 500 demonstrators cried, hugged, prayed and held candles. They represented hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide who took up the anti-death penalty cause as  Davis’ final days ticked away.

MacPhail’s family (the cop who was killed in 1989) was relieved, they feel justice has been served.

MacPhail’s mother, Anneliese MacPhail, said in a telephone in an interview from her home in Columbus, Ga. “All the feelings of relief and peace I’ve been waiting for all these years, they will come later. I certainly do want some peace.” She then dismissed Davis’ claims of innocence. “He’s been telling himself that for 22 years…You know how it is, he can talk himself into anything.”

The McPhail family was relieved and feel justice had been served? Yet killing Troy Davis will not bring their loved one back. Why kill Troy Davis? Why not let him live out his life in prison?

Davis’ execution had been halted three times since 2007 but on September 21, 2011 his fight for justice ended when he was executed however, his family has a long fight ahead as they continue the fight and Troy’s last wishes to find the truth in this case.

Troy Davis said to the prion officials about to take his life “May God have mercy on your souls”.

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“Amy Winehouse Father Believes She Died Of A Seizure”

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With any drug or alcohol addiction, when seeking to go sober it is imperative to seek professional help and Amy Winehouse’s father believes the singer died after suffering a seizure related to alcohol detoxification.

Winehouse, who had fought drug and alcohol problems for years, was found dead in bed at her London home on July 23. Her family says toxicology reports indicated there was alcohol in her bloodstream but it was unnclear whether it had contributed to her death.

Mitch Winehouse (Amy’s father) said Friday during a taping of Anderson Cooper’s new syndicated talk show “that traces of the prescription drug Librium, which is used to fight anxiety and withdrawal symptoms of alcoholism, were found in her body.”

“Everything Amy did, she did to excess,” he said on the show, which is to air as Cooper’s debut Monday. “She drank to excess and did detox to excess.” He said he regretted that his daughter – whose most famous song, “Rehab,” has her answering “no, no, no” when told to go to rehab – was trying to kick her alcoholism without a doctor’s help. He said “the periods of abstinence were becoming longer, and the periods of drinking were becoming shorter. It was heading in the right direction.”