Here are the New York Times, CNN, and NBC. Here is Wikipedia for background.
The case has made several appearances on LessWrong; examples include:
- You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event (December 2009)
- The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour Beats a Year in the Courtroom (December 2009)
- Amanda Knox: post mortem (October 2011)
- Amanda Knox Guilty Again (January 2014)
...and what do you think that implies about whether female murder levels are lower as I claimed?
Yeah, no. Think about that a little bit. (Also, please note the irony of responding to criticism about not conditioning by claiming it would be neutralized by further conditioning.)
If the updates on different kinds of evidence would likely cancel each other, it is an argument for avoiding conditioning too hard or privileging one kind of evidence while doing informal reasoning.