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MichaelHoward comments on Knox and Sollecito freed - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: komponisto 03 October 2011 08:24PM

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 04 October 2011 11:53:11AM 23 points [-]

Several news sites (including the Daily Mail Online, the Sun, Sky News and the Guardian, and that's just the UK ones) heard the judge say "guilty" about slander, & posted the wrong verdict about the murder conviction.

It's not unusual to have more than one story ready to go, but the Daily Mail online was particularly detailed:

As Knox realized the enormity of what judge Hellman was saying she sank into her chair sobbing uncontrollably while her family and friends hugged each other in tears.

A few feet away Meredith's mother Arline, her sister Stephanie and brother Lyle, who had flown in especially for the verdict remained expressionless, staring straight ahead, glancing over just once at the distraught Knox family.

Prosecutors were delighted with the verdict and said that 'justice has been done' although they said on a 'human factor it was sad two young people would be spending years in jail'

Maybe they tapped phones in another Everett branch?

Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 October 2011 02:10:24PM 3 points [-]

It has always been suspected that they exist in a separate universe from the rest of us. I am glad to see eh hypothesis confirmed.

Comment author: Kingreaper 05 October 2011 11:43:03AM 1 point [-]

It annoys me that publishing such a deliberately dishonest story will almost certainly not be punished in any way.