Can you tell if someone is guilty just by looking at them? Let's delve into the infamous case of Amanda Knox, the American exchange student who was wrongfully accused of murdering her roommate in 2007. We'll talk bad cell phone forensics, media sensationalism, and cultural biases, and how they can lead to dire consequences for those who are judged not by evidence, but by how they act differently than society expects them to.

Resources

• Amanda Knox website
• Sentence of the Court of Assizes of Perugia in the Murder of Meredith Kercher
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
• Teacher Recorded Laughing During Apalachee School Shooting May Have Been the Bravest Person in the Room
• Video of teacher laughing during school shooting
• Central Park jogger case

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