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• Case Updates -

  There has been a big information dump about the late Trayvon Martin which is under contention, as the nominal prosecutor wants to exclude it all from the court proceedings.
  
  I believe we indicated here previously that Trayvon Martin appeared to be a Youth in Need of Adult Supervision [...]
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• News Notes From Florida -

  During a recent Wednesday evening rush hour, two women reportedly hailed a taxi cab in Fort Lauderdale and asked the driver to take them to several locations.
  
  Then, events took an unexpected twist, when one of the women began choking the driver from the backseat while the other repeatedly [...]
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• Differently Knox -

  James Raper, who has been described as a lawyer, has posted a study in which he carefully compares differing versions of Amanda Knox's story.
  
  Does this mean that Amanda Knox is deliberately lying? No, not necessarily. There is another possibility which should be considered: that Knox may not [...]
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• In Some Little Corner of The World -

  The other day I clicked on the TV
  to catch the Noon News a bit early . . .
  
  ABC's The View was still airing. I was taken by complete surprise when the Welsh crooner, Tom Jones, arrived in the spotlight and began singing Tower of Song by [...]
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• MIA Gold Heist -

  It's the kind of crime
  you have come to expect from SoFlo:
  
  a shipment of gold bullion snatched from transit through the Miami Int'l Airport. Last seen being wheeled around a corner, then it seemingly vanished.
  
  Half a million in gold from Ecuador has become someone's much' [...]
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• A Breezy Browse -

  Matthew Walther reviews an enjoyable book of email exchanges between two literary figures: Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein at TDB.
  
  # Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple, a light and humorous beach read, is new in paperback for this summer.
  
  # An essay about Italian caffe' [...]
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• Truth or Consequences, Italian Style -

  The Prosecutor from Perugia, Dr Giuliano Mignini (JD), has filed a complaint against the Italian magazine OGGI for publishing excerpts from Amanda Knox's memoir in Italy which are alleged to contain false and defamatory claims about him, according to a new report by Andrea Vogt. John Follain has filed [...]
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• Knox: The CNN Interview -

  As part of her ongoing Media tour to promote her book of prison memoirs, Amanda Knox recently sat for a CNN Cable TV interview.
  
  In a prior interview with Diane Sawyer Knox adopted a mysterious new affectation: a suddenly swish lisp. If you were one of the viewers who [...]
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• Knox-Sawyer: Some Staircase Thoughts -

  Now that the much-touted ABC prime time interview and media blitz is over, it is an appropriate moment to reflect on what has happened here and to put some perspective on it.
  
  The Amanda Knox book of prison memoirs is not the first time the Mainstream Media has made [...]
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• Weekend Browse -

  Adam Woog reviews The Tooth Tattoo by Peter Lovesey which is set in the atmospheric city of Bath in England. Murder, string quartets, and fanatical groupies. Can Chief Inspector Peter Diamond solve the mystery?
  
  # Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes is a new graphic detective [...]
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