This is the recent interview with Nick Gillespie. I'm Billy Binion, subbing in for Nick.

Our guest this week is Amanda Knox. In 2007, while studying abroad in Italy, she was accused of murdering her roommate Meredith Kircher,

in what the lead prosecutor claimed was a bizarre sex game gone wrong. Despite mishandled DNA, a coerced confession,

and a lack of credible evidence,

Knox was convicted and spent nearly four years in an Italian prison before being exonerated in 2015.

Her case was a media spectacle that sensationalized every aspect of her life.

I spoke with Knox about her views on true crime after her story became one of the biggest examples of the modern era,

the psychological impact of being imprisoned for something she didn't do, what she thinks

the U.S. criminal justice system gets right and wrong, and what she has to say to people who

still believe she's lying. She also shared a fascinating tidbit about her current relationship

with that lead prosecutor, something that will be featured

more in her new book free, which is currently available for pre-order. And now to the reason

interview.

Amanda Knox, thank you for talking to reason. Well, thank you for reasoning with me.

So you were arrested and imprisoned in November 2007. Two years later, you were found guilty of a murder that you would ultimately be exonerated for.

We know that wrongful convictions happen not just across the country, but obviously

across the world. So there is someone somewhere right now who is trying to come to terms with what

you had to come to terms with in those moments, processing it as we speak right here. What would you say

to that person if they were sitting in front of you? Hmm. A lot of things. First of all, and

it's interesting, I've had to have conversations like this with people before because a lot of people

who are in the midst of their own crises, whether they are the family members of the person or the

person themselves, come out, come reach out to me and ask me this specific question. The first thing

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