The Issue: Similarities between the Casey Anthony and Amanda Knox cases, including their good looks.

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Thank you, Andrea Peyser, for your frequent nuggets of common sense (“Gals Too Pretty To Convict,” Oct. 10).

I appreciate Peyser’s writings and really hope they have an impact.

Every single day I try to forget how simple people are. I need to block out the fact that some people actually think Amanda Knox is innocent.

It’s refreshing to read a shred of sanity.

Chris Johnson

Collegeville, Pa.

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Peyser hits a new low — imitating the Italian and British tabloids, whose uninformed coverage, filled with sensationalist innuendo, contributed to the injustice of these innocent students being found guilty in the first place.

Knox wasn’t convicted because she was “too pretty,” and she wasn’t freed because she was “too pretty.”

She was freed because the only solid evidence, the purported sample of DNA, didn’t stand up to scrutiny.

There is nothing murky about the case to anyone who studied it in depth.

Katherine Meeks

Manhattan

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If there is any commonality between Knox’s and Casey Anthony’s situations, it’s that there was a rush to judgment on the part of both the police and prosecution.

In each case there was either a lack of evidence or mishandled evidence, as well as no eyewitness.

Common sense dictates that in both cases the accused should have been set free.

From there, they could have been followed and wiretaps obtained of them leaking or confessing information.

This takes time and patience. And it would have placed pressure on the accused if information was indeed compiled.

But once they are locked up, the trail comes to an end, and the burden of proof is placed on the prosecution.

In both cases, the complete story will never be told.

Jonathan Shaatal

Staten Island

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I don’t blame Knox for smiling “heartily” after she was released from prison for a crime of which she was innocent.

There was not a shred of credible evidence against her.

Paul Grannis

Staten Island

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I’m glad I’m not the only one who still finds Knox repulsive and suspects she may be a murderer.

John Conklin

Yorktown Heights

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Now we are supposed to treat Knox as an innocent girl who was wrongly convicted of murder.

She’s not just guilty of defamation, the charge that required the “time served” sentence. Knox tried to put a completely innocent man in prison for a murder she knew he didn’t commit.

This case sure seems like Casey Anthony II. But, will Knox be hated as much as Anthony since her acquittal?

Michael Gorman

Whitestone

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Shame on Peyser.

Knox is not guilty. Her only crime was being an American in Italy.

Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini set her up, as he was trying to save his own name.

There is no comparison between Knox and Anthony.

Anne O’Leary

Yonkers

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Peyser is way off the mark on this one.

Knox and Anthony’s youth and beauty had nothing to do with their eventual acquittals.

Two overzealous prosecutors did that all by themselves.

In Florida, the DA overcharged Anthony with first-degree murder — even when his own medical expert couldn’t determine whether the child died from an accident or was a murder victim.

In Italy, Mignini was given a ground-ball case to rehab his reputation and his career.

He had the killer’s DNA and prints.

All Mignini had to do was wait and see to whom that evidence belonged.

But he couldn’t wait and charged two people with murder when he had no evidence that they committed the crime.

Richard Rainey

Floral Park