Italian prosecutors present closing arguments Friday in the final phase of American Amanda Knox’s appeal of her murder conviction. She has been in prison in Italy since 2007, when her British housemate Meredith Kercher was killed in the town of Perugia. Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of sexually assaulting […]
Closing Arguments to Begin In Amanda Knox Murder Appeal
Posted September 23rd, 2011 at 2:18 am (UTC-5)
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Forensic Experts Challenge Evidence in Knox Murder Appeal
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 2:50 pm (UTC-5)
A pair of forensic experts testifying in Amanda Knox’s murder appeal said Monday the police made a series of errors in collecting the DNA used to convict the American student of the 2007 killing of her roommate in Perugia, Italy. Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher, […]
Italian Investigators Conclude DNA Evidence Is ‘Unreliable’ in Knox Murder Case
Posted June 29th, 2011 at 3:45 pm (UTC-5)
Independent forensic investigators in Italy have concluded that much of the DNA evidence used to convict American student Amanda Knox and her co-defendant of the 2007 murder of her British roommate is unreliable and possibly contaminated. In a report Wednesday, the court-appointed experts said that DNA testing used against Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele […]
Witness in Italy Trial Accuses Knox of Murder
Posted June 27th, 2011 at 9:55 am (UTC-5)
A witness called to the appeal trial in Italy of Amanda Knox accused the young American of murdering her British student roommate. Rudy Herman Guede, who has already been convicted for his role in the killing, told the court Monday he believed that Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito had stabbed Meredith Kercher. Prosecutors have […]
Two Convicted Criminals Support Knox’s Appeal in Italy
Posted June 18th, 2011 at 8:05 pm (UTC-5)
Two convicted Italian criminals have testified that American citizen Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend are innocent in the 2007 murder of a young British woman In Italy. Mario Alessi, serving a sentence for kidnapping and killing a child, told an appeals court in Italy Saturday that a friend of co-defendant Rudy Herman Guede […]
